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| Best Live Album Ever... Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall. | |
| RIP Lee Weiland His wife has cancer, at it happens, and Locus was the sole source of income. This is tragic beyond Lee's passing. | |
| Best steak to eat while listening to your rig? Many steak connoisseurs consider the ribeye to be the best combination of tenderness and flavor, and I heartily agree. I was raised in Buffalo on New York strips, but I like ribeyes just a shade better. | |
| Active monitors, 3k used, great nearfield sound I appreciate all the suggestions, everyone. I'll do some auditioning and make a decision. Thanks for the input. | |
| is "audiophilia" another form of conspicuous consu I think it's insufficiently inconspicuous to qualify. As opposed to say, a Porsche 911 that everyone sees you pulling in and out of your driveway all the time. | |
| California Audio Show-why I hate audio conventions @Shay: +1 | |
| Who stay with Merlin longest time I'm at the nine year mark with no facelift or upgrades of any kind. I guess I just like my MM's as they are. | |
| Benchmark VS Mark levinson 36 DAC ????????? I agree with Knghifi...I have the Parts Connexion RCA mod, and found it to be a legitimate leaps and bounds improvement over stock. | |
| HDMI cables are all the same? The differences are subtle, to my eyes. I tried Blue Jeans, Monoprice, etc. I wound up with Wegrzyn at considerably more money, because it resolved background details better on my Panasonic plasma. Basically less digital noise and more precise ima... | |
| Opinions on what to upgrade first; speakers or DAC Opposing view: make changes downstream first, so that the highest quality signal you can afford is what's coming into your current speakers. | |
| Levinson 360 vs Benchmark Patrick, that's exactly right. It amounted to...I was personally willing to take the hit, and I enjoy the gear more as a result. At 5x the cost of those mods, I wouldn't have been willing to take the hit no matter how significant the improvements. | |
| Levinson 360 vs Benchmark I know it's hardly scientific, but I was able to get my hands on a non-modded unit and A/B with my modded version. The modded piece outperformed somewhat, but admittedly no leaps and bounds. Primarily, the digital "edge" that many associate with t... | |
| Levinson 360 vs Benchmark http://www.partsconnexion.com/t/clearance/new_clearance.html | |
| Levinson 360 vs Benchmark I'm listening to my Benchmark as I write this. I went with an MIT power cord, Kimber interconnects, and a Locus USB cable. The quality of the DAC1 took leaps forward when I had Chris Johnson of Parts Connexion modify it for around $500. So I'm sti... | |
| Benchmark DAC-1 Get The Most Out Of Your DAC-1 You're right, Viridian...my bad. Got my blasts from the past mixed up. |