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| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? @boomerbillone I’m glad that you like your Project Prebox s2... I am using the M500 now. In my system the Project was a bit on the lean side, but to be fair, I am using the M500 running balanced and I tweaked the filters to my liking. I did not to... | |
| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? I see @loomisjohnson recommended the SMSL SU-9. I emailed SMSL about the differences in the SU-9 vs the M500. SMSL replied that they have tested them side by side many times and there is no audible difference. I suspect that there is something but... | |
| Major Contradiction, Can you replace foam surrounds with Rubber Surrounds on Speakers ??? I'm an old speaker guy and can tell you that ANY speaker recone is a guess in a sense. If you have ever re-coned many speakers, you may notice that you get one surround and it is thin and wimpy, you get another and it is thick and stiff. Anytim... | |
| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? I have heard many of the Dac's mentioned above. These are all nice sounding Dac's and some good recommendations. I have had a dozen Dac's in my system and am just stunned with how the SMSL M500 sounds. This little Dac is like $400 and has clear... | |
| 4 amplifiers to drive 1 pair of speakers? @thegreenman.... You are correct to worry about Impedance dips. It does somewhat matter about where (what frequency) they are, but the real problem is to try to get an impedance/phase sheet on your speakers. Normally impedance dips are accompani... | |
| What are Your Favorite Tweeters? www.bliesma.de/products.html 34A or 34B | |
| Is louder better? Louder to be louder is not better, but I certainly find that getting volume in the area to reproduce the event as recorded is most enjoyable. No doubt that is is nice listening at lower levels if your system has the resolution to reproduce low le... | |
| WHO ARE THE BEST SONGWRITERS IN THE LENNON McCARTNEY Traddition? Thanks for showing us your favorite music with those videos. I'm sorry, but based upon that. I'm not sure what I might recommend. Possibly a good psychiatrist. No Really, I'd be interested in a current artist that recorded with a Lennon/McCart... | |
| help on changing capacitors @ausaudio Thanks for the info. I probably have in 150 different caps in my shop right now. My quotes as I thought that I eluded to are about the type of caps in general. I have a few different PIO, they seem to share a rich tone quality, but ... | |
| help on changing capacitors Those look to me to be alum foil paper in oil.... I believe the miflex referenced above would be slightly better Paper in oil. Jensen still makes a copper foil, but I’m not sure its available in 1mic and I don’t think that they are paper in oil...... | |
| help on changing capacitors Digi-key shows Jensen caps... Not sure that they will have this series, but any Excellent Film cap will work... A Copper foil, A film and foil. Maybe a polystyrene.... These are inexpensive but still sound great with enough burn in time. Ebay se... | |
| Reccomend a good preamp for me. I would personally prefer the PS Over the Pass. For me the Pass Lacks just a bit of Dynamics... I would also take a look at the SST Ambrosia Preamp.... It will sound very close to the PS, but give you a bit more flexibility and the convenience of... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! If you can get this for under $500, its a no brainer.... Of course unless everyone that see's it on here bids against you. Audio Refinement Complete Integrated Amplifier: Silver Version | eBay | |
| Are "vintage" DAC's worthwhile, or is this a tech that does not age well I have found that at least on the few dacs that I have tried that you can put a very good modern USB to SPDIF converter in front of it and get excellent up to date USB performance. Also, I purchased a SMSL M500 Dac and was pleasantly surprised a... | |
| Are there any preamps that can work with 2 amps and a sub woofer? SST Ambrosia 2 single ended, 2 balanced |