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| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing I recently went with the Primaluna Evo 400 with my solid state amps, great combo! if you can do without balanced. Connects the Evo 300 is your best option, I wanted the balanced so opted for the 400 model. Gorgeous, built very well, weighs over ... | |
| Single Sub Position I’ve my sub directly Behind my listening position pointing at me….works excellent! it’s also sneaky obscure! | |
| Favorite mid-tier streamer I’m on the fence as between the Hifi rose rs150B and the aurender A1000, anyone with experience comparing the two. My system contains Martin Logan classic 9’s and a sanders magtech amp, my NAD C658 preamp will be upgraded next…. | |
| Tube or solid state phono stage? I’ve the black ice audio F159 which is a hybrid SS / tube preamp, totally transformed my phono side of my system. I run ML electrostatics and the dynamics are definitely there but also wonderful midrange and bass. I had a rather average cartrid... | |
| Magnepan 3.7i amp pairing I also recommend the Sanders Magtech, it’s done wonderfully well driving my Martin Logan ESL’s and as the name implies, Magtech was built to drive Maggies. | |
| Best Audiophile/Music T-Shirts That’s Frank Zappa…on the left | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. I recently purchased the record doctor V which you were given a link to above and is very inexpensive now that they have a newer model out. I think it does a very good job, I make sure I basically have a flood coat of the solution on the record a... | |
| San Diego Audiophile group? I’d be interested as well, I’m in Rancho Penasquitos so close to “Carlsbad”. | |
| Overkill for small room I concur on room treatment, I have an even smaller room with decent size dipole speakers, adding sound treatment to various locations made a huge difference. GIKacoustics offers free room treatment advice which I found very helpful. | |
| Records and CDs I only recently upped by vinyl playback game with a nice phono preamp and new cart, that took me to a new level in sound that surpasses what before was best, streaming. I’ve a modest digital system ( NAD C658 streaming preamp), but it sounds very ... | |
| Turntable Cartridge upgrade question. I recently went thru the phonostage research and purchase process, it can be a blur! In the end I purchased the black ice audio F159 tube phonostage. Totally transformed my vinyl playback and then I upgraded to an old school Grace F9 cart with R... | |
| Seeking Legit Cartridge Expert? As to the actual original question: Peter Ledermann at SoundSmith. | |
| Need a big favor picking a preamp Curious as to why you’re moving on from the prima Luna evo 400, that’s on my radar as a preamp upgrade…. | |
| A little gift for my fellow audiophiles I copied the song list and will see if I can find them on Tidal… | |
| Phono preamp, all suggestions welcome This is a rabbit hole I went down recently as well. The widely diverse responses can be bewildering! I ended up getting lucky and finding a black ice audio f159 for under $1,000….its wrapped under our tree so I’ve yet to hear it!!! That said it’... |