tomic601
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| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. I should have recorded it, so i shall have to paraphrase his comment from yesterday: “ The Grateful Dead taught me achieving great audio quality was about more than great specifications “ John Curl at LA / Orange County Audio Society gala where he... | |
| Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ? I saw Andrew yesterday and a few other brilliant music obsessed builders of great gear… most make an effort at the absolute best they know how to do and trickle down….. God bless them. | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. one must on an island in the stream…combine two old phrases of wisdom… Familiarity breeds contempt, but absence makes the heart grow fonder… | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system The CP is excellent. | |
| best cost no object single unit streamer/dac combo you have ever heard? Also the N America importer for NAIM are in Canada…. i find the streamer / DAC units they sell to be very neutral with excellent software stability… | |
| best cost no object single unit streamer/dac combo you have ever heard? one box to rule them all ( sorry couldn’t resist ) = Brinkmann Nyquist II and yes, i have heard it at great length in ore than a few superb systems…. | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. @retiredfarmer freaking hilarious ! Styx - Come Sail Away - the 45 on repeat….. Hopefully Sol Gabetta - Prayer is on the “ B” side……. | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I had top four Audioquest 2M Mythical Creatures series in my system for 2 weeks on industry loan. For warm yet incisive at superb value for $ difficult to beat Pegasus IMO. IF you want the last bit of detail and air but at significant cost go up t... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? remember any HiFi is a luxury good to a sealion…. thanks for learning me on the term…. | |
| Streamer question Pardo supply for everything digital - i have a stack for them for switch, NAS and ROON server / core host…. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? new Gabriel…love the dark side mix…… | |
| Looking for a great phono pre-amp in the $1000 or less range ARC = Astute Right Choice…. but OP has a pretty good list going… | |
| Passive preamps - differences between technologies Lord to visit Prague again…. pack my REF5se in a flight case and be right there… Astute read that you don’t want to give up the dynamics… In my experiments… a buffer almost always needed …. hopefully you can find a way to trial a few of tgese dev... | |
| Do people tire of audio forums? One of my mentors coming up in my career at a technical company was one of the first fifty people at NASA. Something like 8 basic rocket propulsion patents to his name..including a big one… arguably made Saturn possible…. In his early eighties enr... | |
| Do people tire of audio forums? @erik_squires i believe Java was your other one true love…. ha. Sightglass as my feeble mind would have it, … no ? |