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| All NEW Technics SU-R1000 Reference Integrated AMP //ALL NEW TECHNOLOGIES NOBODY ELSE HAS! Isn't there an on-line course somewhere that PR people could take to sound less like PR people? | |
| It is not you, the sound really is getting worse Isn't "Tenet" supposed to be plumbing new depths in the hard-to-hear sweepstakes?/mixed metaphor alert/ | |
| Are all Audiophiles masocists? Isn't that part of the definition of hobby? | |
| Why so many Hegel's for sale? The number of used units offered for sale depends, above all, on the size of the manufacturing company and their degree of market penetration. B&W speakers are a good example; there are many others. Paradoxically, then, this would, at least ... | |
| Springs under turntable Good noromance. Just don't sneeze:) Lewm is absolutely correct. For a driver to do its job correctly it has to be held rigidly in space. Any spurious vibration of the driver is distortion. The problem really does not become critical until you ge... | |
| Transports Have you looked at the Denafrips Avatar and the various Jay's Audio transports? | |
| Buying speaker cables on-line: Is this advisable? Check out the recent thread with comments about the Cable Company.Cables on Audiogon and the other selling site are less expensive than on usedcable website.Unless you're working with a dealer and buying new, and unless that dealer has a range of ... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Rubbish! Brightness is first and foremost a function of the engineering of the recording. To some extent the venue and other "external" factors, but primarily the ADC used by the recording engineer, plus any post-recording processing. The early... | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial Here's the best solution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNNs6Blk028 | |
| All New NAD Master M33 Integrated Amp // GAME CHANGER ?.. The M33 is actually NAD's first venture into Purifi.Soon to be rendered obsolete in turn by GaN. | |
| 30w class A amp for Joseph Audio perspective 2? While you're considering Pass, take a look at Sugden's Class A amps too. | |
| The Belles Aria Signature Integrated Amplifier Obviously the output is significantly more, 125W into 8 ohms, but my impression is that the biggest improvement is in the preamp section, where he's trickle-downed new designs that were developed while he was working on the Virtuoso preamp. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Value for money is a minefield.Perhaps you can price out the components that go into a unit, but then you have to factor in all the other costs, past, present, and future that the manufacturer has to account for. I've never seen that done convinc... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming Should have got the Luxman D-10x--that would have sounded much better on your Magicos. | |
| What solid state power amp are you using with your Harbeth Super HL5+ speakers? Isn't midway or just over midway on the volume control usually an optimal position for performance of the pot? |