twoleftears
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| What other hobby... Even though color is the mainstream preference, monochrome may be making a comeback...Remind you of anything in audio? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados His daughter Viviana is also a pianist. I wonder how much of the genius carried over.In other news, Lupu in Schumann / Humoreske, Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana is the best I've heard so far; his touch and the sound he gets from the piano seems to... | |
| The Belles Aria Signature Integrated Amplifier For the moment Johnny at Audio Connection can tell you about them. David B. is too busy cranking out units, for enthusiastic customers... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes, that's the Arrau disk I have. Lupu will be up later today. | |
| What amp to match with Spatial Audio M3 Sapphire open back speakers Take a look at the Marantz K1 Ruby. This has a sonic signature that I think you'd enjoy. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Look at photos of the insides of the four Denafrips models. There are very distinct and noticeable differences. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados After listening to a lot of Chopin and Liszt recently, I thought I'd return to Schumann.As if today:Perahia, Op. 6 & 12Schiff, Op. 2, 18 & 20John Bingham, Op. 13 & 17Arrau, Op. 9, 15 & 82.So far enjoying the Arrau the most. Any re... | |
| Alternative speaker suggestion to B&W 805d3 If you can, read through this thread, and see where the OP ended up.https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/speaker-shootout-update-aggressive-treble-eliminating-some-fairly | |
| If a speaker stand is mass-loading, how much does it matter what they're made of? I saw several models from Custom Design when I was in England a couple of years ago. They struck me as extraordinarily well made. | |
| Old vs New, an experience with Dynaudio. I heard the Contour 60's and while they were competent speakers, there was nothing outstanding to their sound. In other words, they didn't do anything that other speakers can do, a few of them at a few thousand dollars less. Their mistake to my ... | |
| Floor standing speaker recommendations new or used, $10,000 and under Very good thread on the A8s on Audio Circle in the Planar Circle. | |
| Alternative speaker suggestion to B&W 805d3 The middle front small tube makes the biggest difference. You could have gone the whole hog with Mullard NOS for that one. Having owned the Cronus II for a while and having swapped in new power tubes, I don't believe you'll achieve the kind of s... | |
| What amp to match with Spatial Audio M3 Sapphire open back speakers You'll find useful threads and recommendations over on AudioCircle. | |
| ... Should I be concerned? It kind of depends on the quality and performance of the volume pot in your unnamed tube preamp. It might perform much better at or beyond its midpoint. So the improvement here might outweigh the degradation of the signal at the amp. Only way t... | |
| Schitt Freya+ Preamp into Intregrated Amp (no preamp inputs) ???? Wasn't it Elizabeth who daisy-chained preamps?If that 95dB figure is authentic (many manufacturers fib) your tube amp might do an excellent job. |