twoleftears
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| Comparing Bel Canto and Schiit DACs Didn't they divide off into Bel Canto and Wavelength? | |
| Dedicated Red Book CD player vs. "Universal" type players.... Check out James Tanner's various pronouncements on the design parameters of Bryston BCD-3 over on AudioCircle. They eschewed a digital in, SACD capability, etc. etc., in order get Red Book as good as possible, which according to them isn't possib... | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera There are two factors here. The speed with which products get reviewed. (Time of product launch to time of review publication.) And whether a brand/product gets reviewed at all.The frequency with which Musical Fidelity appeared in the pages of ... | |
| KT120 back to 6550 @salectric that was pretty much my experience too. In a tube integrated, you can take care of the sweetness factor with the pre-amp tube(s). | |
| keeping perspective on evaluating improvements P5 dropped off at Fedex today.Ordered up a Granite Audio 502 to give that a try.Currently running (oh the shame!) a Niles iPower, what with the power cuts we had yesterday with the wind. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados +1 to pianist recommendations. I also like Vladimir Ashkenazy.For earlier keyboard, Andreas Staier is really hard to beat. Top choice for me. | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? What a luxury to start with a clean slate... and a respectable budget.Let's face it: most people, most of the time, have some "heirloom" components that they bought or were gifted, and they start out on the upgrade path, one or two items at a time... | |
| KT120 back to 6550 Out of curiosity I swopped in a matched set of Genelex Gold Lion KT88s replacing the T-S KT120s. Perhaps a hint more of sweetness, but definitely a loss of authority, that I liked so much to begin with. Went back to the 120s soon after. | |
| Audio Physics old vs new There's a before and after moment, around 2004, when Joachim Gerhard left/was forced out of the company and founded Sonics by JG. Rather like Sonus Faber, there will be at least some difference in models and iterations prior to/post 2004. | |
| Phasing If these are not the same set you heard at the store, they could be wired incorrectly somewhere inside. Try and buy or borrow a test disc (like Stereophile #1), with in-phase and out-of-phase tracks, which make the difference very clear. | |
| It's Simple What's the accepted unit of measurement for hysteresis? | |
| Puzzling preamp problem Swop the cables over connecting the pre- to your monoblocks. What happens then? | |
| Need some Amp help - a little new to properly powering speakers @moskaudio What one needs to understand from the get-go, is that the number of watts is only one part, one quite small part, of the story. For starters, take a look at the current output rating (not all manufacturers publish) and the damping fact... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Anybody tried the Denafrips Venus? Seems to fit more or less in this price bracket. | |
| DENAFRIPS DAC ---- Owner Impressions, Feedback, General Discussion, Questions and more.... In some respects the Venus looks like it might occupy the sweet spot in the brand line-up, yet curiously we're hearing very little about it. Any owners out there? |