twoleftears
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| Ayre introduces the AX-8 integrated amp Any which way, I'd prefer a "straight" integrated without any of the DAC stuff on board. With the AX5 twenty now costing 13K, surely there's room for a scaled down 7.5K model. | |
| Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 2) I heard you had some high winds there in the Netherlands recently. Perhaps that's why the Hurricane worked so well. | |
| PS Audio P5 owners--are the fans truly quiet? @hifiman5 This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for and it is extremely helpful. Thank you very much. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Years ago I was able to go to a concert of Prometheus: Poem of Fire with the color effects that Scriabin stipulated. It was definitely fun, but not ultimately necessary. | |
| Ayre introduces the AX-8 integrated amp See the photos of the internals of the QX-8 and the 80W AX-8. Hmmm.http://www.theaudiobeat.com/highend2017/highend2017_ayre.htm | |
| 5-10k budget... so many choices The Kanta's were only introduced very recently, so it takes a bit of time for them to trickle down into reviews and showroom floors. Looking at the adverts, I began to suspect that they were an expensive "lifestyle" model built for higher WAF. G... | |
| Grounding blocks, boxes and cables, what are you using? I know this isn't quite the same, but any experience with Granite Audio?http://www.graniteaudio.com/zero/ | |
| Parasound Halo Integrated Buzz/Hum The long and the short of this is that there are several variables here, and methodologically it's really hard to pin down exactly what is happening.1. AC quality coming into house varies.2. Design of particular brand/model will have more or less ... | |
| I think I've Just Seen Absolute Proof That Audiophiles Are Insanely Gullible Send the apprentice down to the store to pick up a couple of cans of tartan paint. | |
| Ayre introduces the AX-8 integrated amp Disappointing to see that so much of the engineering of the integrated is actually the "digital hub" unit. In other words it's the QX-8 with a fairly low powered integrated thrown in to provide an all-in-one lifestyle solution. And *not* the bab... | |
| Faint speaker hiss This. All brands and models of amplifiers vary, as will individual examples of each. Above all, don't go crazy throwing $$$ at this problem because you'll never eliminate it. The most quiet integrated I've ever heard is the Ayre AX-7, probably ... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. @audiotroy I've experienced more than my share of overbearing, overly pushy, opinionated, hard sell hi-fi salespeople in the course of several decades of this hobby--our little world seems to abound in them, and I certainly wouldn't go out of my w... | |
| Buyer wants copy of passport? Don't even think about sending it. It has scam written all over it. | |
| Isotek EVO3 Sigmas Although this mini-review doesn't seem to have spurred any real interest, report further adventures in power conditioning.I dragged home a Furman IT Reference 15i--50 lbs of isolation transformer. Inserted in the system, it, like the Isotek, does... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Listened to the Scriabin. The sound stage on the Ashkenazy recording on my system was magnificently set back, almost beyond the front wall behind the speakers. When the piano came in, it was like exquisite, limpid, droplets of notes from the cle... |