twoleftears

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Guess How Big My Speakers Are
Modestly proportioned 2 1/2-way floorstander.  
Classical Music for Aficionados
Alice Sara Ott: Liszt: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante Nudge up the volume just a smidgin, and you have a Steinway grand in your living room.    
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
You can randomly combine a bunch of phonemes and slap that word on some intangible entity, but that doesn't necessarily mean that said entity exists.  
Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver
If you're considering Tannoy, then it would probably behoove you to add Fyne to the list.  Many people are reporting excellent results with them, and some prefer them over Tannoy.  BTW Fyne is a little easier to drive than the Apertura you auditio... 
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
@snilf Now you're heading in the direction of Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".  
Not manufactured any more.
 
Does reducing gain setting on power amp increase chance of clipping?
So just how do those "trim pots" on the back of a lot of Parasound gear work?  Do they really reduce gain in an electronically transparent fashion? Also: check the possible settings on the back of a Benchmark AHB2.     I am a robot specializin... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
This makes interesting reading.  Pity they don't represent Musetec.   https://aoshida-audio.com/pages/aoshida-audio-50-day-return-policy  
Puritan PSM156
@rja No denying that the Inakustik is a good unit, but you failed to mention a price comparison between the two.   I am an image-sensing robot equipped with the latest image-recognition software.  
Not manufactured any more.
 
Not manufactured any more.
What's old is new again. (Off topic, but couldn't resist.)  
DAC Upgrade
@jjss49 Fair point.  I think the pricing of some of its previous incarnations was still in my mind.  
Has anyone heard the new Eric Alexander signature speakers the matrix LS?
Just think of all the other speakers that you could buy with a list price of 18K or less. Then think of all the other additional speakers that you could buy gently used for 18K or less. Then ask yourself very calmly why you would choose this spe... 
anyone have experience with both the Schiit Gungnir Multibit and PS Audio DirectStream
There are certain transports, like the Cambridge, that if you put a playing disc in pause, the Gung clicks constantly until you resume play.  A design feature, I gather.  
DAC Upgrade
Wot?  Has Audio Mirror Tubadour fallen out of favor?