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| What happened to all the highend stereo shops Some of it may come down to the astronomical rent retailers have to pay compared to the twentieth century, which is the same reason you have to pay ten bucks for a thimble of beer these days. If you're a businessman, opening a retail audio store i... | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. The short answer is to move your chair closer to the speakers. Measure from tweeter to tweeter, multiply it by 0.83, and use that number to determine the optimal distance from the right tweeter to your right ear. (Jim Smith’s method, it works) Th... | |
| How buying a car can help you be a better audiophile Great post, I was thinking about this just the other day. So many parallels. Getting worked up over specs like torque/bhp or engineering decisions like inline 6 vs 2l turbo. Every design has its pros and cons, and you can go down internet rabbit h... | |
| Direct Drive I haven't heard it yet but Stereophile raved about the Pioneer PLX-1000. Add an Ortofon 2m Blue (the Red has terrible inner groove distortion) and you've got change from $1000. Although you'll need a phono stage as well. The Yaqin MS-12b (~$300) c... | |
| Audiophile metal albums Kyuss: Welcome to Sky ValleyAnd the Circus Leaves Town...Fugazi:In on the Kill TakerQuicksand:SlipShellac: At Action Park | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system Wow. Thanks for the help all. tomic601, goheelz and phcollie, that's pretty much what I'm thinking, a mixture of all your recommendations. Thanks! | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system Sorry I should have mentioned the Magnepans are non-negotiable, so a $5,000 budget for everything else. Cheers! | |
| What is the best solid state amplifier you have ever heard? The Exposure IV by John Farlowe ticked every box. Rich, fast, beautiful sound. Simple (but not simplistic) circuit with mosfet outputs and two superb, hand-wound transformers. | |
| NAD C 275 Bee It should work fine but, for not much more money you could get a Rega Brio which has a better transformer and sounds better in my opinion. You'll get a more powerful, musical, golden sound, rather than the NAD's musical, lovely, but slightly dry s... | |
| Plinius 8200 mk2, really low volume!! That's pretty much exactly the system I would suggest for friends who aren't audiophiles and don't want to spend a million dollars. | |
| If you like Schubert... Agreed. Fabulous music. I have vinyl copies of his trios with the Menuhin siblings and Maurice Gendron on EMI and they are likewise superb. | |
| DAC for 2016 MacBook Pro The Peachtree Dac*iTx would be inside your budget. It got excellent reviews. (Although you may have to get one second-hand, not sure if it's still in production) Schiit seems to have a lot of fans as well. I almost bought a Peachtree but found a v... | |
| Channel Imbalance at low volumes I had a Rega Brio with this problem and assumed it was the volume pot. Had a new pot put in and it didn't fix it. God knows what the problem was but, presumably, there are many things that can cause channel imbalance at low levels. Maybe get a dec... | |
| Problem connecting Rega Dac to Macbook 2008 Every new OSX build is different. Can you check it with a friend's laptop using a previous build, Yosemite or Mavericks etc? That will tell you if El Capitan is the problem. |