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| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @bander that is great news! I saw their AC cable listed and it looks real nice. I bookmarked it for possible future upgrades now that I hear your positive impressions. Still extremely pleased with the Veritas Magnus interconnects. I put them in ... | |
| Matthew Bond Audio speaker cables - observations I don't think Madison Audio Lab is still around. Their website is dead and all the reviews I can find are from the 2012-2014 era. | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found Sorry I mentioned in my rambling post that I am dumb, and now I've gone and proven it to be true. Should I have dropped a link to either their website or their US Audiomart listnings? Yep. Did I do it though? Nope. Here is the link to their profi... | |
| Upgrade to PS Audio Direcstream Mk1 and Mac Mini? @mwthorne Nice, I hope you really enjoy it but also hope you get a chance to do the comparison. I'm sort of mixed about the Airlens, not sure why as I'm usually fine with dedicated quality streamers even when they cost much more. But maybe since ... | |
| Upgrade to PS Audio Direcstream Mk1 and Mac Mini? I like the MA3 much more than any of the PS Audio stuff. It's probably system dependent though. Definitely see if you can audition either or both in your own home, that's really the best way to go. If not, you probably won't have much trouble rese... | |
| How does the Denafrips Artemis HPA compare to other amps? Interesting, I haven't followed that saga, will have to read up on it. I don't love the way Denafrips moves so fast though. Makes resale value really tough if you keep a product of theirs for a year or two and now it's "old". Then again that seems... | |
| Integrating headphone system I would be very careful using speaker taps. It does work well for certain difficult headphones. Like the HifiMan Susvara and older HE6 models. They needs tons of power and so speaker taps are a good way of getting them there. For most other headph... | |
| Ayre CX-5 / CX-7 They are still around although not a ton of new developments post Charlie Hansen. The only newish product I see listed is the KX-8 which appears to be a mashup of some of their existing 8 series products, though it does seem like a pretty nice mul... | |
| From Rossini Apex to ???? If you really like the Apex but just want a little sweetening, maybe just try some different cables? Sometimes a small change can be had just by tuning the existing system instead of swapping entire components. Even if your cables are really gre... | |
| Ayre CX-5 / CX-7 It's been a long time but if I remember it right, the CX-7 was their "affordable" CD player of that era. I think it sold in the $3-4K range. The C-5 was a universal player if you remember those. That means it played CD and also DVD Audio and Super... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Thanks for the write up, this thing looks interesting. I tried a few of the older ones (2nd and 4th gen if I recall correctly) and they were promising. But didn't seem fully baked quite yet. The 6 seems like it might be more fully realized. | |
| How does the Denafrips Artemis HPA compare to other amps? Same, I was interested in their Artemis recently but decided to avoid until I see more stability with the recent changes. Their gear is usually great, but that's not the whole picture when buying something. Interested to see that new Laiv headph... | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? It's tough to say whether a power conditioner will make an impact in a different system, and if so how big that impact might be. Over the years I've lived in several homes and each one reacted differently to power conditioners - in some cases it m... | |
| New Router, New Streamer, New Questions In my experience, anything larger than maybe 1 or 2 TB worth of music really needs a dedicated server of some sort. Many of the "streamer" or "network player" devices (which is how Cambridge describes the CXN100) can accept USB drives with a moder... | |
| What’s your opinion about Dali speakers? I've heard a few of the higher up Dali models and they all seemed excellent. The entry level stuff never really excited me but that's about par for the course for that price range. If I was shopping for new speaker I would certainly try to get my ... |