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| List Of Small Company Tube Amps Art Audio Canor Jadis These are three excellent ones I am not seeing on the list above | |
| Moon 340i and Speakers Harbeth is a very good option. I have had a bunch in on trade from them and have generally liked them . They are incredibly popular and if you don’t get traction in this thread asking about them, start a thread asking about them and dozens will... | |
| New speakers for a new start? Couple thoughts Given that you are building from scratch, I agree vehemently in starting with speakers first. Speakers are frequently the worst component in terms of resale and visually the most prominent combined with being heavy, easily dama... | |
| Moon 340i and Speakers Like everyone else has said, those tweeters are likely the issue. I know exactly what you are describing and I didn't buy them for that very reason when I was demoing them. There are a lot of good options out there that will work very well wit... | |
| 300B, 2A3 experiances wanted I am not familiar with your amp and maybe this is tossing an unnecessary hang grenade into the debate for you but there are other, somewhat esoteric tubes that are in the middle and may work for you. Have you looked at something like the Emissi... | |
| Do high dollar mono blocks truly improve the Sound Quality over the mid tier amps I have heard those speakers a few times with Ayre Reference gear, D'Agastino gear and darTZeel or however their pattern of letters is supposed to be. For years I was "chasing the dragon" after hearing those with the Ayre gear as it is one of th... | |
| Fleetwood Sound Deville amp recommendations? I have them in on trade and found them great with my Canor Virtus Integrated and Unison Research Sinfonia integrated. Basically, lower wattage tube gear is awesome with them. I have also used Canor, Allnic and Art Audio monos with highest power ... | |
| dCS Bartok Apex vs McIntosh DA2 - Trouble Hearing the Difference You might consider the WiiM Pro a bottleneck. It is a great value at $150 but I am just guessing it may not be up to the task of giving all the information required to get everything out of the Bartok Apex. The WiiM is a great value and sounds g... | |
| Weiss 204 Dac or LTA Audio Aero Dac as an upgrade from Chord Qutest Dac The Weiss is going to be closer in terms of your current tonal balance with the Qutest. The LTA is going to be a bit warmer. If you want to warm up your system a bit then the LTA is the way to go. If you are happy with the tonal balance then th... | |
| McIntosh Sonus Faber love affair, alternatives? The obvious alternative to Sonus Faber is Franco Serblin's current lineup of speakers. They are gorgeous and IMO sound better than SFs current lineup. Given his prior relationship with SF, in some ways these are more authentic. McIntosh is goo... | |
| Wilson Sabrina X ... oh my God! and Jadis... or? The Tempo is their entry level and best value IMO. It delivers a solid 100w into 8ohms and doubles down till you trip the breaker on your outlet or I think you hit 20 amps. Point is, impedance is a non-issue. Tempo will also probably be more re... | |
| Used tube preamp $2-3K Without knowing the amps, no one can make a good recommendation. You need to look at the electrical properties of the amp and make sure you are getting the voltage, impedance and gain from the preamp that is appropriate for those amps. when you ... | |
| Wilson Sabrina X ... oh my God! and Jadis... or? Looking at the comments above, VAC does not sound solid state. It is a modern tube sound so it won't sound flabby, but is not sterile. Bigger concern is the miserable impedance values based on the measurements I have seen for Sabrina X. Min impe... | |
| Borreson X2 They are great speakers. They will perform well on the condition that they work in your room. Borreson designs great speakers but is a bit of a purist and they have minimums that need to be met for the image to come to life. This was always the... | |
| False advertising There are lots of DACs that handle DSD 512. That said, certainly not every DAC supports it. Audiobyte HydraVox has a DSD 512 mode that is quite good and I have others. Playback designs at a higher end certainly does. |