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| Air Tight ATM-300R or Shindo Cortese 300B I am certain Tom will ship directly to you from the UK or I could arrange for delivery to you as I am always happy to help the brand globally. If you were merely being polite, cheers and good luck. Understand completely. | |
| Air Tight ATM-300R or Shindo Cortese 300B If you are looking for something ultra musical and very traditional sounding for a 300B, check out the Art Audio Diavolo. It is supremely well designed and is a popular choice in Europe. Aesthetically, I think it is very good looking and build q... | |
| More watts or better power ? It sounds like you have the itch to upgrade not because you need to but you kind of want to. With that, it is more pressure testing each component and finding the weakest link in the chain. You have a great system that is better than many so you ... | |
| There us a Worldwide Panic on Availability of Vacuum Tubes When tensions were higher with Russia, this was more of an issue. Things have settled a bit. I am sure that interview was conducted weeks ago. Supply is tight, but it is not even to a point where prices are rising yet. It would not shock me if... | |
| Puritan PMS 156 vs. Audioquest Niagara 3000 I have as I am a dealer of both. I am not sure I would say that the highs were more aggressive with the Puritan. Just unconstrained. Both units reduce the noise floor and corrected some wonky behavior with speakers behaving unlike they should. ... | |
| does any r2r ladder dac have standby power mode? Can't speak about either of those but Rockna R2Rs have standby. The Wavelight is controlled from an app on your phone. | |
| More watts or better power ? Do you feel that the sound from the speakers is thin? Especially at moderate volume? If your sound is lacking weight, then an amp upgrade would make sense. But this sill be very obvious. Those are very good speakers. You can change them but y... | |
| Small form factor integrateds I would check out the i7-XR and i9-XR from Cyrus. Pricier than the Rega but MUCH better amplfication. They have a very good built in DAC and a solid phono stage. $3799 and $4499 respectively. Cyrus has a variety of other half-width units that a... | |
| Preamp/Integrated with Loudness button AVM has tone controls built into their preamps that you can manage from the remote but not the classic "loudness" button. | |
| Boutique/custom vs production tube linestages I have done some testing in this space as the importer for Art Audio and one of the importers for KR. I have had A LOT of preamps here. Some from big companies. Some from little companies and in the end, it comes down to matching with your powe... | |
| Dynaudio Confidence 30 vs. Focal Sopra 2 That I understand. Every element of the audio chain matters in addition to your room. I had a customer who has a pair of Magico A3s. Sent him an amp which I had heard with them and it was too warm because he was pairing it with a very warm DAC.... | |
| Before I order the Magnepan 1.7s... Very difficult to say something is "stunning". So many speakers are "love/hate" designs and few deliver the sort of value that Maggie's do. At $2K, there is not a lot of competition beyond rectangular boxes.Looking at the Jadis speakers you ment... | |
| Rippling cones I personally have used the KAB RF1 subsonic filter. Solved my issue with rumble and even in a pretty expensive system (~60K retail), had no negative impact on sound. I have not tried another option because this one worked very well | |
| Long hiatus from audio, getting back into it, speaker/room help please Welcome to the forum and congratulations on being here. 1.7s are going to be awesome for you. They are a great speaker. Bryston is a pretty magical match with Magnepan but that is going to be a bit above your budget. If you can find a used Brys... | |
| Magico A3 vs. Wilson SabrinaX Given your pricepoint, there are so many interesting options out there. I would check out:Vivid Kaya 45Wilson Benesch VectorYG Carmel IIVon Schweikert EndeavorI am running the Vivids and Wilson Benesch Vertexes with a 20w amp in a smaller room. ... |