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| B&W speakers sounding very harsh? Have your run the Room correction? Audyssey often will help with those hard edges. If you haven't run it, try that and see if it helps. | |
| Amp advise :) Are you not into tube amps anymore? A 300B will add a bit of warmth while a PX25 is a very happy middle ground between a 2A3 and the 300B. I have great experience with Art Audio gear and Esoteric. I would look at the Conductor preamp and either... | |
| "Need" Roon, Bluesound Node, or or other streamer? There are two different approaches. Streamers and Servers/Renderers. A streamer (Node 2i, Naim ND5 XS 2, etc...) will allow you to control local files and streaming services. I have used a variety of these devices and like the Naim units the ve... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use AVM Evolution A5,2Canor AI 1.10These are the two that I have at the moment. I am biased toward separates but the link and being able to mono-block and link the preamp stages of theCanor AI 1.10 and 1.20 intrigues me. | |
| Best preamp with built in phono stage? Highly flexible and technologically advanced, the AVM Ovation 8.3 is a really interesting unit. You select the inputs and outputs you want. The Phono stage is very good. Not quite as good as the flagship, standalone unit but quite good consider... | |
| What Amplifiers Have You Heard In Your System and What Amplifiers Will You Always Keep Micromega M150Ayre AX-5 TwentyAVM Evolution A5.2AVM Ovation MA 8.3sCanor AI 1.10Canor AI 2.10Rega Brio RBAT Rex 2Art Audio Opus 4Art Audio QuartetCarver TFM 15CBNAD C298NAD M33Naim MuSoNaim Uniti AtomNaim NAP 300 DRChord TTobyRogue Audio HydraMara... | |
| The best tube poweramp. . What do you think about ? That is a wild speaker and your current amp is insanely good. To step up from VAC with power you could always look at something like a VTL Siegfried or something of that sort but I am not sure it will be better.An interesting option, and I mentio... | |
| Inexpensive, neutral-to-warm sounding SS headphone amp? I had a Creek that was relatively warm. Aqua DACs are pretty warm so you shouldn’t need to warm of a headphone amp. | |
| KR Audio KT150 Couple notes…I am a KR dealer and recently had a customer who had an issue with a tube that was DOA. I had them in-stock for more than a year prior to discovering the issue. KR replaced the tube, no questions asked and at no cost to me or the cu... | |
| Focal Kanta 2 vs Revel 226be vs Monitor Audio Gold 300 5g I have heard all of those and many more. Tonally, I find the MA Golds to be the warmest between the three and the tweeter helps throw a deeper, more immersive soundstage than the other two. Nature of an AMT/Ribbon vs a dome. These are great spe... | |
| Suggestions for new earbuds or similar Check out the thinksound in20 at $149. I have a pair of On1s from them and they are insanely good. I also have a pair of sony noise canceling ear buds that are awesome. The battery life stunk on mine but I hear it is much better now. They were... | |
| Large Focal Speakers Shipping Service You can either look for a "white glove" mover or you can look at freight companies like XPO Logistics that do have a white glove option. I have found some BAD piano movers. Don't assume they are competent at something like this. I would expect ... | |
| Looking to buy a quality integrated $10,000 budget. In the not to distant future, Andrew Robinson (Recovering Audiophile) is going to be doing a review of an amp I import from Canor Audio. The A.I. 1.10 that is a 20w, KT88 based, push/pull. He mentioned it around the 13 minute mark in his review o... | |
| BEL E88CC/6922 tubes - what can I expect? I just did a side-by-side test of the EHX, JJ, Gold Lions, the new Telefunkens and Siemens. Siemens were by far the best at a relatively modest price. The Gold Lions were second but were awful out of the box and needed some burn-in time. The ot... | |
| Conrad Johnson GAT - What else is there? If you can find one, a used AVM PA 8.2 will come in right around $10K depending on what inputs and outputs are in it. Beauty of AVM is the ability to tailor the output to the amps you are pairing it with. That to me as an extremely appealing.A n... |