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| Looking at Focal Sorry, my mistake, I thought the Kanta 3 was $7/pair, not each. | |
| Looking at Focal At that price, consider the ATC SCM40 passive.I would never recommend buying a speaker without listening to it first. | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k Herron Audio VTSP-360. | |
| A warm DAC? rvpiano: No, just the Yaggdrasil. | |
| A warm DAC? Interesting comment about the Gungnir besting the Qutest. I've owned both and my impression is exactly the opposite.At the Arizona Audio Video Club DAC shootout last August (well designed, level matched, 0.5 seconds between selection switching usi... | |
| A warm DAC? Black Ice Audio Glass FX Tube DAC DSD. | |
| Affordable US Made Tube Pre/Power or Integrated Options Black Ice Audio, formally Jolida, has moved at least some of their manufacturing to the US.Their vacuum tube integrated amps offer great sound, tremendous value and come with remote control. | |
| Best DAC for around $2,500 or less Chord Electronics Qutest. | |
| stand-mount speakers for classical music The passive ATC SCM20SL is on the Lone Mountain website. Retail is $6499.The active version. SCM20ATSL, is a tower, mentioned but not pictured.http://atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/loudspeakers/classic-series/scm20/Any Spendor model would also be a g... | |
| stand-mount speakers for classical music ATC. | |
| Non Analytical Sounding DAC Upgrade- Budget $1,500 or less BTW, I agree with the previous Mojo comment; definitely the best DAC under $500. | |
| Non Analytical Sounding DAC Upgrade- Budget $1,500 or less Regarding the stock Chord Electronics Qutest power supply. It may work well with the Qutest but injects an enormous amount of noise into your AC electrical system. I didn't detect an improvement in sound when I replaced it with an ifi iPower linea... | |
| Advice on setting VTA The analogmagik system is "A Scientific & Repeatable Method To Calibrate: Speed, Wow & Flutter, Azimuth, VTA, VTF, Anti-skating, Loading, Gain, Vibrations & Resonance Frequencies." to quote from their website. | |
| Add an external DAC. Make my Oppo UDP-205 a true top player I would replace the Oppo power supply with a linear power supply and use it as a transport. A good digital coax cable like the DH Labs D-750, though an ifi audio SPDIF iPurifier into a Black Ice Audio Tube DAC, Chord Electronics Mojo or Qutest DAC... | |
| Efficient, affordable speakers for SETs? The Klipsch Reference Premiere line of loudspeakers are an excellent, low cost option.Pi Speakers offers various high efficiency speaker kits that are also an excellent, low cost option. |