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| 300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas @roadcykler What, specifically are you referencing. Please provide us with guidance. | |
| 300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas Certainly not the first pairing that would come to my mind.. (qualifying as a thought) Your listening levels and musical taste make this less than a universal pairing, but done right 300B SET can be very musical. Sabrina Impedance Curve I would... | |
| Opinions on PS Audio Direct Stream DAC (Mk 1) Does PSAudio have a return policy for used items? If so, you would only be out shipping. On the other hand, might your question be more along the lines of, “what is the best DAC that I can buy on the used market for $1800 .. and why?” | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? So, the most important marketing tool should be measuring frequency response in an anechoic chamber.. This means, once they are done designing a speaker to meet your measurement requirements, they are done with their design work. What could go w... | |
| What About LiFePO4 Batteries and Pure Sine Wave Inverters? Juan has more time listening. I’m new to off grid listening. As mentioned, I didn’t have a dedicated circuit. I no longer need to turn off air filters and lights in other rooms while listening. Also, no issue with last night’s thunderstorm and lig... | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? Congratulations, you have improved your system without starving your family. | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? @ghdprentice covered top brands and described their house sound. Now, a good size audio show would allow you to hear the top of the line of various brands and this would give you a sense of what you like. Then make note of the electronics. Many ma... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? Even though I did not find reduced dynamics with my Everest, I just put together a battery inverter system, and the dynamics, energetics and bass control are on a much different level than when the Everest was plugged into the wall. I still plug e... | |
| Do I need a phono preamp? Make sure that you have return privileges with the Sutherland. Lots of glowing reviews, but that doesn’t mean that it is what you are looking for. I tried the Sutherland - 20/20 LPS MM/MC MK2 Phono Preamplifier and found it to be very quiet, but... | |
| What About LiFePO4 Batteries and Pure Sine Wave Inverters? OK… after some mis-starts.. I’m up and running on battery. With my system, on my utility/home wiring and with my power solution, which includes an Everest 8000, there is a night and day improvement in what I hear. It might be a bigger step up tha... | |
| Do I need a phono preamp? My head hurts.. I asked myself this same question a bit over a year ago. I purchased new a McIntosh MA12000, SL1200G with Hana cartridge and I innocently asked myself if things would be even better with a separate phono amp. I then went down the... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? @bluorion Since integrated amplifiers include a power amplifier, then this discussion would be relevant, but I never had hum of any sort prior to using a conditioner. A conditioner can change/improve the musical presentation and further quiet t... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? Prior to purchasing the Shunyata Everest 8000 and a bank account’s worth of power cords, I spoke with various people and researched the topic of plugging power amps into the wall. My integrated amplifier, the MA12000 at 300 watts per channel of n... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? Depends upon the amp and the conditioner. Conditioners that allow many amplifiers to function without limiting the headroom are very expensive. | |
| Any one measured the EMI/RFI attenuation performance of audiophile power conditioners? @audio_phool I’m not well versed in power line noise and the resulting issues with a systems sound quality, but I thought that noise at 1Mhz was preferred to noise within the auditory frequencies and that such noise could be easily filtered. Po... |