vthokie83
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| Help With New Preamp Decision hsounds, I did find an ARC 5SE, and the owner says it has the "brown" board.....not sure if that is a newer or older version, do you happen to know? | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision From the Backert website: "Fully Balanced XLR Input and Output Shown below is the rear panel of the Rhumba 1.2 Extreme. The Rhumba 1.4 is very similar, except that it has two fully balanced XLR inputs and two fully balanced XLR outputs." Hfihan... | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Soix & Woots, I thought about older ARCs.....but that brings it's own issue with older preamps. If I did buy used, it would probably be a newer product like Backert Rhumba Extreme. I like the idea of buying new, or newish. I believe all of th... | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Also I do not tend to listen to jazz, classical or metal. More blues, rock, some grunge, southern rock, singer song writer, 80s/90s think Depeche Mode or the Cure. I find I listen to more live recordings and acoustic versions (Nirvana MTV Live) | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Soix, I want more transparent to neutral....with a touch of tube warmth, quiet with a low noise floor, detailed clear instruments, quick dynamic fast presentation....no bloat, wide layered sound stage, a preamp that provides that "it" something t... | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K Might also audition Yamaha NS5000s. Have heard them once for a bunch of hours driven by Gato equipment (preamp and monoblocks), mostly playing rock and they sounded glorious.....I've just never heard them in my system | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K Volti or JBL, but also a second amp; solid state. | |
| DAC upgrade OP, there were some good comments on the Node also. I have a Node 130, with an LHY linear power supply $279. Made a nice improvement in SQ, darker floor which helped bring out extra detail.....and a relatively inexpensive tweak. The previously men... | |
| DAC upgrade +1++ for Denarfips Pontus II 12th, IMO best DAC under $3,000.....Yet it costs only $1,800. I have upgraded several components along the way, but never thought the Pontus was the weak link. The Pontus is a wonderful, musical, fun, enjoyable, ter... | |
| Aurender N150 vs N200 blisshifi, Thank you for the information, and I understand the warranty information. However having had the N200 and N10 here at the same time, I will say that in my system (with my equipment which includes a Denafrips Pontus II), the N10 outclas... | |
| Aurender N150 vs N200 The point that others have made is the N200 is the better streamer, and yes one day your Pontus II DAC may need an upgrade. But that is the good news, not bad. The fact that the N200 will better your DAC at some point, means you can upgrade the ot... | |
| Young audiophile metal head looking to level up speaker choice Killingforcompany, I'd suggest you find a JBL dealer, bring your music, and try them for yourself, my guess is that they would have several models available and there are several hundred JBL dealers out there | |
| Young audiophile metal head looking to level up speaker choice That's true, that's another $300......though I usually assume the stands are not included for any speaker | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade Look for a used Aurender N200 (can be found for about $4,500 or so) or a used Innuous Zen MKIII (around $2,300) or a Zenith MKIII (around $4,500)......those would be nice upgrades IMO | |
| Young audiophile metal head looking to level up speaker choice +!! on the JBL 100s, great all around speaker and definitely a rock speaker....check around on price though, Music Direct and Sound & Vision have them for $3,300 per pair |