vthokie83
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| Service After the Sale Marco1, Here's hoping. They are selling a commodity and a service, if you don't add anything to the equation why would I pay your mark up? My ideal dealer: friendly, courteous, knowledgeable, and honest staff. Trade up program. Loan or try out pe... | |
| Does the Audio press ever excite you anymore? OP, I find the print media to be almost useless, except for Stereophile and TAS. I do watch youtube reviews, but take them with a heavy grain of salt....for me I only use them for finding new products. My purchase pattern usually is (and yes I k... | |
| Service After the Sale In my case I have purchased products from companies that have a "direct to consumer" distribution model; but I definitely researched their pre-sales support and their repair models. +++1 for Alvin Chee and Vinshine Audio (Denafrips distributor in... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations ++1 for DHLabs and Zavfino, excellent products for the money......both should be around $300 to $400 for a pair | |
| Best set-up under $20K My first recommendation would be getting rid of Airplay streaming through the Hegel. My assumption is the Hegel is a really good amplifier and has plenty of power, but can't imagine the streamer is world class. I'd add a high end streamer since y... | |
| Recommend me a DAC under 3k It looks like your Wiim Pro Plus, has coax and optical digital outputs.....so no need for a DDC right now. You may want to consider the DAC input options, if you plan to upgrade the Wiim in the future.....one that does have USB outputs. +1 for R2... | |
| dac and streamer or seperates Definitely separates, but you can always start with a great streamer first and see if you are happy with your current DAC.....if not then upgrade. I a higher end streamer will definitely impress though | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Rockadanny, The more resolving the system, the more relevant a good cable choice is.....your system looks high end (sorry I've not heard your components), so I would add a nice power cable. No need to go nuts, but a nice DH Labs, Zavfino, Lavrica... | |
| Driver Tubes 6922 Tonydennison and Rodman99999, Very true for rectifiers as well | |
| Driver Tubes 6922 tksteingrabe, Yes you are correct, I should have written "12AU7/6DJ8 families"....did not mean to confuse | |
| Driver Tubes 6922 All, In my last post I meant to say "New York OR Heerlen Holland plants". Also in some Amperex tubes, the tube printing is smeared or even partially wiped off and that is not abnormal. The printing is easily damaged during normal handling. Tonyd... | |
| Driver Tubes 6922 Tonydennison, It is not unusual to have a tube fail soon after install, it's part of the deal using 50, 60, 70, 80 year old tubes......I suspect shipping has a lot to do with the failures. Most important is to have a vendor who stands behind his ... | |
| New Product RE: Denafrips 12th Anniversary Edition Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC) Many of us use DDCs, a lot of them Denafrips Iris/Hermes DDCs. The benefit is most apparent when used with a modest streamer, some of that is that the DDC then allows I2S to be output to a DAC. I use a Bluesound Node 130 (with a LHY LPS), USB into... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps Russbutton, agreed you can save a good chunk of money building the VTA amps yourself....and definitely learn a lot about tube amps in the process. Rodman and papafrog, for me tube rolling has been the best part of owning a tube amp. I've tried an... | |
| What DAC to buy? ++++1 I would buy the Denafrips Ares 12th anniversary over the Denafrips Ares II/Enyo, a few reasons: (1) The Ares 12th has a full milled aluminum chassis versus a steel chassis for the Ares II/Enyo (2) OCC copper power plug in the Ares 12th, vs... |