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| Beats By Dre and Graff Diamond $1 million Headphones "Seven cent cotton and 40 cent meat, how on earth can a poor man eat?" – Pete Seeger, American Industrial Ballads | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? Audio Consultants, Evanston IL, 1970s. Simon (the owner) retired in 2019, and closed up shop. Helluva run (opened in 1967!), and it was a terrific store. | |
| $5K DAC OPTIONS Slightly above your budget, but I expect to keep my Aqua La Scala for many years to come, and prefer to the Merason DAC 1. | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Thanks to @daniel25 for the Eilen Jewell recommendation! I was not familiar with her, and like her work very much. Also well recorded. | |
| Green Mountain Audio FWIW I was a big fan of Roy's speakers, and owned two pairs over the years. I did not own the Diamante, but I expect that they would be well worth renovating. I would also be inclined to first try replacing the foam, rather than tinkering with the... | |
| Shave your CDs Note that the shaver is belt driven, thereby lowering the noise floor. 😂 | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Surprised that Claire Martin hasn't yet been mentioned. An excellent jazz singer, and her work is well-recorded. | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Lisa Bassenge Kristin Asbjørnsen Mary Stallings | |
| Would you spend you money on modest brand new car or rather buy top notch vintage one? A couple of years ago I purchased a very low-miles 2010 Audi A3. Not only was the value exceptional relative to a new version, but I actually prefer that cars were not yet so wildly over-engineered at that time. The comparison to audio gear is la... | |
| DAC diminishing returns Enjoy your brand new DAC. This is most important than anything else. Not true! It's more important that we approve the choice. 🤣 | |
| Joseph Audio Perspective2 vs Harbeth SHL5+ @prof could be very helpful, and will likely chime in. | |
| DAC diminishing returns @in_shore You find it amusing that I heard some similar characteristics in the Merason that some reviewers have also mentioned? I understand that you may have different impressions, but that was precisely the point of my post. Variables such as... | |
| DAC diminishing returns VerdantAudio’s comments are true having experienced it myself with my own system having recently owned FPGA , dac chip and R2R dacs from the likes of AudioByte Vox , PS Audio , Rockna , Denafrips Terminator 2 , Holo Audio May currently I am abso... | |
| DAC diminishing returns I read nothing but good things about the Pontus. You should do more reading... | |
| What is the best 2 channel listening chair? I have, for over 20 years now, been listening in a lounge chair made by the Norwegian company Hjellegjerde. Outstanding support, etc. It is similar to this one. |