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| Tube Preamps..... I highly recommend Don Sach's 6SN7-based tube preamp. It betters any preamp I have had in my system and I have a boatload of them. Don sells the preamp directly so they are an extremely fine value. There are lots of review of the preamp on this... | |
| Spatial Audio Hologram M4 Turbo S Speakers - A Review For a single sub, the conventional wisdom is to locate the sub between the speakers, but honestly, subs are not all that much locationally sensitive so it is no really a big deal where you locate the sub. I upgraded to the Triode Master variants ... | |
| Ayre QB-9 DAC - alternative connections? Gents,The obvious solution, which I was reminded of by my pal, is simply to rip all my CD's to my external HD and then I can dispense with the need for the Oppo CDP and alleviate the need for another DAC! I have downloaded Audirvana and Apple XL... | |
| Spatial Audio Hologram M4 Turbo S Speakers - A Review That is a great amp for the speakers. I used a REL T7 sub with high-level outputs and it worked very well. Honestly, since I got the upgrade to the Triode Master, I haven't felt the need to hook up the sub. | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) I had a stock McCormack DNA .05 Deluxe it was my favorite of all time, including tube amps. I recently got a TOTL upgrade to the same amp (Platinum) and can attest to it be much better than the stock amp, a purely stunning amp. There are always ... | |
| Reference disc player...UDP 205 or Marantz? Both are quite good, but clearly not "reference" players. Jez sayin', and I run an Oppo CDP. | |
| Diana Krall Hifiman5,You made my day with your post about getting into Karen Souza. Her music is in constant rotation in my system. I lament the negative posts in response to the OP's perfectly honest question. He digs her and simply wanted to share that a... | |
| Ayre QB-9...listening impressions Mr M,That is just what the fellas at Ayre said. Better than the QB-9 and a much lower price. That is amazing. | |
| TV gives me a headache when its on; any suggestions? I'd suggest you get a copy of "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" by Jerry Mander and you will have your solution. But wait until the Winter Olympics have concluded! :-) Cheers. | |
| Diana Krall I am a huge fan of DK, no question. She has an evocative voice and such wonderful phasing... and she plays the piano at the same time. I have all her recordings. My pal loves Patty Barber and she is excellent, but to my ears, she is too analyti... | |
| Ayre QB-9...listening impressions Gents,It is evidently mutual love for this DAC. It is even easier to love the DAC when I acquired if for $550 delivered from a guy who "is going back to analogue" with a modest Rega table. And I just sold my SOTA Sapphire vacuum TT and Dynavect... | |
| Spatial Audio Hologram M4 Turbo S Speakers - A Review Way too small for the M1T as Clayton informed me that my room was too small for the M3T and my room is much larger that yours. | |
| New Technics SL1200G turntable Thanks for all the feedback. Whitestix | |
| Allow myself to introduce...myself Hi,Welcome. Cold Duck Time is one of my all-time favorite jazz recordings by Eddie Harris. You have a nice audio rig, for sure. I just parted with my SOTA TT after 32 years to an analogue lover. My best modestly-price suggestion is to upgrade... | |
| Upgraded to Tidal today Gdnrbob,My sense is that Tidal's jazz library is not as extensive as Spotify. The difference in SQ between the two is profound. |