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| How to start streaming If you are happy with CD resolution you might consider a Sonos system. I use a paired network hard drive to store files and can play them using my computer, iphone or iPad wirelessly to either Sonos speakers, or using a Connect unit to input the... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? I'm around 30 years with some Vandersteen 4As (now in third system) and almost as long with a VPI TNT (now upgraded to 6 and holding). Similar history with a couple of SME V arms, a Koestu Urushi, some big Classe power amps......guess I have trou... | |
| Is this an ugly speaker? TAS cover 10/2017 Love it when they come out with something like that.Raises the WAF of my Maxx 2s about three steps! | |
| Is it possible to buy a decent tube amplifier in the $2000-3000 range? I'm running a Conrad Johnson Premier 11A and with the right tubes I am very happy with it! | |
| Best Budget RCA cables You can get good results with lower end Audioquest or with bulk Canare (e.g. Starquad) and good ends that you can make up yourself. | |
| Why do better MC cartridges cost a fortune? Miura or early Countach? Actually, earlier - Islero S, one of 100 made. Same engine as the Miura but in line rather than transverse (and in the case of the Miura with an integral gearbox housing).Synchronizing 12 Weber throats was enough to dri... | |
| Why do better MC cartridges cost a fortune? Yes - very expensive exercise to buy, audition and then sell the ones you didn't like at a discount.I tend to settle on favourites and hope never to have to replace them. I am running only two systems now and never want to replace my Koetsu Urush... | |
| Why do better MC cartridges cost a fortune? Big deal is that the increasing number of audiophiles cannot afford anything real good new and like second rate citizens have to chase things on a 'flea' market. Same in just about any consumer good in a free market economy - sellers charge w... | |
| Streaming vs traditional I ripped my entire (4,000+) CD collection in FLAC and store it on a network server so that it is accessible via software to stream to any system in the house. I use a separate DA converter (which sounds significantly better than any I've heard in... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers While I certainly like the speakers, like Sonus, that are fine furniture as well as sound reproducers, the question that always comes to mind is whether an audiophile with limited means (whether having a budget of $1,000 or $100,000) wishes to spe... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters i actually know what 16 HZ sounds and feels like....on Sundays My video system goes down to 16 Hz - but really you don't hear as much as feel at that frequency!My main audio system is 3 dB down at 20 Hz - adequate for just about any music. You ... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? Two kinds of fuses - power supply fuses and those in the signal path (output fuses).Never heard a difference in power supply fuses. If you do, great. Something else to spend money on. Maybe it's just because I use amps that run for about 20 sec... | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? I have about equal numbers of LPs and bottles of wine.Problem is that if I am drinking wine I only play digital - not willing to risk a multi thousand buck stylus disaster. | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget No question - VPI Prime, bought new. Or if you can extend anpther thousand, the VPI Prime Signature | |
| Conrad Johnson--does anyone use this brand anymore? Excellent great sounding gear.I use a Premier 14 and Premier 11a in my main system and a Premier 15 series 2 phono in the second system |