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| What is Your End Game System? @kota1 I learned that I can fit any speaker (within reason) into a small room. Though you will not get 100% of that speakers ability to shine, as in a bigger room. So a big speaker can be fit into a small room without fatigue. It took room treatm... | |
| What is the Best Sounding Stand Mount Speaker in the world? It is a stretch to call the Yamaha NS5000 a standmount. It is an incredible sounding speaker. My second choice behind the KEF Blade 2. The Yamaha NS300 (not heard) is a standmount and suitable for a smaller room. I was all set to buy the NS3000 f... | |
| What is Your End Game System? My office system, for a small room, is now done after about cycling through 10 amps, 4 preamps, 6 DACs, 2 speakers in the last 2 years. I listen to this system all day while I ’work’: - Magnum Dynalab 108T tuner - Accuphase T-101 tuner (modded) ... | |
| Streaming To get up and running easily with, bluetooth, wifi, ethernet, tidal, qobuz, roon, and also get decent sound quality, you can get this 1 device (also a nice match for PASS). Matrix Mini-i Pro 3 Wireless Bluetooth DAC/Amp – Apos Audio I gave this ... | |
| GREAT NEWS! The Coda Technology new #16 amplifier will arrive this week My view is to stick with Class A over AB. The SPL (never heard) and the CODA #8 are mostly Class AB. I definitely could tell the difference compared to the Class A amps I owned. I recently heard the Rotel Mitchi stereo amp and again the Class AB s... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC TAS is where I go for bargains. | |
| Luxman 509x vs Hegel H390 Maybe I am miss-reading your post but the K-300i was the very first XD amp. It was the gateway drug for me to move up 1 rung up on that lineup (175XD) and MAYBE I can afford to move to the top with the new KSA i400. That amp maybe going up in pri... | |
| Luxman 509x vs Hegel H390 The ML 585 is the second favorite integrated amp that I have heard and could afford to buy at that time. My favorite was the KRELL K-300i which I bought and sold to get a KRELL 175XD stereo amp. I just sold that XD amp to raise funds to buy anothe... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... @dr-john You can use a computer to stream with amazing quality. The easier way is to buy a dedicated audio server (really a computer) as mentioned by many others on this thread and be done with. If you are a bit more technically oriented, then you... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... @kota1 If you go with ROON or JRiver you can have the very best room correction in the world. That is software-based convolution filter that runs on the ROON (or JRvier) server. Only negative is that it only works for streaming, not turntables, tu... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @jl35 I say yes. A great example was the TAD ME-1 speaker. It was $15K with stands, which was very high for a monitor. They dropped the price by $5K (I think) to be more competitive with gear like KEF Reference 1. That last about a month or 2 and ... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... @dr-john Give ROON a try and put the ROON Core computer in another room. I have my ROON Core server (a $500 PC) behind my office door next to the router. I have set up the computer to automatically boot up at 8AM and shut down at 2:30AM each day. ... | |
| GREAT NEWS! The Coda Technology new #16 amplifier will arrive this week @jaymark Congrats, that is going to be great amp for you. Not sure if you are aware but you can easily run 2 preamps into the #16 via RCA and XLR. There is a switch on the front that toggles between the 2 input options on the amp. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @jumia I put some money into interconnects for my Benchmark system. The sources to the preamp use Audience Au24 SE XLR and RCA. The speaker cable is Audience FrontRow. The cable between the Benchmark LA4 preamp and Benchmark AHB2 monos is low cost... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I am considering a $35K amp for my Livingroom system. The cost of that amp is way higher than I normally spend but I have reasons that made me chose that over a $6750 used amp in the same lineup. I also considered the phenomenal CODA #16 at $13K, ... |