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| Bryston, McIntosh, Krell or Mark Levinson @thosb The Benchmark AHB2 is what Tom Thiel uses with his Thiel, not sure which model. I used the AHB2 in stereo and mono with the Thiel CS3.7. The AHB2 is my all-time fav amp. I still have them. However, on my CS3.7 and the 2 Ohm dips the AHB2 wa... | |
| Bryston, McIntosh, Krell or Mark Levinson Check out the new LSA Voyager 350 GAN amp for $3K. I am breaking it in with the Thiel CS3.7 and it sounds excellent. It is definitely nicer than my old Bryston 7B-SST. I had that on a Thiel SCS4 at one time years ago.I had the Parasound A23 (not t... | |
| Thiel Owners A couple of things of interest with my Thiel CS3.7. My problems with George Harrisons ATMP was due to me having my music server on a PowerLine network which is attached to my Ethernet network. This was fine for a long time but some things have cha... | |
| Alternate to Benchmark Dac 1? The Benchmark DAC2 or 3 is much better than the DAC1. I have owned all 3. None of them are warm but the 2 and 3 are not fatiguing and much better DAC's. I have the DAC3 now. A really great DAC that is a bit warm is the Gustard X26 Pro. It costs $1... | |
| Dedicated Streamer/Transport Recommendations? Fibre Optic streaming | |
| Thiel Owners @thielrules Thanks for the effort to test and respond. I should have posted this here instead of the ALL THINGS MUST PASS thread. I played the track that was causing the problem more than 10x to investgate. It sounded the worst on my Thiel and not... | |
| Recommendation for Class-A integrated amp Let me give some more props for the CODA. I now have the latest CODA 07x preamp and CODA #8 amp. I moved up from the CSiB integrated which I bought on A'gon used. This gear is stuff I will never be selling. I think this 07x + #8 combo is good as t... | |
| Paradigm Persona series @milkdud Before you spend any money on speakers you should evaluate the room. electronics, speakers, and wires and decide if everything is optimized. The room being the most important in my view. You can put an incredible speaker in a bad room and... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. I am GenX. My work collogue and good friend is 22-ish. He knows more about RECORDED music than I ever did when I was his age. I listened to a ton of music when I was his age and younger. Way more than my friend listens to now. However, my knowledg... | |
| Who are GenX'ers music icons? @michaelsherry59 Let me guess, you likely have not heard of most of those above mentioned bands and musicians. Listening to Classic Rock radio can do that. It also leads to the death of Rock music. | |
| All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow @jafant My freak out that my COAX driver on my Thiel CS3.7 was damaged after listening to ATMP the last 2 days may have been too quick to judgement. Yesterday, after I listened to the song HEAR ME LORD on disk 2 of the 50th anniversary release on ... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. I am Gen X and discovered the 50 year old George Harrison's - ALL THINGS MUST PASS only this year. I am so happy I was not spinning disks when that album first came out. Discovering this today works perfectly for me.I actually feel sorry for peopl... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Your KEF dealer will tell you that there is no word on any META release. It is likely the case that there is no news on this upgrade but your dealer will also prefer to make a sale today.I would wait at least till the end of this year. The KEF LS5... | |
| Very new to high end audio - Recomendations With the LS50 you can easily add a KEF KC62 sub in the future. I run a 10 year old LS50s (can guy these for $900 today) driven by 380 watts of Benchmark AHB2 mono power in a second system. It is pretty amazing sound, especially now with the sub. ... | |
| Does anyone make a preamp with a subwoofer output? My Topping pre90 has RCA and XLR outputs. I run a KEF KC62 sub with the RCA outputs. The XLR’s go to Benchmark AHB2 monos. The Topping pre90 is a very neutral preamp. My Benchmark HPA4 preamp which the Topping replaced also has the same RCA + XLR ... |