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| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? The Benchmark HPA4 (same as the LA4 + headphone amp) is the best audio piece I have ever owned. Just love it. BTW - Does the new Absolute Sound have a review of the Yamaha NS5000? I do not see it online. For my System #2, I am going to be hooking ... | |
| Should Equalizers make a comeback? I have been meaning to post this now for 10 years. Sorry for the delay. Equalizers are actually popular today but they are now done in software vs hardware. I listened to the following talk a few days ago and they brought up equalizers in the disc... | |
| Rush and Quantum Physics https://www.thestar.com/sports.html Geddy is at the baseball game today in Buffalo. | |
| Recommendations for next headphone Last night I had a problem with my work. So I started some work at 9PM and finished at 5AM this morning. All that time I was listening to the Meze Empy with WyWire Platinum XLR. I was streaming the "1976! Songs of the Year" playlist on Tidal. It w... | |
| Recommendations for next headphone I have no clue what my Meze Empyrean driver type is but it sounds amazing with both my Benchmark HPA4 and Bryston BHA-1. I listen for many hours each night and now afternoons too (no 2 channel amp any more). I used to get fatigue and hated headpho... | |
| Best Speakers for a small Nearfield room, budget at most $10000 (used is also ok) Floorstanders (with manageable bass for small room):Focal Kanta 2Vivid Kaya 45Paradigm Persona 3F Monitors:Magico A1 (I liked the A3 but not heard A1 yet)Yamaha NS3000 (have not heard the NS3000 but loved the NS5000)TAD ME1 (have a lot of bass)KEF... | |
| Can anyone recommend a good streamer/DAC? Push your Ethernet and server noise to Fibre Optical cable and lose the noise. Lot more talk about this nowadays. The Lunin X1 is the only DAC that has direct Fibre input on the DAC. I think a lot of networking streaming products become obsolete w... | |
| DAC Measurements vs Actual Experience @frederick21 I have the HPA4 + DAC3B with Meze Empy and I got some incredible headphone sound with them. Better than with my second Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp. I also use all XLR (Benchmarks) and yesterday ordered the Benchmark AHB2 amp to get my... | |
| Paradigm Persona: what do you think? The following reviewer has some interesting observations on how to connect the speaker wire to the Persona’s (see section CONNECTION METHOD). https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/loudspeaker-reviews/loudspeakers-passive-reviews/paradigm-persona... | |
| Headphone amp + DAC + Volume + ROON READY With Foobar2000 are you playing lossless music streams for free? You must be playing your ripped CD's for free.After 4 years of using ROON my lifetime license is essentially free for me now. However, even if I had to pay I would for the following ... | |
| Spade vs. banana plug Two companies that place a high priority on measurements, Benchmark and Purifi, use SpeakOn connections at the amp end. I am going to try SpeakOn terminated speaker wire with the AHB2 amp that I just bought. I will compare them with my existing Au... | |
| Thoughts on choosing an amplifier I just bought the AHB2 for the second time. I want to try the BENCHMARK SPEAKER CABLE - NL2 TO BANANA - 2 POLE https://benchmarkmedia.com/products/benchmark-speaker-cable-nl2-to-banana-2-pole?variant=16562684423 I know a few people have trie... | |
| Need copper speaker cable recommendations $300 ish Audience Ohno are pretty good.https://audience-av.com/cables/ohno/ https://www.thecableco.com/cables/speaker-cables/ohno-iii-speaker-cable-pair.html I have a pair of these gathering dust in a storage box. | |
| Paradigm Persona 3F Owners Funny you should post on this thread. I just looked at this thread yesterday circling back on room size for the 3F. I am building out 2 systems at the same time and have not got to the office speakers yet, but the 3F and TAD ME1 are now the top co... | |
| DAC choices -- help me cross the line @in_shore Whatever dac you choose you need to look into these one box marvels , Innuos Phoenix or Ideon’s Master Time , it would be far and away the best 3 grand you’ve spent. Are these products you mentioned Digital-2-digital converters, like th... |