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| Best Location for Best Cable Thanks. The Benchmark StarQuads are very good cables and I would not have looked at anything else except for the fact that I had to get my Audience cables upgraded due to damage of the AU24 and AU24e originals. They are a tiny bit better than the ... | |
| Speaker cables under floorboards - a good or bad idea? I would get a preamp + amp combo that supported long runs of XLR cables. You could stuff those cables under the floor board easier (with respect to sound quality) than the speaker cable. I know the professional grade Benchmark StarQuad XLR that I ... | |
| Recommendations for next headphone Thanks. Yes, I was referring to the Meze Empyrean. The Abyss Phi TC was another I was looking at but I am under the impression that it is a bit finicky with placement on the head. I move my head around a lot to view 6 office computer monitors and ... | |
| Recommendations for next headphone @speedbump6 How does the Empy rate in your stable of phones? I am thinking of getting a second headphone. So far the Susvara has been recommended to me by the person would recommended the Empy. Love the Empy so I am assuming the Susvara is also gr... | |
| Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store I have been to this store 3 times and it is one of my favourites in Los Angeles. They have amazing gear and were very pleasant to deal with. I demoed 2 speakers there the first time I went. Sunil wanted me to hear a much more expensive Wilson Alex... | |
| More money toward better speakers or a better DAC? It is the Benchmark DAC3B in an all Benchmark system, DAC3B + HPA4 + 2 x AHB2 + Benchmark speaker cable + Benchmark StarQuad XLR (for all the Benchmark connections). My analog sources are connected by Audience AU24 SE XLR’s and RCA’s. I sold some ... | |
| External DAC? The Benchmark DAC3 HGC sounded very good to me. The Benchmark DAC3B (no volume) with the Benchmark HPA4 preamp sounds even better. Both of these DAC3's have the same conversion engine. The volume control on the HPA4 is one of the best and it is su... | |
| Decent tuner with a headphone output and volume control I do the same thing as you in my bedroom system. I used to have a Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp with a SACD player and the Sony XDR-F1HD. I just recenlty sold the BHA-1. I get a great station on the FM dial, which sometimes plays vinyl too. The same... | |
| More money toward better speakers or a better DAC? People who say a DAC is for 3 - 5 years must be people who like to rotate gear. If you are into the music more than the gear a DAC can last you as long as you want. My $1580 DAC that I have now will last me until I die or it dies first. Music soun... | |
| Thiel Owners I think they must have hired the Audiogon developers to help them. I called the 2 contact numbers listed and both do not work. | |
| More money toward better speakers or a better DAC? A low cost DAC these days ($1500 - $3000) is of incredible quality. Even reviewers of $15K+ DACs are saying this in their reviews, such as in a Bartok DAC review I just read (and others such as Jeff Fritz of SoundstageUltra.com). If you have speak... | |
| Main Audiogon site barely works? I guess the developers of this site said "let's see what happens" instead of running some staging tests before deploying to production.People selling gear on this site just lost a couple of days of paid ad views. | |
| Removing a ZERO from the price of amps @ddafoe That c-298 is what I have been waiting for the second system. I wonder what the sonic sacrifices are in mono block form.I also have a new AHB2 and love it. Your comparison with the PASS X250.8 seems like comparing 2 totally different soni... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? The GAIA can even accept multiple inputs, so a many-2-many distribution point.My interest in it is to try different DACs into the system while comparing against my reference Benchmark DAC3B. These DACs would not measure the same so their will be s... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? @djones51 Have you paid attention to the new Denafrips GAIA DDC unit that recently came out. From a connectivity stand point it would be very convenient for me. A single Sonore microRendu connected to a GAIA which is then connected to a multiple D... |