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| Magico A1 REVIEW Matched With A Copland CSA100 Amp ! I wonder if these speakers need a warm amp. The Soundstage rave review used the Purifi which maybe not warm. The Copeland in this review seems to have a tube in the preamp. My new gear is not warm.This review covers on issue I had with the A3. I t... | |
| Meze EMPYREAN + Benchmark DAC3B + Benchmark HPA4 @frederick21 That is a great combo. I just upgraded my WyWires Platinum from 5 foot to 9 foot for my Empy and it is a great cable. I am also done with the headphone stuff on system #1. I may buy a second HPA4 now that I sold my Bryston BHA-1 for s... | |
| ls FM radio even listenable any more? Not all FM is played from disks or digital files. The station I mentioned spins records if the DJ's have them. | |
| New Goats Head Soup @jaybe I am currently listening to disk 3. Is that live concert also messed up from your readings? It is hard to tell with concerts since they tend to be of average sound quality. Whatever, the case I am really getting into disk 3. Have not liste... | |
| New Goats Head Soup Disk 3 of this new release is great. My Stones remixes from the early 90's were some of my best digital disks. I think it was the Virgin Remasters. | |
| The psychological factor What preamp are you using?With my Benchmark HPA4 preamp and AHB2 amp set to low gain setting (the defaults) I really need to move the volume control to the far right to get high volume, just the way I like it. This combo also sounds great at low v... | |
| DAC choices -- help me cross the line Here is something on XLR vs RCA from a great audio designer.https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/balanced-vs-unbalanced-analog-interfaces | |
| ls FM radio even listenable any more? Friday night listening to some cool FM music on my MD 102 with headphones while the rest of the house is asleep. Great sound quality. | |
| Denafrips Avatar looks the goods Sounds like the same problem Magico had for the $9800 A3 speaker. It was selling fast and the price increased to $12K+ | |
| Hate fireplace in home theater room I hate fireplaces. Can you tear it down? | |
| DAC choices -- help me cross the line Is there are benefit to using the XLR outputs vs the RCA on the Tubadour . It seems to me you have to choose one of the 2 when the unit is being built. That is it does not come with both outputs. I will be connecting the Tubadour to a Benchmark HP... | |
| DAC choices -- help me cross the line How long does the tube on the Tubadour last? Never had tubes so this we be new to me.Nevermind.Expected tube life for 5977 subminiature tubes is >5000 hrs. | |
| All New NAD Master M33 Integrated Amp // GAME CHANGER ?.. Just watched the Darko review. I am also going to be doing different filter curves (like Dirac) for my setup using convolution files running inside ROON. This will only work for my digital streaming unlike the M33 which also does the analog source... | |
| All New NAD Master M33 Integrated Amp // GAME CHANGER ?.. I am waiting on the next NAD amp without all of the bells and whistles that the M33 has. A pure amp with a Purifi module. I hope it will be the next Purifi modules that will be even more powerful than the first batch which is in the M33.As I type ... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? I am in the get a transparent DAC camp as @djones51 mentioned.I got a Benchmark DAC3B which I was going to use as a DAC on my lesser bedroom system. I was going to get a much costlier DAC for my office system. However, when I added the DAC3 to the... |