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| Amplifier Longevity Question @gg107 Why not send in your MD to Canada (or maybe Buffalo, NY) and have them give it a tune up. I made the mistake of sending my MD102 to fix the reception drift and got back a MD108T. The MD108T is great. | |
| musician aquarius r2r dac any good? I have the Musetec 005 that is mentioned above. I am a huge fan boy of that unit. I lent it to my friend for a month and he did not like it for the gear he was testing it with, the RAAL SR1a + CA-1a headphones and VM-1a amp. I love the 005 with m... | |
| Magico A3 vs. Wilson SabrinaX @kingbarbuda I also have a pair of Benchmark AHB2s. Again they drive them well and are highly resolving and quiet. With tubes which is my new revelation they dynamics are great and soundstage is wide. When I went and demoed the Magico A3 I to... | |
| Magico A3 vs. Wilson SabrinaX I demoed the following speakers 2 years ago when I was shopping for a speaker: Vivid Kaya 90 (very fast and similar to the cheaper KEF Reference line) Magico A3 (drivers are not the most coherent) Vandersteen Treo CT (too dark for my ears) TAD... | |
| Speakers need to be placed close to back wall. Help Get them the KEF LS60 (the Baby Blades). I will cost $7K, but it has a preamp, amps, META, DSP, and I think it also looks pretty cool and can be placed very close to the wall because of that built-in DSP. I think all the features are controllable ... | |
| Purifi v Gan amps? Great question. I was wondering about this for a long time myself. I am assuming that Purifi sounds a bit like the Benchmark AHB2 from what I read on Soundstage Global about the Purifi prototype from Bruno et al I did compare the LSA Voyager 350... | |
| Is optical mostly a waste of time versus Ethernet? Fibre Optical is the holy grail of streaming. I have 3 of the Sonore OpticalRendu's and they are fantastic at giving a very clean clear sound from your DAC. Putting a FMC in front of the OpticalRendu also improves the stream. However, I had 3 di... | |
| Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi streaming I tried WiFi streaming when I had the Matrix Audio i3 Mini Pro. That thing had so many connectivity options. I was surprised at how good the WiFi sounded. That is until it would fail and then it was a catastrophic failure and I had to do a DAC reb... | |
| Are the KEF Blade/Blade 2 Metas a Significant Upgrade from Blade? What are you guys referring to as passive and active woofers? I am assuming active meaning that there is a built-in amp to drive them. In the case, of the Blades there is no internal amp to drive the woofers, so passive. In the case of the Baby B... | |
| Help me choice Audioquest speaker cables Speaker cables to make a huge difference. For me, this improvement was more than interconnects and PC's. My first expensive speaker cable was an old AudioQuest Volcano. It brought out the missing bass with my then Revel Salon 1. I even chopped it ... | |
| Shrill high frequencies Maybe the Isotek needs more break-in time. BTW - I use a MD 108T + KEF LS50 and those 2 are definitely not bright. My Accuphase T-101 tuner is much brighter than the MD 108T | |
| recommendations for buying used balanced integrated or power amp 2k range? Benchmark AHB2 (clear neutral) D-Sonic M3a 800s (Class D) Parasound A21+ (warm and fairly detailed) LSA Voyager 350 GAN (somewhat like the AHB2) NAD M22 V2 Balanced vs. Unbalanced Analog Interfaces - Benchmark Media Systems | |
| Olivia Newton John Passes at age 73 I saw a video of her on YouTube yesterday for the 1981 Grammy Awards. Check out the nominees. ONJ nominated for MAGIC (1) Rodney Dangerfield Cracks a Joke at the Grammys (1981) - YouTube | |
| Are the KEF Blade/Blade 2 Metas a Significant Upgrade from Blade? I decided to upgrade my 2012 LS50 with a new LS50 META. I recently found my LS50 lacking after I got my RAAL VM-1a headphone amp paired with the SR1a headphones. The descriptions of the Meta sound was what made me make the switch. My SR1 has more ... | |
| Looking for a preamp with XLR connections Someone I know compared the Weiss 501 to the DAC3B and they preferred the Weiss also. I use the DAC3B with a tube headphone amp and it works better than my 'best' DAC with those tubes. So the DAC3B, while not my best overall DAC, works like a cha... |