zlone
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| Looking for an AMP to match JA Pulsar and Lampi From my own experience I can recommend Coda and Audionet. A Coda #8 will easily handle the demands of your speakers. I hear that the #16 is a significant step up in sound quality. I replaced my Coda with an Audionet amp, on a bit of a whim, and it... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right. Grateful Dead | |
| Antipodes Audio - K22 G4 I have been looking at the K22 as an upgrade for my Zenith MkIII. Please follow up with your thoughts once you have had some time with the new unit. | |
| Beginner in the Audiophile World – Looking for Streamer & Streaming Service Advice I am a fan of Innuos if you can swing it with your budget. For multiple reasons, the sound is good of course, but the software and support is excellent. My point is, take a look at what people say about the user interface and support of the softwa... | |
| Using external DAC with preamp with built-in DAC Yes, using the built in DAC is optional. | |
| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles Timely, as I had meatloaf for dinner last night. I left the recipe to Costco in this case, however I am capable of making a pretty decent one myself. Great points on personal tastes, the wide variety of speakers is proof of that. | |
| Upgrade ....streamer or amp? I would spend the money on a separate DAC and a good set of cables. If you don’t want the complication, then I would vote for the streamer upgrade over the amp. | |
| Parasound JC5, Pass X250.8, Coda No. 8 V2 Recommendation I owned the Coda #8 v1 and I have heard the Pass amp at a friends house. The Coda is very good, but for my experience, the Pass was a bit more open and airy. Granted this experience was on two very different systems with the Pass being fronted by ... | |
| AXPONA 2025 Interesting comments on the JA room, this was exactly what I heard as well. The bass was overwhelming everything else, and sounded a bit flabby. I have always had JA on my list as a possibility, but it made me concerned that they might overwhelm ... | |
| Axpona Suggestions I am with you on the mix of music. Too many rooms, typically speaker vendors, focus on a few tracks that only demonstrate a narrow set of their abilities. Pure vocals or electronic percussion can sound great, but do not provide the listener with a... | |
| Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget I have visited the Elac room the last couple of years at AXPONA and came away impressed. Worth a look, they have several options that fit your price range. | |
| Troubleshooting help Does the static vary with the position of the volume control? Some older gear uses resistive volume controls that can get corroded. If there are any buttons like tone defeat, try those too, if the sound varies when you press them, then there is co... | |
| Your Favorite Room at AXPONA 2025? @markalarsen Yes, I heard the Bel Canto system too. It was very good. For whatever reason, all the YG’s I heard seemed to have a hard edge to the highs. Probably just my ears, they were getting fatigued after so many rooms. If and when I scale dow... | |
| Listening Room or Components or my ears? I would invest in a DAC first, I suspect the Denon has a lot of digital noise and that the built in DAC is not the greatest quality. | |
| How to choose speakers that won't overpower your room? Thanks for the additional comments, I will be pursuing some room treatments. @sawbuck I built a custom Pi/Digi streamer a few years back with good success. I nigh have put it back in to see how it compares to the Innuos. |