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| Pass Labs XA30.5 Fuse Issue/Question Problem resolved and, in what is probably a surprise to nobody, the issue was 100% foolish user error and not at all to do with any fault in the amp. I had completely forgotten (despite having owned a number of First Watt amps with the same chara... | |
| Pass Labs XA30.5 Fuse Issue/Question Thanks everyone for your responses! After learning the hard way in my early audiophile days, I’m super careful about avoiding shorts and triple checked all connections, so I don’t think that’s the culprit here. @noromance, I think you zeroed in o... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? zm 118 posts 09-02-2020 at 06:34pm Associate Dean at a top-tier research university. 3 year update: uh, still an Associate Dean, but now at an Ivy. I suppose this is progress of a sort. | |
| Product: Sonus Faber Concertino Domus Bookshelf Speakers; w/ Stands I have the Concertino Domus as well as a pair of Harbeth P3ESR. I enjoy them both for different reasons. The Domus is no slouch and, not being sealed, trades off tightness of bass for more but bloomier bass, if that works in your situation. The... | |
| What's the best EL84 amp? I had Oliver Sayes build me a custom unit based on the RH84 circuit. It's an amazing single ended pentode amp. It nicely showcases what the EL84 can do; it's hard not to like a well-designed, well-built EL84 amp. It's holographic, and I find it a... | |
| room size question. I sympathize with OP’s frustration here, as I have at times experienced a similar confusion about what exactly a deep soundstage should sound like and wondering why I can’t get whatever that is. I hope I am not being overly reductive or patronizin... | |
| Pro-Ject Stream Box s2 Ultra - Network Change HELP! @classdstreamer Wise advice, and I hope anyone with these issues who stumbles across this thread heeds it! I wish I had! And for the record, problem solved after following the procedure @fuzztone helpfully laid out - after having to purchase bot... | |
| Pro-Ject Stream Box s2 Ultra - Network Change HELP! Thanks for the advice, all. @facten I tried the steps outlined in the manual with no success, but thanks for looking that up and sharing. @gasnsteering thanks for the offer of help - I like this device a lot, but I think it's fair to say the UI ... | |
| Streamer on Office WiFi? Thanks for the replies! @yage, I do think I am going to end up using the MacBook to accomplish this. I'm not quite familiar with the procedure you describe, but I thought I might run a digital signal out to an external DAC (even though from wh... | |
| Streamer on Office WiFi? Thanks for the response! But I think I would have the same problem getting that device on the network.... and I’m not even sure there are any repeaters compatible with WPA2-EAP, at least none that I can find. It would have to connect to the WPA2-E... | |
| Please Recommend Highly Efficient Floor Standing Non-Horn Speaker Suggestions +1 Omegas - affordable, beautifully made, sound fantastic. I happily drive mine with 5 watts. | |
| MHDT Orchid v Denafrips Pontus Re: other DACs in the MHDT lineup. I have an Istanbul and I feel that it’s a real sleeper in their lineup. I love it, using the 5670/6920 converter and a 1970s West Germany made Siemens 6922. FWIW, in. my application switching to the 6922 didn’t ... | |
| Don Sachs DS2 Preamp - too good to be true? I can only speak from my own experience, and I’m not about to say or suggest that the Sachs is better than every other preamp in the land. What I can say is that in the almost two years since it’s entered my system, I have been off the preamp mer... | |
| MHDT Istanbul vs Orchid I had been using a Border Patrol DAC SEi for about a year or so, and I loved it and had no urge to change - until I picked up an Istanbul on a whim, because I had always wanted to try an MHDT unit and the price couldn’t be beat. Well, the Border P... | |
| Too much Yo-Yo Ma? I am a big fan of Steven Isserlis and he has produced many fine recordings on the BIS label. |