1extreme
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| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more TEAC NT-505 meets all your requirements except for HDMI input. | |
| Do you listen to equipment or music. The Audiophile community makes up a super set that is composed of two subgroups, Equipment-philes and Music-philes. These subsets do have a union as many audiophiles belong to both groups. Those who belong to the Music-phile group are in it for... | |
| When do you turn off the tubes? Many tube amps have a stand-by mode in which the output tubes are off but the amp is still warm. My Cary amp have this. When I'm home and know I will be listening that day they stay in standby. When I leave the house or go to bed, everything gets ... | |
| Hey RICH Audiophiles @ghasleyI think you just made my point better than I did. | |
| Hey RICH Audiophiles The real question is why do rich audiophiles buy exorbitantly high priced systems when there are so many less expensive options to achieving equal or even better sound? Wealthy / successful people are usually focused on end state results, not twee... | |
| BUY Bryston!!!!! Add Modwright to the list. Dan usually gets on the phone himself when he is in the office and recently he serviced a SWL 9.0SE preamp that I bought used and was years out of warranty and he repaired it at cost. | |
| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? Another advantage of P to P wired ( NO pcb's) tube amps is they are easier to diagnos and repair without a schematic diagram. So if you need to have it repaired you can take it to a good local guitar amp repair tech. | |
| Catastrophic Accident! What To Do!? Please clarify. Did it "only" tip / roll over on the tubes and smash all 12 or did it actually fall off a table and really sustain some damage beyond broken tubes? If you just smashed all tubes then you should be able to find a local guitar amp re... | |
| NAD C658 DAC vs TEAC NT 505 I am also considering the NT-505. I currently own a tube DAC (Musical Paradise MP-D2) with the AKM 4490 and love the warm sound but that is likely also due to the effects of the DAC's tubes. One thing that surprised me in the NT-505 specs is i... | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? Well...after reading everyone’s responses what I surmise is that opinions differ because everyone’s system is different and cable upgrades impact systems differently. So...the old audio adage of you have to try it and see how it sounds to you in y... | |
| Anyone streaming Tidal via their Oppo UDP-203? Thank you. Yes, after further research I see that. Oppo only references Tidal streaming for it's 10x products. | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? Curious if those saying the power cable had the most impact are plugging into a power conditioner or a wall outlet? | |
| Turning off tube preamp first sends solid state amp into protection? L.O.F.O - Last On First Off | |
| Turning off tube preamp first sends solid state amp into protection? Guy walks in to his doctor's office and says "Doctor it hurts when I do this." Doctor says "don't do that." Henny Youngman | |
| Experiences moving from high-power to lower-power system Ok, this is weird. I just posted the above comment and it got logged under another's userid. Is AG having a problem?I have been on the fence on this for awhile deciding whether to go down this path or not. Never pulled the trigger because there a... |