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| Top music streamer for 2019? Aurender N10’s? Here is our take and we were Aurender dealers until recently. We started selling Aurender when they came out and we had done demos vs the Mac Mini and moddified Mac mini and the difference between the two devices was quite audible, with the Aurend... | |
| Vandersteen 7 mark ll or big Kef blades Here is a perspective from a Kef dealer who has the Kef Blades and have used them at a few area shows.The Kef Blades will match of equil any $60k-$100k set of speakers if you set them up correctly and personally do not see the advantage of the Va... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Pwinson, didn't realize I was talking with you the other day here is our coaching for you. You would be silly not to jump on the 9H now during the sale. What you are dealing with is a topic near and dear to our hearts which is product tuning. No l... | |
| Looking for a 2.1 setup for music and home theater The Quad Z2 are amazing sounding they were $2500 now $2k add a $1k Paradigm Defiance sub which is shockingly good for $1k or the larger 12 inch for $1299 and you will have one terrific package.The Quad Z2 uses an extraordinary Ribbon tweeter that ... | |
| Does anyone have a good recommendation for the best quality home theater platform? Maxiwave we are both really into two channel music as well as home theater our best two channel system is $150k plus and our theater room is $100k.A Music Room is usually setup better than most Home Theater setupsin our Music Room we use $14k wort... | |
| MS Nova Phenomena is Rega Aria We sell the Rega Aria and it is really excellent sounding, we use it with a Rega RP 8 Alphetta and the sound is really magnificent. Think Tone audio gave the Aria a rave review. The phono stage is quiet, dynamic, and overall very well balalnced.Da... | |
| Looking for a 2.1 setup for music and home theater Op you can use the streaming services or not, you may find that the streaming services built into the amp might sound better than your computer into the amp.Obviously you can just get an integrated amp with a built in dac, the NAD C 658/Nuprime c... | |
| Soundproofing Actually Folk freak we got that sound leakage down heroically using layers of inexpensive materials done in a constrained layer damping system over the regular sheet rock, if we would have been able to build the wall out more we could have knocked... | |
| Soundproofing h2 we have a lot of experience in this arena, we built a soundproof wall which was insanly effective 110db in room 85db outside of room and we bult the wall out of inexpensive materials.The room and total project was featured on Rev Runs Rennovati... | |
| tube pre amp or tube amp Wahoo, I would do neither, you would get far better results upgrading to a much better digital front end. Your ARC CD 9 is showing its age vs newer digital front ends which will uncover more information and present a more realistic soundstage.You... | |
| Using a DSP and DAC Saomco, the real answer is to replace the older processor with the Wavelet which is far superior as a dac it is also better as a preampYou can use a Wavelet only as a crossover and run a different preamp and dac.Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ Legacy... | |
| Paradigm Persona series There is a difference between a dealer who is not supposed to discount a product that highly, vs a manufactuer. In the case of Paradigm they routinely offer promotions, they are a very large company and can afford to do so. The dealer is getting s... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? Dep you are so more advanced now aren’t you? If TJ is prefering a Coda to a Pass Labs amplifier and stating that a $6,200.00 Coda is sounding as good as a $14k pair of Pass Labs mono amplifiers and Doug Dale worked with and was one of the lead eng... | |
| New KEF Reference 5 speakers The fully tweeked up setup we had done at Fast's place sounded amazing and in terms of the marriage between the components, the room size and configuraton, as well as his taste in music, yes his system in our opinion did sound better than a local ... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? Pass makes some very good products however all of the points Unsound makes are very valid Pass’s gear tends to be big, heavy and runs hot. In our tests we have compared a set of the big Pass X 160 we think a $30k Monoblocks to a set of Chord Monob... |