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| Is vintage audio better? I'm starting to look at current (modern) and non-US audio. In my opinion, very few non US companies can match the best from Spectral, Boulder, Ayre, Audio Research, Conrad Johnson. The really good European stuff is at a much higher price. No vintage gear matches the best current stuff, even if one discoun... | |
| Vandersteen 2ce Signature and Signature 2? The Vandys are a bit long in the tooth - check out the Paradigm Prestige series. | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more My solution, which puts sound quality above everything else,is to use a Roon Nucleus to feed an Ayre Codex. I'm quite confident nothing else will come close under $3k. I connect my tv to the optical input, the Nucleus to usb. TV sounds radically b... | |
| Are Pass Labs amps probably the best ever you can buy ? The Luxman 509 is awesome, as is the Ayre AX 5 | |
| Power Cord suggestion please I truly wouldn't worry about power cords until I had a reasonably good amplifier, which fairly obviously would not be destroying the sound reproduction capability of a speaker by being built into the cabinet. | |
| Cartridge recommendations I've heard both. I intend to buy the SL. Both are very good, the SL is better! | |
| More expensive DAC the answer? The Klipsch are never going to sound great. It sounds like you are describing the honk that horns always have. Try some Paradigms, at whatever price point you can swing. | |
| Which integrated amp for better musicality - Parasound Hint vs Primaluna vs ??? Prima Luna is tubes sounding Chinese dreck.The Parasound is good value, particularly with a Transparent Audio or Shunyata AC cord.If you can swing it, a Luxman 550AXII is musical and built! | |
| Speakers for.....every type of music? Speaker design has probably improved more than anything else, with the possible exception of DACs, in the last 5 years. The latest Paradigm offerings, as well as the Sonus Faber Sonnettos, are outstanding. At the top, The Wilson Audio Sabrinas, Yv... | |
| How about a list of speakers that are time and phase coherent? Thiels and what else? Wilson Audio | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? The Ayre Ex-8 - DAC - the DAC in that is stunningly good! | |
| Wilson Audio Sabrina . . . I'm smitten. Should I consider others? You will not find anything to match the Sabrinas. And they are stunning with just a Rogue Cronus Magnum II driving them! | |
| Einstein The Tube Preamp, Need A Favor From Fellow Owner You should remove the tubes anyway. Grill or no grill. You couldn't have received it that way. |