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| High End Amp Price Collapse musings All things digital carry a sense of instant obsolescence once the next version is announced. I wouldn't buy a digital amp because I think it would be a poor boat anchor (too light) in a few years. There are many old "analog" amps, speakers, and ... | |
| Best standalone music server? I worked in computer hardware/software interfaces for most of my career and I think a good laptop, Windows or Apple, with JRiver set up correctly, feeding a USB DAC, is neither a bottleneck nor a compromise as a digital source, and should be super... | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take IMHO, linestage and wire designers are more chefs serving up tastes than engineers solving problems. It can be argued that there is really no problem to be solved with braided quality copper wire or a good signal attenuator (ignoring the digital ... | |
| Dennis Had Inspire Fire-Bottle SET amp review Whitestix,How do you like the Don Sachs kt88 Amp?Thanks | |
| Magnepans I have the Avatar you have, and I once had Magnepan Mg2a's. First, old Maggie's can have a problem with the glue deteriorating, and it's not always obvious to the listener. Second, I wouldn't think this is a good match. Maggie's seem to need a ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I can't recall exactly what my question was (slow/fast, I think), but the reply from the very respected amp company said they recommended a higher value in after-market fuses. I didn't ask why, but they could be saying that a little more toleranc... | |
| Tube Power Amp Suggestions Bigdish,I'm pretty much on the same search. I currently have an el34 integrated that I like better in ultralinear than triode, and my speakers are fairly custom and around 91db efficient. I think I mainly needed the extra power of ultralinear. ... | |
| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations @ocinn, I haven't tried the Vh. I was thinking of buying a new tube amp and decided to first try tweaking everything from cables, to contacts, to fuses, to outlets. I was intrigued by the Stagers construction, cost, and reviews, so i tried them.... | |
| Entry Level Interconnect Reccomendations +1 Stager Silver Solid. Very clean, open sound, but you'll think they're too skinny to pass big fat bass notes. They do. | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? It's very difficult for a small company to set the right retail price by properly balancing inventory, sales volume, distributor terms, and a myriad of internal costs. There are probably as many good, small companies buried in the audio graveyar... | |
| CLASSE - Great amps or highly flawed? I had a McCormack DNA-1 and a Classe CA-300. The McCormack was obviously faster and probably a more open sound, but the CA-300 was more of a stable brute of an amp for some Martin Logans. My son-in-law now has the CA-300. The CA-300 was much bet... | |
| Class D Technology I'll stick with tubes for now, but the Mola Mola/ Vivid G3 Giya system I heard definitely wasn't midfi. | |
| What do audiophiles want from a cable? My guess is that audiophiles see cables as similar to water hoses, and the goal is to increase the flow and remove the constriction. That's at odds with reality, since we're not dealing with electrons flowing into preamps, amps or speakers. But a... | |
| Songs that have stood the test of time. Somewhere Over The Rainbow never gets old, and always compels me to listen. | |
| Used Audio Research Preamp Options I had an LS3 and liked it...liked it better than an Audible Illusion 3a and a Conrad Johnson PV (3?) I compared it with. Nothing romantic on sparkly. It was feeding a McCormack DNA-1 and just sounded solid, full and balanced. But it's the only ... |