ghosthouse
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| Help with integrated amp choice Appreciate the confirmation and additional comments @johnnyb53 I have been tempted by that integrated for some time now but keep finding other ways to spend my audio dollars! I think @twoleftears has some good suggestions too, esp. re a Hegel. The... | |
| Help with integrated amp choice Maybe a used Parasound Halo? New it goes for around $2500. In silver, I think it is a really good looking piece. Stereophile has a full review on it.https://www.stereophile.com/content/parasound-halo-integrated-integrated-amplifier | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? Insouciance | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Good luck with those, N. Much happiness enjoying great music through them. | |
| Tune of the Day A great track, Seems Like A Lifetime Ago (Part 1) from a great album: Bill Bruford's Earthworks "Random Acts of Happiness" (live)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSxBqhF-iFs | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass Many of his products have very different appropriate applications.Hello, @unsound - will you please elaborate on that? | |
| Upgrading speaker cables... Agree with dillI don’t understand how good audio gear will produce finely detailed sound based on sensitivity to minute changes in the signal yet not be sensitive to differences in the electrical properties of various brands of wire unless "broken... | |
| market for new IC cables.AQ,Cardas,Nordost&Kimber Ha! Two with the same opinion...must be a valid characterization ;-)Maybe you will like some of the newer Cardas wire....Parsec or possibly Cygnus (though I’ve not heard the latter). Parsec definitely has more "heft" than the AQ stuff did in my sy... | |
| I'm not dreaming - these are great CD copies I thought Audioengr (Steve) had commented about this in another thread some time ago. My recollection is he said copying the CD onto a CD-R eliminated one contributor to jitter (I don't believe it eliminates jitter in any absolute sense). If I re... | |
| market for new IC cables.AQ,Cardas,Nordost&Kimber mancub - Apologies for not reading carefully. I missed your IC focus in the title though I think the general traits comments I made still apply. Missing your interest in ICs, I neglected to mention Mogami. Certainly a well-established mftr. Might ... | |
| market for new IC cables.AQ,Cardas,Nordost&Kimber I’m in agreement with much of the preceding...Preference for one brand/model of wire over another will depend on gear it’s used with and your ears/tastes. Generalizations about sonic characteristics are, I think, of limited value - though the Card... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Jazz Pistols - SuperstringJoe Satriani - Crystal PlanetTrack 2, "House Full of Bullets" (some sad relevancy to the national situation)....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q9ML4iknE | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass First Watt F7 made a believer out of me: Zen Master Pass.+1 to kdude's accolade. | |
| What are you favorite artists and songs to listen to on your system? Jack Bruce...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_a_Tailor | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-IkWpm7TS0 |