shadorne
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| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers @keoliphantAt lower volumes Harbeth is a great choice even with SS. ATC are bone crunching dynamic at louder SPL with SS but at lower volumes (if that is mostly what you are after for an office) then I would advise a warm traditional style tube pr... | |
| Selling a Macintosh Amplier MC-352 Mcintosh probably have close to the best resale value of anything in used audio. Reliable and desirable. Kind of the Rolex of high end audio. | |
| Wilson Speakers & Reviewers Wilson have great mid range and warm bass. They are beautifully finished. The last word in speakers perhaps not but like Mcintosh, Wilson are highly desirable for their sound and look. You often see Wilson or B&W paired with Mcintosh - highly ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @audioengr +1 Yes it is the filtering that creates the dead effect. Still one of the most problematic issues with any DAC. Marantz house sound is dark and dead. I have heard plenty of great sounding SACD but Marantz is not to my taste. @georgehifi... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 @beewax I agree. I would suggest to use the cleanest high performance DAC I could find for the most resolving line level source signal and then use a tube preamp and roll tubes to taste for the musical taste. This approach is much more flexib... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @beewax +1 I agree. My strategy if I were to try to put some methodology to the task would be to1) go for the most jitter immune, cleanest, lowest distortion and highest SNR DAC available. This would obviously be a new DAC within the last year or... | |
| Trouble in Fleetwood Mac....... Peter Green Fleetwood Mac is the only line up I ever enjoyed. I think Mike Campbell is every bit as capable as Peter Green but will they let him be moody and artistic and go back to the old blues stuff in their catalog that wasn’t such a commercia... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 @kalali No material difference between 100K or 1000K input resistance. Both are high enough such that any stray micro-amp current could generate a voltage input to the amplifier.You need to get to 10K or below input impedance to start making a dif... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 Old thread. Good discussion but without a proper technical answer. Clearly ARC is the winner in popularity for resolution/pure performance.However, the REF 3 requires a high input impedance power amp to sound best (ARC power amps are typically 200... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... It isn’t just implausible, it is as ridiculous as a nude emperor said to be wearing fantastic clothes that only wise audiophiles can see. This time it is only those with golden ears and only the most high end resolving systems that can hear the so... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... @georgehifi +1 An analysis of the SR and TC contact threads points to half a dozen folks making 90% of the posts they ever made.Blatent marketing. Hopefully these people are ONLY here to help their friends make money off the gullible (hardly harml... | |
| Oppo to cease production -- Announced yesterday... Logical. Streaming services are killing all forms of physical media... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable It is the same as cable/fuse/etc break in nonsense - self-serving bs from unscrupulous dealers.ExampleBuyer: I tried it I hear nothing I want money backSeller: You need to give it 8 weeks to settle in.(8 weeks later)Buyer: I still hear nothing I w... | |
| max length of toslink or coaxial digital cable without signal degradation? Optical works great over long distances. What matters is the jitter rejection capability of what you put at the other end. | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable “lying or perpetrating some kind of fraud or hoax based on directionality? Come on, people!! It’s certainly can not (rpt not) be financial gain, I seriously doubt any of the Big Players, you know, like Audioquest, HiFi Tuning, Anti Cables, Goertz,... |