tortilladc
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| Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso I have a Belles Reference 150A V2 power amp that I use when I don't feel like firing up my tube power amp. It sounds very nice but I haven't experienced the Rapture like others on this thread. Do I need better cables? | |
| Best amps to use for the Dali megalines This photo is a few years old but Elliot @ Acoustic Image runs his Megalines with the trapezoidal shaped tube amps in the background of this image. You could ask him for advice on amp selection.http://imgur.com/a/ss6Qg | |
| Upgrade my DAC or buy more weed? I have the EE Minimax Supreme as well. Rolling tubes is an option but I think changing out the opamps makes a bigger difference; I changed the stock ones out for Sparkos, no soldering required. I go back and forth on which sounds better. They're j... | |
| $1600. preamp $1,600 for a Shrimp is too high. The Jumbo Shrimp (version with remote and some other changes inside) would be a good deal at $1,600. i use one in my office system and really like it. | |
| What's going on with the audio market? 38, 6, hopefully single digits.I work in music and spend most of my time around people who either work in music or perform or have a voracious appetite for discovering new music. Very, very few have any interest in this hobby and I don't blame the... | |
| would a shelter 501 work well in a michell tecnoarm? I recently purchased a 501 Mk III for use on a Rega RB303 arm. Based on the results of this calculator, I added a 3 gram weight to the headshell. I have no idea if your problem would be fixed by that but it’s a cheap fix to try.http://www.vinyleng... | |
| Manley Chinook I have a used Chinook (purchased from audiogon seller) without noise issues. I also purchased a used Manley Shrimp preamp that I sent to Manley for the upgrade to Jumbo Shrimp (took about 3 weeks). Great company to deal with. Warranty and after-ma... | |
| Where do you guys buy tubes? Vintage Tube Services and TC Tubes.Ebay for the odd ducks (6C33C-B and 6350) that I then send to tctubes for testing. | |
| Questionable service at Soundsmith Soundsmith seems to be one of this forum’s sacred cows (reputation for stellar work, not a lot of competition). Posting anything critical about them is going to get you some responses you don’t like. I was going to send them a Sumiko cart that I’m... | |
| Do you rely on RAID as your NAS backup? I use a western digital raid enabled NAS for all my digital music. It is in turn is backed up incrementally to the cloud via Crashplan, which offers unlimited backup, no-throttle, backups. Crashplan will also deliver via overnight delivery physica... | |
| Cambridge Audio products unreliable/unsupported? I owned threeCA products, the StreamMagic 6, the DACMagic Plus and the Azur 551r AVR, both purchased new. The DACMagic Plus and StreamMagic 6 worked flawlessly, the 551r blew some caps in the video subsystem after a year of operation.I live in LA ... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Stereophile just posted a review of a GBP 9,000 ($13,619) passive preamp. | |
| Sierra 2 vs Dynaudio Focus 160 Ascend has a 30 day full refund policy so you could demo one that way. otherwise if you're anywhere near southern california you could demo one in their showroom and also demo Dynaudio at a local dealer in LA.i have the Sierra-2's for my office sy... | |
| Dali CD Vol 1 There's a copy on ebay for a ridiculous price. Assuming you are in the USA, try calling a dealer or The Sound Org (the distributor). | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Oh boy. *grabs popcorn* |