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| Looking to upgrade my preamp, suggestions? has anybody any experience with mcintosh c48 preamp?just looking at that it seems to cover all bases with dig inputs, mm and mc phono and headphone socketa nice looking all in one but cannot find a single review anywhere | |
| Looking to upgrade my preamp, suggestions? @sbank yes the vk51se is also on my hotlist, although as it only has balanced inputs i was considering the vk32se more just for conveniencehowever i know bat make the xlr to rca adapters so always a way round things | |
| Looking to upgrade my preamp, suggestions? Yes I have to admit I am kinda used to and liking the tube pre stage, helps take the edge of some power amps sterility imho. Some call it colouration but as I mostly listen to rock I like a bit of colour...lol.Was also looking at an ayon product ... | |
| Best standalone music server? @jond Of course I get your point, in fact I would have to concede the logic of it if all you want to do is browse without owning as this is exactly what the wife does with tv using Netflix and Amazon Prime for about $22 a month for the pair. And y... | |
| Best standalone music server? @jond Everybody is entitled to their choicesMine as I have stated is to have something tangible in my hands when I have paid good money for it.Now just as an example, I bought some cd,s say and I decided I did not like them, well I am going to rip... | |
| Best standalone music server? @jond All cd,s have been ripped as flac, that is the default setting for the vault although you can change it in the menu of the bluos app if you wanted too.existing music i downloaded to it had been ripped as wma files on my pc.the beauty of the ... | |
| Best standalone music server? Well had this vault2 for about 4 days now and have 3500 songs loaded and out of those just 15 got dumped into unknown due to bad metadata, and nearly all of those were really old obscure tracks so a great job as far as i am concerned. Quickly fixe... | |
| Best standalone music server? I fail to see how cds will be eliminated anytime soon, sure they said that about vinyl too....However regardless of that i am just old fashionedWhen I have stumped up $10 or $15 or $20 for an album, well I WANT an album physically not some downloa... | |
| Best standalone music server? So here we are now and a very happy owner of the bluesound vault2 which fills my want list at every step!so easy to use even my wife can handle it, i am controlling it via the bluos app in android and no issues at all, it found my network and home... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Time to chime with my direct a/b comparoBAT VK600SE vs Red Dragon S500Everything else the same, just swapping leads between the bat and the red dragon.Hate to say it but it looks like the 120lb space heater is going to be looking for a new home.I ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? mid fi?high enders?are we not all supposed to be in the same hobby for the love of the music?such labels do not help matters any IMHOGranted there will always be people who will argue black is white just for the sake of it and they exist in every ... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @jimman2Quite amusing as I have not owned a piece of vinyl in over 15 years but my 16 year old daughter loves her vinyl and has paid some (imho) exorbitant prices for some of them, so yes I would agree that Vinyl is hot right now.And now I am eve... | |
| Best standalone music server? will let you know when its here and i have some run time on it! | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings @dave_b Just purchased a bluesound vault 2 myself, what do you operate yours with, ipad or android and what software?going to be interesting to compare this running through the red dragon to my esoteric running through the BAT! | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Really interesting stuff hereMy two centsJust replaced two behemoth Emotiva amps ( a 5channel and a 2 channel) in the ht rig with a tiny little Nuforce mca-20.Now the tanks were rated at 5x200w and 2x300w and the Nuforce "just" 8x150w.I am pleasan... |