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| Buy a $40,000 used DAC for $4,000 or a new one for the same amount? Interesting thread. On the surface, DACs are nothing more than glorified computers, and yes indeed, why would one spend more than the price of a tricked out desktop for one? Having dabbled in quite a few different DAC topologies, including NOS c... | |
| Which 300b amplifier for Devore O/96 With SETs, the quality and specs seem to make quite a bit of difference as well. | |
| Going to try a tube integrated. Good for you. It’s an exciting journey. I’ve use the Viva Solosta which is a robust and full sounding integrated but a total space heater. I’m now use the Trafomatic 300B integrated with Sophia Blue tubes and it sounds wonderful on my Trenner &am... | |
| Sophia Electric Blue glass I just rolled in a 274B rectifier and paired 6SN7s into my amp and wow are they good:https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/7635 | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. As explained to me by Paul Weitzel of Tube Research Labs, who was both a recording and equipment engineer, the problem centers around engineering, engineering of the source material and engineering at the reproduction end. People fixate so much o... | |
| Sophia Electric Blue glass Still somewhat scant feedback..... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hey Schubert. Thanks for that reference. How’s Minnesota? | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? The revel salon2 was the best sounding system I heard til I bought them and brought them home. now I disagree with the OP and while speakers are important all the pieces of the puzzle have to fit in a hi rez system for it to be musical.Bingo Steve... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Bob, good for you for squeezing the most out of the Gammas. A lot of people fail, and they truly a marvelous design and close to the best speaker I have owned. I sold them due to concerns about small children (thank you Bill). Sufur, 25 years i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Other albums that come to my mind:Yusef Lateef; Eastern Sounds Jim Hall/Charlie Haden; Live from MontrealAvishai Cohen Trio; Gently DisturbedNew Zion Trio; Fight Against Babylon (Jazz meets dub style reggae) | |
| Jazz for aficionados And thank you frogman.....more great jazz to collect | |
| Jazz for aficionados I do that have of any BA. Thank u acman3.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados A wonderful thread and break from the usual sword fighting over equipment. Ironically, I have picked up a lot of excellent jazz over the years by reading equipment reviews. I have some recent acquisitions that are more avant-garde or off the beate... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Ralph, you are more capable than anyone on this thread to explain why class D is the future from a technical standpoint. Lay it on us. Also, have you (as George is implying) had a religious conversion to the world of class D to the point of impl... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification As kosst alluded to, class D is not a new technology and was developed largely by Phillips for the sake of specific engineering requirements such as one would find in an hearing aid for example. Class D has had a renaissance of late due in part t... |