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Tube Amp recommendation for Thiel CS1.6 under $2k
Sold thiels for years the 1.6 were not hard to drive a good 100watt tube amplifier sounds marvelous with them   DAVE AND Troy AUDIO INTELLECT  NJ FORMER THIEL SALESMAN  
I just sold my passive Kef system and moving to an active system.
We are a kef and atc dealer   We also have elac and dali so we can give you some advice   Dave and Troy Audio intellect  nj Atc, kef dali,elac dealers    
Aurender Now Roon Ready
welcher perhaps you should consider an upgrade on most sustems USB is the only way to stream true high res content and USB offers asynchronous data transfer we did a shoot out of an432EVO Aeon $7800, vs an aurender n12 and the evo was better soun... 
Paradigm 120h vs Goldenear Reference
we were a dealer for both the founders 120 were the better loudspeaker but took up a bit more space   However we never sold a lot of either, the legacy signatures still proved to be the best sounding loudspeaker below 10k, even compared to these... 
Aurender Now Roon Ready
snore news you still need a core   just buy an Innous or 432EVO both servers sound better and have both the core and endpoints in one    Dave and Troy Audio Intellect NJ 432evo dealers   
why expensive streamers
we are server and streamer specialists:   we have been specializing in streaming for many years first we  were using a high performance Sony desktop and a mac mini and  various laptops we were running Jriver. the pcs were always a pain due to... 
Stupid question about hooking up a streamer
wew are a custom installer a roon dealer and a bluesound dealervand we used to sell Innous   our 432evo servers outperform Innous    Yes you can use a mesh network with a roon device the only issue can be is Roon may sometimes have an issue fi... 
Would I benefit with Roon?
it really depends  on what you want to achieve,    we are a roon, and server dealer, and a bluesound dealer, as well    In terms of sound quality a better roon server feeding a dac will outperform the Node both as a streamer or as an all in on... 
Amp vs Preamp
40 year audio veteran both are important think of it this way unless you have a dac used as a preamp the preamp is the bridge between input and output so if you have a great dac or phono stage and a great amplifier if the preamp is not up to sn... 
Aurender Music Server and CD Transport comparison
wwe are an nad dealer the m2 was decent but nowhere as good as the newer models like the m33 as per a transport I would look at an Atoll dr 200 transport which uses a superbly built cd transport from Teac so parts are easily sourced Digital sign... 
Difference between Bluesound Node, Node 2, Node 2i, NodeX
we are a  blue sound dealer   The node 2iwas the first really successful streamer from bluesound The node is the current version  a redesign of the 2i adds USB output  the node X uses an improved Dac chip over the node. Dave and Troy Audio i... 
Why is my expensive streamer to my DAC better than sending Roon or my Mac directly to DAC
weiserb the streamer is often getting its signal from a streaming site TIDAL OR QUOBUZ rather then a pc  
Turntable setup NYC area
Mike trei is awesome did he respond hehas multiple numbers   
Why is my expensive streamer to my DAC better than sending Roon or my Mac directly to DAC
The issue is noise a pc generates alot of noise this affects the data going to the dac a purpose built device delivers a cleaner data stream   We have sold most more streamers and have tested vs pcs and the dedicated devices all produced notican... 
Tube preamp recommendation for a simaudio 760a amplifier
zesto a fuly balanced tube preamp with adjustable gain    we have a demo unit  Dave and Troy Audio intellect nj formwe zesto dealer