rickraymond59
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| Dynaudio - Made in China vs Denmark I just bought a $75k luxury performance EV that was made in a state of the art “super factory” in China. It’s engineered in Sweden so the quality is spec’d from European standards. The build quality exceeds that of Tesla which is made in America.... | |
| Efficient, affordable speakers for SETs? I’m using an Audion 300b 8 watt SET with Zu audio Soul Superfly’s and rarely need to turn the volume past 9 o’clock. The Zu’s are very efficient and have great dynamics and imaging. Very happy with this setup. It was quite a big step up from the D... | |
| Looking for best streamer without DAC under $3500 I have the LUMIN A1 which has an external power supply. It’s extremely quiet and has a very dynamic sound. The chassis is solid billet aluminum and gas pretty substantial weight to it. The app interface is pretty good and there’s occasional update... | |
| Great Qobuz streamer. Upgrade from Bluesound Node 2 LUMIN A1! I’m very satisfied. | |
| Turntable I started out with an entry level Rega and upgraded to an Acoustic Solid Bubinga Wood. It not only looks beautiful, it sounds great! Made in Germany in a small town low production and solid machines high quality components. I picked mine up in Ca... | |
| Best tonearm under $2k @dodgealum I looked into the Origin Live arms and they seem to claim quite a bit about their arms and not really too concerned about arm mass vs cart compliance. They state that a very well built arm supersedes any issues with mating mass and com... | |
| Best tonearm under $2k @Chakster that’s strange that the table came with the Denon 103. Do these German TT manufactures know what the heck they are doing? So I should be looking at high mass arms with the low compliance cartridge? From what I’ve read about the Sorane,... | |
| Audion Silver Night 300b 20th Anniversary I have the Silver night special anniversary edition (champagne color) 300b amp and changed the JJ’s to Kron Anniversary 300b’s and I really noticed a nice difference. More authority overall and detail improved. I also had the caps upgraded to V ca... | |
| EAT E-Glo Petite Hybrid phono stage Still breaking it in but I’ve immediately noticed how real the instruments sound and more separation. I hope after breaking the vocals stand out a bit more, they seem a little pulled back at times right now. As as far as the phono cable, the one f... | |
| EAT E-Glo Petite Hybrid phono stage I ended up going with the EAT E-glo S model. Just got it and am breaking it in but right out of the box more detail and real sounding than my previous phono. | |
| EAT E-Glo Petite Hybrid phono stage Wow, what you wrote is really enticing me to get one now. I’d love to get the petit because it’s very affordable. I’m sure the E glo model S will step it up a notch but at double the cost. It would be great if someone can add some advice between t... | |
| I want a streamer I use the LUMIN A1 which has the DAC built in but the U1 is just the streamer. I am totally blown away by the sound of my LUMIN. | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects Grannyring on this site makes great interconnects for reasonable price. I purchased a pair from him and they outperformed all other very expensive pairs I’ve had. He will make them with whatever RCA’s you want! Highly recommend you give him a sho... | |
| Only you expensive cable owners, is this real? I came across Mapleshade on FB as well and after talking to Pierre, I thought I’d give his maple blocks under my speakers and his double helix speaker wires a try. Well the maple blocks(4” with heavyweight brass footers) didn’t work for my Zu Soul... | |
| Zu103 or Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC cartridge The Acoustic Solid TT came with a Rega tone arm I believe an RB300 model. I’m not really crazy about the cable that’s in it because the connectors that fit to the cartridge seem kinda cheap like folded over metal. I would’ve thought they would’ve ... |