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| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? Take A Walk On The Wild Side. Lou Reed A Case Of You. Diana Krall Magnificent Seven. The Clash These Days. Greg Allman Oh Well. Sara K Tired of typing, but I agree with many here that it's best to let your friend pick some of the songs regard... | |
| Here comes the PS Audio's streamer -- anyone excited? I for one am very interested, as are many others who are in the PS Audio digital ecosystem. Many owners of the PS Directstream DAC long ago became disenchanted with the internal Bridge II card and migrated to the Matrix X SPDIF 2 DDC to convert a... | |
| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp Shssh. Don't tell anyone, but the 1950sTung-Sol 12AU7s are really terrific. They're as old as me and I just bought a backup pair so go crazy out there! | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear McDonald and Giles. King Crimson vets. Bailed to make their own album... | |
| Auditioning The Fyne 703 Soon Just ordered a pair of F703s. They are scheduled to arrive at the distributor in Houston on Tuesday, then on to me. This is a terrifically exciting, real and live sounding speaker. I'm not at all unhappy with my Usher Dancer Mini Twos, but the F... | |
| Looks like PS Audio has a hit on their hands with the new speaker Gee, what a cheery lot. PS Audio has already sold several dozen pairs in the first three rounds and the waitlist is backed up to September. They'll do fine without your business... | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? +1 | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? Yes. With an adequately resolving system an audio grade ethernet switch makes a significant SQ difference. I now use two Uptone Audio Ether REGENs, one after my router and the second just before my Nucleus+. Both are powered by linear power suppl... | |
| Try a sub a third in the back I use three RELs in my 2 channel setup to great effect. Ears and RTA show very even bass throughout the room (and house, for that matter). I have a REL Carbon Special in the front right corner playing both channels and two REL S/5s on either side... | |
| Audioquest Angel vs Synergisitic Research Atmosphere Alive I subscribe to the full loom approach. A few years ago I had a loom of mid-level level or higher Nordost cables, then I began returning to the Synergistic Research fold. The Foundation series is really solid for the price and outperformed my much ... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? This went way better than I anticipated! | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses Added a third Purple to my system, this time in my PS Audio DirectStream DAC replacing an Orange. My system is sounding better than ever, however I also violated the one change at a time rule and added 3M RFI absorber material in strategic places ... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses My first two are fully broken-in and my system is sounding really amazing. I swore I would wait for a three for two deal before I bought any more, but yesterday I broke down and ordered one to replace the Orange Fuse in my DAC... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses Purple is working really well for me vs. Orange in my Nordost QB-8 power distributor and my BHK preamp. It;s a long break-in, but mostly all good, and sometimes spectacularly so. I'm really happy with them and I'll be buying more... | |
| What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks I like albums that are a bit "difficult." In other words, ones that are somewhat difficult to reproduce cleanly. Rickie Lee Jones's Pop Pop can peel the skin off your ears until you get it right. The bass on Holly Cole's Temptation album of Tom Wa... |