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| New to Class D / Purifi - thoughts before I purchase, details below @bartsw -- good point about preamp. Same applies to DAC and/or streamer. Those can and should be "voiced" in whatever way the user most appreciates, and that sound will carry through, to at least some extent, through the amp(s) to the speakers. A... | |
| New to Class D / Purifi - thoughts before I purchase, details below I’m a big fan of class D amps, having had great sonic success with amps using ICEPower or NCore modules (I have 3 such amps at this time). However, I have no personal experience with Purifi modules, so can't comment on that. It’s nice that you ha... | |
| Sonny Rollins has passed One of the greatest reed players anywhere, anytime. A titan. He outlived all his friends and loved ones and was a shut-in due to pulmonary issues; his life was not easy the past 4-5 years. I felt relief when I learned he passed (for his sake, I me... | |
| Does the Devore Fidelity Orangutan 0/96 speaker play rich and full bodied at 50 Decibels Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think anyone here mentioned the source component(s) upstream of the speakers & amp. Those matter a lot in getting satisfactory low volume performance. I’ve had any number of 2-way speakers on my nearfield/desktop... | |
| My thoughts on my first Class D amp I'm a broken record on this topic. If you want to hear class D that has meat on the bones and sounds like real music, try the Wyred 4 Sound ST-500. Used ones sometimes come up F.S. in the $550 - $650 range. It's a steal if you can find it. I've h... | |
| Noob! Please help me replace my old power amp, some candidates listed. Casey: I own the larger B&K amp (150 wpc . . . it’s >30 yrs old & working great) which, like the ST-140, uses mosfets for power. Though some criticize mosfets as less than ideally resolving (they harp on the "mosfet fog"), I beg to dif... | |
| PayPal just blocked my account for using F&F I’ve used Paypal for the last 10 years, many transactions, both as buyer and seller. This F&F vs G&S debate is a painful topic for me. A few relevant facts: 1 - It is lunacy for sellers of big ticket items to demand F&F from total str... | |
| Beware of doing business with Joshua “Josh” Schor!! This topic is painful to me--not because I’ve been taken by scammers due to Paypal’s F&F (I haven’t), but because so many otherwise ethical, "normal" sellers have taken to requiring payment that way. Some of them are just interested in savin... | |
| What are your Eureka Moments in this Hobby? A couple euraka moments stand out for me: 1 - In 1986, after wasting too much time & money on terrible sounding speakers, I schemed to purchase a used pair Vandersteen’s then-flagship speaker, the Vandersteen 4. The first time I heard them (w... | |
| 4K headphone + headphone amp/dac system recommendations please Big-time headphone person here (@Pharmaboy on Head-Fi). I own a lot of stuff and often review loaner headphones, amps, DACs. Everybody hears the same things quite differently, so I can only respond from my own experience and sonic tastes: DAC... | |
| I hope I made good choices with new gear. Comments? "railroad videos" (amazing!). I could get carried away w/model RR & trains, but never gave that infection a chance to start. As for 4K video, I had to get the Jason Bourne collection (all pretty wonderful & wonderful looking films). My mo... | |
| I hope I made good choices with new gear. Comments? Your room/system journey had some obvious parallels to my own, in which I took 25+ years to do massive woodworking built-ins throughout our very large secondary living room, which was originally to be my sound room, but has since become a beautifu... | |
| Qobuz vs. Tidal — Real-World Impressions on Selection, Sound Quality & Musicality I have good reasons to avoid the whole streamer/streaming thing--insufficient knowledge about streaming and space for new components being big ones. Due to space concerns I would pretty much be confined to using any streaming service on a desktop... | |
| What to do with very low offer on an item for sale If informal market research (ie, HiFiShark) reveals that your item is dramatically overpriced, lower the price to market level. But assuming your price already is market level--IGNORE THE LOW-BALLER. | |
| What speaker is the most musical, one you never want to sell? @wspohn I’m with you on that 2nd system. My best ever speakers were the Vandersteen 4s, the ones that came right before the 4As. Richard offered to upgrade mine to 4A at a NJ dealer, but I was getting ready to move to a house w/no place to put big... |