dgarretson
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| What tube pre-amps pair well with Pass amps? You may want a differential balanced preamp to bring out the best in Pass's balanced designs. I use an AtmaSphere MP-1 preamp with XA 160.8 monoblocks and a modified XP-25 phono stage. It sounds very clean and can be contoured to taste with tube... | |
| Audio Research Sold I always appreciated that WZ Johnson-era ARC products included schematics and parts lists in their product manuals. Tube circuits today are not so much more complicated, but are marketed as mystical things and priced accordingly. | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Raul, thanks for the insights. However, be aware that in critical signal coupling positions, Pass Labs uses capacitors from another capacitor vendor that we both know well. | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide You might ask Chris at Parts Connection if he prefers the Natural over Connex BL-Ag solid silver bulk IC cable. Both are made by DH Labs. In recent years BL-Ag has become my reference. It is further improved with a double run per channel(Schroeder... | |
| New In 2020 @maxnewid Wow, now that's a bananafish! | |
| Esoteric SACD player owners, do you use the built in DAC or an external DAC and why? The K0-1X has an excellent DAC and USB input that I’ve been using with a SOtM EN renderer and USB conditioner. One nice thing is that both SOtM devices and K0-1X can be slaved to an external 10mhz clock. So far I have not been tempted to look else... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Bought a pair of Wilson WATT3/Puppy2 new in the mid-nineties that I thought was the last word, but eventually took an 80% loss at resale for a better speaker at less than half the price. Ouch! | |
| SOtM player? I'll add to the chorus: SOtM makes top-notch products. That said, I have only used them with Roon, which I consider essential to managing a collection of 12K albums. | |
| SOtM player? It works perfectly as a Roon endpoint. | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) I can’t believe the unending debate on whether equipment breaks in or the ear accustoms itself to equipment. Equipment break-in-- particularly for electro-mechanical devices like speakers-- is for real. I’ll bet that most speakers that are put up ... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Maybe, but at this level it’s like arguing that a McLaren is better than a Bugatti. Impulse and pedigree rule. | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Trolling at the $100K level is discouraging. | |
| Restoring vintage H/K Citation 19 Power Amp Jim Mcshane specializes in this work.http://www.mcshanedesign.net/ | |
| Everything Matters With Digital Naysayers here and psychologically crippled forums like Audioscience inspired me to order an Uptone etherREGEN today. So far I have been impressed by "audiophile" innovations in the Ethernet/USB domain. My wallet is open to experiments-- within ... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital We can probably all agree that a Raspberry Pi is the best $39 DAC that one can buy. |