emergingsoul
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| Tube preamp match with Solid Stare amp What does “low output impedance” mean? | |
| Preamp Gain issues with high efficiency speakers Speakers seem way too efficient for your set up. Or get a tube power amp with just a few watts of power that will get along with your speakers. Cj has these types of amps. Keep things simple | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? Not sure if installing roon is going to be of value for the sound quality unless you use some of the dsp included as part of Roon, which I don’t find very appealing. I think the overlay of this on top of qobuz maybe on the neutral side. Stream... | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? I have a streamer/dac, lumin x1, and A nucleus for roon. And this connects into my Gat cj pre-amplifier. The lumin is superb and using a separate Dac which I have I wanted to avoid due to all the additional interconnect crap and all the temptation... | |
| Do you adjust your subwoofer I have a NAD M17 v2i processor, it's remote has an overall volume Control, of course, and additionally has three separate targeted volume controls for tweaking the surrounds, Center and subwoofer channels. So if the sub sound tends to be too much... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? A lot of life-changing events have happened since I started this epic thread so long ago. Adopted a dog and have become a philatelist. Being a philatelist is a very very expensive hobby too. So much to learn. They got this one tiny square piece o... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? So dealers take my trade-in and sell it to a company specializing in the sale of used gear? So that may explain things. How does anyone make money selling new equipment with all this complexity? Unless the margins are greater than 50%. It seems ... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? Ever wonder what happens to all the used gear being returned to dealers. They take trade-ins all the time and yet never seem to have anything available for sale used. It's a quandary. Maybe the manufacturers agree to take it back in some crazy f... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? OK maybe you’re right, I’ll change my answer to $25,000. And then it follows that there are so many $25,000 speakers that easily match a $50,000 speaker, which are mostly overpriced because they have a huge margin and are being bought by people w... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? To clarify, it's very very very difficult to decide which speakers to buy and then to decide which speaker within a manufacturers product line to buy. As far as spending more money, you don't need to spend a lot of money to get great sound from a... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? When it comes to buying speakers I think people tend to feel comfort about what they're buying when it cost more. If I put a $7000 speaker in front of you and a $20,000 speaker in front of you you'll probably say the $20,000 speaker sounds better ... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? @x5owner1 Thank you for your comment but just because someone says it sounds good somehow that's supposed to influence me to buy it. that's the oldest marketing trick in the world I'm not sure how you can choose new speakers unless you can hear... | |
| Has buying and/or selling audio gear changed? Unless you can physically pick something up I would not buy used audio gear from anybody. Stretch and buy it new. I don't see very many good things on used anyway and you have no idea what the history is. It's no longer under warranty and God hel... | |
| Help me spend $100,000 on a new system do things gradually so you can appreciate the changes. Why would you want to spend $100,000 and have like eight boxes of stuff and then you put them all together and maybe it’ll sound OK but you’ll never know what does what in terms of a contribut... | |
| Was 1971 the high point of popular music? It was 1972. Meatloaf was the last album during the mid 1970s bat out of hell, that made sense. And then everything fell apart. |