ferrox
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| Tube vendors. As for me, Vintage Tube Services. | |
| Need speaker advice Audiokinesis seems workable for you. | |
| Sound quality impact - preamp vs power amp? In my personal opinion, a preamp works like a music conductor. I have both Aesthetix Eclipse and Atma-sphere MP-1. Both are excellent preamp but have totally different presentation of the music. It's like listening to Bernstein or Karajan in compa... | |
| Do speaker wires matter I have been changing my speakers cables, from Siltech, JPS Labs, Acoustic Zen, Gotham Audio and I now ended up with the vintage WE cables. It always makes different when we switched the cables. It's all about the taste and the matching of the whol... | |
| Overrated/Underrated I would not comment about overrated, but for underrated, for sure is Audiokinesis speakers. The best bang for the money. As for the audio gears, Aesthetix and Atma-sphere are entitled for bigger acknowledgement. | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Coming from Auralic Aries femto to LDM Server. It's a huge jump. I even tested two different firmware of LDM intensively for a week to compare between the two. Apart from the server itself, the firmware also plays a big chunk of the audio journey.... | |
| Should I use long interconnects, or long speaker cables? If your preamp had xlr output and your amp xlr input, use longer xlr interconnect. | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? Sota Sapphire V with proper setup and affordable arm / cart, will sound wonderful as well. | |
| Speaker Positioning Start with laser distance measuring device and you can tweak it from there. | |
| Unbelievable 3-D imaging sound Totally agree with you, when a system totally dialed in, it would give you the most thrilling enjoyment. It's a real pleasure to experience every mm move we make on our speakers and observe how the sound stage changes. :) | |
| Cartridge recommendations under $2500 Benz Micro Wood is also worth considering. | |
| High end stereo preamps? Worth it? Bring in Aesthetix preamps at any level. It will reveal what music is. :) | |
| Which USB Re Clocker My take is Ideon 3R Master Time. | |
| Dac upgrade Try looking for Lampizator DAC..they're amazing.. | |
| powercords Put your best powercord on the initial line..either CDP or Preamp for best result. |