gliderguider
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| Tube Pre-Amp with Low Gain The Canary CA-800 and CA-880 both give 9 db. I can vouch for the quality of Canary products overall - I use their 801 preamp and 339 amps. Both are terrific. | |
| What would be the weakest link in this setup I think all your gear is plenty good enough. I'd look at the room. Is it well treated in terms of damping? Are the speakers well placed for smooth response, precise imaging and adequate bass? Treating the room - especially damping the first reflec... | |
| TG Audio vs Pursang vs Poiema Interconnects Tvad, my interconnects are High Purity. I've never heard the standard ones. | |
| TG Audio vs Pursang vs Poiema Interconnects Gee, Psychic, I'm truly sorry that my power filter isn't expensive enough. You must know something about the state of the power in my house that I don't.Frankly, I've heard power conditioners screw things up more often than not, so my philosophy i... | |
| Amp burn-in..Best technique There's a much simpler approach, which I take with most of my gear. Just play it normally, and accept that it will take a while before it starts to sound its absolute best. | |
| TG Audio vs Pursang vs Poiema Interconnects I used to have a full system of Pursang along with Brujo and Brujo HC power cords. I now have a full system of TG Audio HSR, with SLVR power cords. I think my cableitis is cured.The TG has none of the stereotypical "silver" sound - i.e. lean, very... | |
| Musical Fidelity Tri-vista 21 DAC My local dealer sells both Audio Note and MF. He was quite taken with the 21, feeling that it had much of the organic quality prized by the owners of Audio Note DACs. He feels it punches well out of its weight class. I have heard it, but only unde... | |
| Why even bother? We mostly use our tuner for CBC 1 which is mainly talk programming. Yes, a Sony table radio would do just as well. The kids use it for their "music" when we're out. Sometimes I use it to catch live music broadcasts where content is the key. Appare... | |
| What do you NEVER want to hear again??? Anything by Arnold Schoenberg or Diana Krall (for different reasons). | |
| Audio Note Dac 1.1x The other DACs and CDPs I've used or compared to AN equipment include the Assemblage 2.6, SimAudio Nova, MSB Gold Link and Naim CD5. I've also listened extensively to a Wadia 861 in a similar, though not identical system to my own. | |
| Audio Note Dac 1.1x My experience is more in line with Muralman1. I too was seduced by a Zero DAC. When I took it home for a short trial, I was less than impressed by the bass, but there was just something about the sound. To my ears it had a rightness that transcend... | |
| It's 2050. I'm 84 years old... The one. The only. Jim Morrison. | |
| SETs vs. Push/Pull Look at the Canary line of 300B p-p amps. I'm using a CA-339 right now on a pair ot Coincident Total Victories, and it's a much better amp to my ears than the SETs I've been using, including the Wavelength Triton Blue, the deHavilland Aries 845G a... | |
| Ultimate Ear Candy "Friday Night in San Francisco""Via Crucis" on Hyperion"Gypsy" by Lara St. John for the violin fanatics among us"Live at Longview" by Ian Tyson.Ear candy all. | |
| Tube Amp Suggestions I suspect Didactically is just having a bit of fun with us here. I wouldn't get too worked up over his obviously overstated absolutist position. We all know that what counts is enjoying the music. Time to go fire up those distortion-filled amps (a... |