johnread57
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| Vintage musicality vs one box convenience G’day Elliott Thanks for your kind thoughts. I’m DownUnder in Melbourne Australia so a bit of travel involved in a visit but you’re welcome any time. Although the Viking’s are 98dB sensitive I find they do best with some power to move their two ... | |
| Moving Soon - Should I Pack Up Everything Now?? Then there’s the packing… it’s very easy to underestimate the time needed and to pack what you want to pack not the movers. Start packing early. Esp if you have plans for internal wall wiring… Photograph everything before you let people in your ... | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers And, if you get a higher end set of XLR cables you will notice another uptick in performance resolution etc. I run a fully balanced system, Ref 9 CD->LS10-> D240 it’s fabulous musical and an endgame set. See my set up here. | |
| Amp repair Sen Alagic, Philadelphia excellent tech engineer repaired my ARC amps aalltech at g mail dot com | |
| All ARC vs All Pass Labs vs All CJ system compare Yup… Had PasLabs XA25, and XP20 Pros: XA25 was a master grip on my PMC Twenty26. Great bass mids and clear trebs Cons: the XP20 was boring. Despite upgrading to seal noise and dampening. Didn’t combine with Esoteric K03Xs CD/DAC, too transpa... | |
| First Tube amp suggestions Just tried the cheap and ok Bouyrang Reisong A50 Mark III Set 300B for $800USD. It was ok but couldn’t really push my 98dB sensitive horn speakers because of the twin 12” woofers. I’m not into soldering so I sold the amp to someone who might if th... | |
| seeking advise please on my short list for new speakers? (15k budget) Martin Logan have a new line, UK speakers: PMC are mostly good I thoroughly enjoyed my Twenty26 and Elac 247.2. Today I have MB2SE but these are beyond your budget. If you consider used…Wilson’s are an option. | |
| Will China become the poor man’s dealer for high end audio? What was the original question? https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-leaving-china-diversifying-supply-chains-apple-tsmc-mazda-2023-6?amp And… http://www.am-hiend.com/about.html | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? I agree with the issue of the DAC first then the speakers. Take your time to research and test other DAC’s before making any decisions about speakers. And in the middle of that testing regime bring the bigger speakers in for a test… while you have... | |
| I'm thinking about a low watt tube amplifier? I have a Bouyrange 300B available…;-) | |
| Best Receiver? Huh? What about Lindorf or Trinnov? Get great reviews and would try if I could 👍 | |
| Final? ARC Chapter... If anyone is interested in listening to an upgraded suite of ARC Ref CD9 and LS10/D240? PM me if you want to talk. These units are great examples of the classic ARC sound with transparency and musicality at the fore. | |
| I downloaded high-res files and... An update of this journey... 1. Reflected on my Oppo 205SE sitting there with 2 USB 3.0 at the rear and one at the front. Grabbed a USB Drive and my WD 2TB SSD. i) Well the USB Drive worked except one of the three folders is only .dsf files and ... | |
| I downloaded high-res files and... I was going for this unit: M50 Topping, as a very simple link between my SSD and my old school ARC Ref CD9 player with awesome DAC sound via coaxial... when I came upon this discussion of cross talk that seems to tank this unit: link to quote: "... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? Actually this has been answered in a different domain with single question surveys such as for job satisfaction. Psychology research has shown and well established that a single question, how satisfied are you with your job, gives a reliable and ... |