kennyc
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| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? planned obsolesce You are mistaken. It's not planned obsolescence (top down thinking), rather it's cost/benefit - how much time and resources does one have to invest and what are the future expected cash flows. Companies must operate at at le... | |
| Casual listening I have 2 systems. SS for accuracy and critical listening to individual instruments/voices and dynamic power/speed, tubes for that midrange magic and for relaxing. | |
| OMG Moment Perhaps the OPs torso and/or neck is longer than average and not included within Wilson's engineered dispersion pattern :) | |
| Dark Horse DAC I honestly don’t understand this negativity. Here the OP is trying to share his 2k DAC find as maybe a great deal at that price point, but some comments seem to only discourage such sharing: - it’s doesn’t compare to more expensive Lampi DACs -... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops Demagnetizer: $1.9K CS Port IME1 $1.8k DS Audio ION-001 Since you got different results with different vinyl LPs, makes me wonder if different vinyl has unique static electricity. | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps @arhgef What is make and model of the Class A amp and speakers that you demoed and liked? It may help us to narrow your choices. | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps 25 Watts “or less” The lower the amp wattage, the more limiting choices of speakers. There’s a big difference between what speakers will drive 25amps vs a flea watt amp such as 4watts. I have a 300B 8watt amp which necessitates that I have a ... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops Seems it’s either a vinyl problem or a static electricity problem. New vinyl is not clean, it benefits from a good cleaning- ultrasonic works best. Static electricity can also cause pops n clicks - best to try to eliminate. While many products t... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? +1 @bfleetwood - better midrange vs more neutral linear dynamic lows highs | |
| Streamers made in America? I am old enough to remember when "Made in China" on a product meant that it actually was cheap and poorly built. Those days are long gone. I am old enough to remember when "Made in JAPAN" on a product meant that it actually was cheap and poorly... | |
| Tube rolling newbie- how to choose NOS tubes Thanks all, I’ll look up Brent Jesse. I have to be careful as I have an additive personality and may get caught in the accumulating tubes rabbit hole. | |
| Incredible improvement in sound quality I use a Waterpik showerhead set to center pulsating blast to clean out my ear canal. A doctor would also use significant water pressure to clean ears. I figure that the initial air would cushion the eardrum, then column of water in the canal wou... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? Van Den Hul Grail - very quiet current mode, I have the SB model Esoteric E-02 - compares well to top phono stages- seems to be a sonic bargain | |
| Incredible improvement in sound quality Sometimes there’s a huge void behind the earwax. | |
| Tube rolling newbie- how to choose NOS tubes Thanks all for your advice, I'm learning a lot. This is my first experience with tubes so I'm in experimental mode to understand the sonic differences between tubes. I'll also be using my DAP as a SS desktop dac/amp to sonically compare. |