knotscott
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| Need help choosing my first amp for my first speakers How big is your room, how loud do you want to play? Those should have some excellent midrange clarity and sound stage, but aren’t likely to "rock the house" as-is....I’d want to put a nice tube amp on them to get the most from what they do best, ... | |
| What the Best Dac have you heard or owned. How could you tell it was that good. An inexpensive Topping E30 is the only separate DAC I’ve ever owned. I hooked it up to a nearly 30 year old Denon CD player, and it simply sounded clearer to me compared to the built in DAC in the Denon. Along with clarity comes a host of other de... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s I've been extremely pleased with the sound of the VTA mods on my Dyna 70s. They offer a few other models including monoblocks rated at 125 wpc. From $2100 in kit form (+ S/H and tubes) or $3k assembled (+ S/H and tubes). https://www.tubes4hifi... | |
| Holst The Planets Will have to look into that one. In January I had the pleasure of hearing the Rochester Philharmonic play The Planets, joined by a local women's choir that my daughter was in, so it was a memorable night for us. | |
| Component contributions to “sound stage” As mentioned, the soundstage is in the recording. The components either reveal or obscure that to some degree, so they all matter. | |
| My end game speaks. Never heard the S7, but Magico S5 MKII powered by Convergent amps are among the best sounding speakers I've heard. | |
| Limiting a full range driver I would just keep the low pass setting of the sub at it's lowest setting (many are 40 or 50hz) to keep it well out of the lower male vocal range, which typically starts around 80hz, but some basement dwellers can get near 60hz. I would only att... | |
| SEEKING ADVICE: Which component would you upgrade first? Speakers often have the most impact on the system. Find something you love that works well in your room, and that can be driven by your amp. Lots of great deals on used speakers in most markets. A cart upgrade is a never a bad idea! 😎 | |
| First Bi Amping Experience What sort of improvements are you hearing in your system after the bi-amping? | |
| First Bi Amping Experience Are you running the Crown amp on the woofers, and mid/tweeters with the Coda? | |
| A little test Love the album. | |
| For the love of...kits? @jodeven I have been tossing around the idea of modifying my Thiel CS2 2 with an external crossover using upgraded crossover parts. But the big change would be to modify the design of the crossover for Bi-amping. Then design and build a tube am... | |
| Monitor Audio G4 Gold 100 or Proac Studio125? It’s personal, subjective, and very room dependent. Try them both, and keep the ones you love the sound of in that setup. | |
| For the love of...kits? My first kits were a Hafler DH500 amp and DH100 preamp....did the kit to save a few bucks, and learned a lot. Later on I modded the power supply of the amp by increasing the filter capacitance of a couple of amps. After I inherited my Dyna 70, I ... |