patrickalston
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| Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess I'm an ecoterrorist. My system stays on 24/7 just because I don't feel like bending over to turn it off. . . but I have solar panels and extra tubes if any of the 60 or so go south on me. There are nights when my spinal stenosis and arthr... | |
| Are you a keeper or a flipper? I try to buy it right the first time. By once, cry once. I'll keep what I have until I can find something that I enjoy better and that I can afford. I'm a keeper. | |
| Your turntable history A Dual in the 80s. I forget the model number. Dr Feickert Volare as of about 6 months ago. Ive played one album on it. I mostly stream and have boxes and boxes of sealed, unplayed albums. | |
| why are sellers to be trusted, but buyers are not? The problem is that sellers expect buyers to purchase without recourse (e.g. Friends and Family). The risk is all on the buyer. Businesses (e.g., TMR) allow purchase by credit card giving the buyer some protection. I dont know what the answer i... | |
| BAT power amps Also, regarding Rex power amps, $8,000 is not going to get you there. Rex I amps go for about $10,000 to $12,000 give or take. With your budget you can look at the fantastic vk120 or the vk150 monoblocks. I own the VK 120 model blocks that have be... | |
| Spring Cleaning your system, how long does it take? @buellrider97 Thanx, I enjoy it everytime I listen. It has taken a lot of patience and almost 40 years to curate. My focus has been to make a components list and stick to it with no deviations. I never purchased something to get me over until I... | |
| Spring Cleaning your system, how long does it take? To heavy to move. I dust in place monthly and have an air filter that runs continuously. Amps are 100 lbs each, power conditioner = 83 lbs, DAC = 32 lbs, preamp = 80 lbs. I would never take any components outside for fear of dropping something or... | |
| Gone but not forgotten Boston Acoustics Acoustat | |
| DAC/Preamp quandry @wturkey wrote "Not going to beat the OP up with AI slop. Buy the WiiM" Sure, the WiiM is a great value and if the OP prioritizes features and price over sound quality, then he could buy the WiiM Ultra but (and I'm not throwing shade) let's not c... | |
| DAC/Preamp quandry Skip the WiiM. It’s a budget-oriented all-in-one with a basic volume control--it is not for resolving systems. It’s cheap and a good temporary solution. The A8 (which is what I use until I buy an Innuos) is in a different universe than the ... | |
| late to streaming, recommendations? Since you selected the lumin u2 streamer and suggested that at some point you'll be ready to upgrade your DAC, you may want to understand which output through which the lumin delivers its best for performance. Once you figure that out, select a DA... | |
| Streaming - getting set up @kirkwallace like I said, I'm just a stranger on the web. Nobody need listen to me My bigger point is that the suggestions offered by others may not be the best solutions to exploit the OP's DAC. I think that if the op asks AI the questions I sug... | |
| BAT power amps You've got a damn good amp, but if you're talking about a factory upgrade from SE to Rex, then no. There was it's replacement, the VK-255SE on TMR but it appears to be gone. What are you trying to achieve with an upgrade? You can upgrade the p... | |
| Streaming - getting set up My understanding is that the MPS-5 is a reference-level SACD player with a world class DAC section engineered by Andreas Koch, grandpappy of DSD and Dolby Digital Compression. Playback Design supplies boards for Nagra’s DAC and Balanced Audio Tec... | |
| Shunyata Venon V16 or Furman Elite 20pfi Well, I bought my Furman Reference 15 for about $400 used and have seen others price for under $1,000 over the last 6 months or so. You just have to be patient and not be willing to settle for something that doesn't do what you needed to do. The r... |