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| Speakers sound too bright. Your Schitt Yggy may be the problem. I once had a chance to compare one of those with my old Peachtree DAC and a $6000 PS Audio DAC. Much of the crowd that day liked my Peachtree best and the PS Audio a close second. I preferred the PS Audio a ... | |
| Surprised at how turntable sounds Iʻm a boomer and last year sold off my entire record collection and table. I had about a dozen recordings in both vinyl and digital formats. There were things I liked about each better than the other, but in the end, the differences really were m... | |
| Longevity of ownership Yup. Most all of it now. I run a VTA SP-13 tube preamp (10 years), a Peachtree iTx DAC (10 years) a B&K AV1260 12 channel 60 wpc power amp (20 years) and a set of Linkwitz Orions with active crossover (20 years). Like any audiophile, I have... | |
| CD/SACD player Under $4000 I gave up my CD player years ago and just ripped everything to hard disk. Bits is bits. The difference between CD players is in whatever DAC they have built internally. Rip to hard drive and run a good DAC. | |
| Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups The level of markups has been well known for the last 50 years. What never stops surprising me is how many still happily pay them. The DIY crowd has long side-stepped this buy building their own loudspeakers and electronics. Even the good kit s... | |
| Do you buy new, used or new or used gear? Probably the very, very best value in audio is a quality used DIY gear. I have a pair of DIY SEAS Thor loudspeakers I got from a professional cabinet maker who was downsizing his living situation. For those of you not familiar with the SEAS Thor... | |
| $35000 to $40,000. speakers what would you buy and why? I wouldnʻt buy any of them. With that kind of budget, Iʻd pitch out everything I had and drop $16k on a set of the Dutch & Dutch 8c. Done. | |
| Best bang for the buck I run a set of Linkwitz Orions, which being multi-amplified, call for 8 channels at 60 wpc. I paid all of $500 for a 12 channel B&K MOSFET amp back in 2008. Still running it today. Sounds great. | |
| Best concert you've attended @coltrane1 I grew up in San Francisco. I was 16 years old at the time of The Summer of Love. I was a very straight kid. Iʻve never done any kind of drugs. But I couldnʻt help but be influenced by the whole counter-culture scene. Keystone ... | |
| Best concert you've attended Hard to say. The very first concert I ever went to was Seiji Ozawa conducting the San Francisco Symphony in an all-Stravinsky program of: "LʻHistoire du Soldat" "The Rite of Spring" Pretty good, wouldnʻt you say? I used to spend a lot of time ... | |
| Do you buy gear new, used, both? Iʻve always tended to go with value. I want the most sound for my limited audio buck. I bought my tube preamp and DAC new. I play all of my digital stuff off of a Linux based miniPC I recently built from new hardware. My loudspeakers came with... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming "...just wondering if you ever feel if it's worth all the extra work." Nope. | |
| Do You Regret Selling Your Turntable and Albums ? The first time I bought a record, Lyndon Johnson was president. At one point, I had some 1300 albums in the collection. I pitched out about half of them about 15 years ago because we were living in house that just didnʻt have room for them. Iʻv... | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @lals Yes. The MC275 is the amplifier. One last caution. Many in this community endlessly pursue perfection, instead of pure enjoyment. The C22 and MC275 will both be very good and give you excellent enjoyment. The phono section of the C22 ... | |
| Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp @lals As with any vintage equipment, you need to have a good service technician you can rely on. Some sellers are audio shops that first service a piece and will charge a bit more than an individual. Whatever sale ad your looking at will likely ... |