technomagus
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| Power Cable Suggestions. My own experience suggests that the mechanical integrity of cable, plugs and screening are what matters most. I make my own mains cables from Lapp Olflex 110 and Martin Kaiser silver plated plugs - they just work. | |
| Speaker hunt -> To leave or not Leave Martin Logan Behind I’ve had MLs (currently Spire) for 26 years. Like you I was using them with Mark Levinson amplification (331) and recognise that feeling of long-listen fatigue, set against the incomparable staging, transparency and clarity of the electrostatics. ... | |
| Eversolo Streamer Help! My Gustard A26 went south after about six months. Gustard were exactly as you describe Eversolo - they couldn’t have given a damn. Also bought through Amazon though (in the UK) and, after a little to and fro with Amazon support, I got a full refun... | |
| Tube Phono Stage Recommendations Any particular reason to exclude Pro-Ject? I have their Tube Box DS3 B - using with my balanced wired tonearm and am very pleased with it. | |
| PSVane KT150 Revitalising this thread: PSVane finally got their Horizon KT150s back to market after revising the design. And sent me a set. This set worked well in my V110SE - I gave them 50 or so hours to settle in, then made some comparisons with a new set o... | |
| Roon After 3 Years: The Rolls Royce of Streaming I Didn’t Know I Needed Early adopter, and bought a lifetime license in 2018. Very glad I did - it’s had a few hiccups along the way, but is now pretty much rock solid, and is serving off an M4 Mini, driving multiple Roon Ready devices and a bunch of Pi streamers around ... | |
| Favorite Streamer/DAC combo under 3k? When I was auditioning DAC/Streamers, I listened to quite a number at different prices. The real standout for me at even vaguely that price point was the Teac UD-701N - it uses the same main board as the big Esoteric DAC and sounds absolutely supe... | |
| Streamers - Auralic, Aurender, Lumin, others... Having used, auditioned and built multiple streamers and Roon cores over the last few years, I have to comprehensively disagree with the sneering negativity I’ve seen from some towards the Mac Mini: my experience is that it’s a solid, well designe... | |
| Cloud storage for 8TB of music files on an external HD Both professionally and personally, I've been moving away from cloud storage - I've been a paying Dropbox user for 15 years but now, they've (IMHO) lost the plot in terms of basic functionality and performance, so am in the process of ditching the... | |
| Just Get A Better DAC? When it came to upgrading the DAC/streaming side of my system, I was moving from a Roon playout chain of an Intel Mac Mini, running Roon and HQPlayer to a Gustard A26 over the network connection. That in turn had been an upgrade from lossless iTun... | |
| Old SS amps I bought my Quad 303 new in 1978. It was still sounding great when I had it serviced by Quad in 2021. My Sumo Polaris II was untouched and working beautifully when I sold it in 2023, at 28 years old. I bought a recapped Mark Levinson 331 in 2020 -... | |
| DAC suggestions? In that price range, the best DAC I’ve auditioned is the Teac UD-701N - fantastic open sound, lovely build quality and built-in streamer. It also works well with HQPlayer, if you want to go down that route. (It uses the same main board as the $15k... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? 1. 25 November 1973. Mott the Hoople concert in Edinburgh. Their support act was a largely unknown bunch of theatrical, Lycra-clad rockers, who got boo’d by the audience of cool dudes when they came on. An hour-and-a-half later, Mott the Hoople go... | |
| Does the Mark Levinson 331 suck? I had a 331 until a couple of years ago. Other than being a pain to move around, it was an excellent amp (fully serviced and recapped). Effortlessly powerful, neutral, analytical and drove my Martin Logans or Spendors very well indeed. So why did ... | |
| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? This may not be my actual end game amp, but I certainly wouldn’t be disappointed if it were: Octave v110SE with KT150s and the Super Black Box cap bank. About £11k in the UK and it comprehensively saw off my Mark Levinsons. |