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| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? Thanks, Eric. Good point that i should check out whether the power conditioner is also a surge protector. I want both. David | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? Thanks, Bob. I will check out the Audioquest, which I know is sold by Music Direct who has sold me a whole bunch of things. I have read many audio reviews where the reviewer is using an Audioquest conditioner. They do get expensive, however. In my... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? Thanks lalitk, I will ask my dealer about an in-home demo. | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? I think I am really talking about power conditioners with surge protection. I am curious at what level of price (quality) I would notice the difference in my systerm. My local dealer carries Shunyata and says I would hear a big difference, but Shy... | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? I had an fairly inexpensive audio setup when I decided to get rid of my 100 or so albums and inexpensive turntable. An article by Michael Fraemer made me decide to take another look at analogue. The first thing I did was buy a better cable from th... | |
| Should I replace my 20-year-old Hovland Radia Amp? dekay and glennewick, I enjoyed the post on Hovland and their practices in making amps and preamps. I think I might fall into the kooky audiophile category. My Sonus Faber speakers are tuned by ear, not by specs. Although Paul Bolin gave the Hovla... | |
| Should I replace my 20-year-old Hovland Radia Amp? Lucky_dog7777, thank you for all that information. My Hovland is a heavy amp and I need help from younger, stronger neighbors to put it on the bottom shelf of my audio racks. I have a terrible back getting worse by the minute. Another problem in t... | |
| IS THE WEISS 204 A SUBSTANIAL UPGRADE FRON THE CHORD QUTEST knownothing I purchased an Audioquest USB cable. Probably not a very expensive one. I did not do anyhing else to optimize the DAC. I loved the sound until I compared it to the Moon 280 D. I didn't try playing with more expensive cables. | |
| Should I replace my 20-year-old Hovland Radia Amp? Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. Devinplombier, my SF Olympica Nova V speakers have three 7" woofers. I would like a bit more power, but I would say the Hovland handles them pretty well. Hovland is not known for its bass--more for its... | |
| Should I replace my 20-year-old Hovland Radia Amp? When I got the amp one channel went out after about six hours. I took it to a high-end audio technician. He charged me $800 dollars and said he'd replaced the bad parts. I hate to say that I know little about electronics. I really don't know the d... | |
| Should I replace my 20-year-old Hovland Radia Amp? I would like the idea of demoing an amp in my house except it would take weeks. When I got the Hovland Radia I compared it to my McCormack DNA-1 upgraded to what they called their gold level. It was like a new amp. The McCormack threw a lovely wal... | |
| Streamer apps critical The Moon Mind2 interface is really easy. I run Qobuz on my Moon 280D. The Mind2 interface runs on my iPad. I open Mind2 and search for an artist or composer or album. If I were to search for Paul Simon, for example, I see all of his albums on Qobu... | |
| IS THE WEISS 204 A SUBSTANIAL UPGRADE FRON THE CHORD QUTEST I recently traded in my Qutest for a fairly inexpensive streamer ($4K Moon 280D). I loved the Qutest until I compared it to the Moon. Perhaps the DAC in the Qutest is better on paper, but the dealer said that USB was not a good way to connect to a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I heard a young (36 years old) saxaphonist live recently. Her name is Melissa Aldana. I was very impressed because she had her own voice, with influences, of course, but like nothing I'd heard before. And it was a feminine voice in a genre of musi... | |
| Streamer Recommendations I recently purchased a Moon 280 D, the least expensive streamer in the Moon line at $4K. I compared it against my computer running Tidal into a Chord Qutest. I immeditately heard that the Moon was livlier, not nearly as dark as the computer Qutest... |