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| Recommend a Pre/Pro for $250? Yup, the best you are going to do at your budget is getting an older Oppo BDP-93 bluray player. It's not the best solution, but it's the only one that's going to be in your price range.There are very limited HT pre/pro's that will do DSD over HDM... | |
| Upgrade Hint 6? Historically, the DAC section in the Parsound integrated has been a weak spot. While the new HINT 6 uses a different DAC chip (ESS), it is likely that they haven't upgraded the DAC circuit itself. Anyone have direct experience listening to the o... | |
| Dreaming of a DIY 8W Class A amp designed by Nelson Pass? @dgarretson - What Furutech connectors did you use? I don't see any DC connectors made by Furutech. The best I have seen is the Oyaide ones below:https://www.vhaudio.com/connectors-rcaxlr.html#OyaideDCBut they are gold-plated, which slows down a... | |
| Dreaming of a DIY 8W Class A amp designed by Nelson Pass? @dgarretson - you can test these Zerozone power supplies stock, but you can also upgrade the power cord and the fuse. In addition, I upgraded my DC output cables as well. I used a 5.5mm x 2.1mm DC plug from Digikey:https://www.digikey.com/produc... | |
| Anthem vs. Marantz for Focal speakers I'm not sure either option would be best for Focal. The Anthem is very clean and high resolution, but this type of match with Focal is generally not a good thing. The focal can be very bright/harsh with equipment that is too "solid state" soundi... | |
| Are there any Tool fans here? @ zyphryx - nope. I live in California and had a friend traveling to Arizona. I asked him to get me a couple bottles of the wine. They don't do straight cabs anymore. It's all blends of one sort or another.On another note: Ironically, some of... | |
| speaker break in It depends on how much resolution your system has. On extremely high resolution and revealing systems, you may have to go 200-300 hours. On warmer and softer systems, 100 hours is probably fine. One thing you need to know is the speaker defini... | |
| Bryston or Aragon wow, you guys are really bashing Aragon. But forget that the 4BST is already 20 years old! Sure, it can be fixed, but it's just as old as the Aragon 8008BB. I'm sure the Aragon can be fixed as well. Not sure if Aragon is actually out of busin... | |
| Are there any Tool fans here? As a side digression, many people just don't like metal and think it's a bunch of losers. However, if you really pay attention to the video below, you will see how complex and talented these musicians are. The drummer (original drummer) is an ab... | |
| asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps By the way, I have tried and worked with a great many op amps over the years trying to find the best configuration. I have ended up running a combination of Burson V6 Vivid fet-based op amps and Sonic Imagery 994Enh bipolar op amps (not recommend... | |
| asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps The STX II uses two MUSES 8920 for the DAC I/V stage. These have a slew rate of 25V/us (on the fast side).However, the output opamp is a MUSES 8820 (outputs to the RCA connectors) has a rather slow slew rate of 5V/us. This will roll off the high... | |
| Are there any Tool fans here? My point about judging the demise of our civil society based upon ten-year increments in music? ... I rest my case. :-) You know what? Every generation says this same thing about the "young kids". I don't really agree with this because the "b... | |
| Are there any Tool fans here? Hey guys, if you're not a Tool fan, there's no reason to digress this thread into some other kind of topic.As far as the OP is concerned, I actually like the Mer De Noms album by A Perfect Circle (Maynard's other group), especially Magdelena.Altho... | |
| The Home Theater Company Collusion Theory Yup, agreed. A primary reason that big company receivers are so cheap in comparison is that they can sell tens of thousands of units. If you look at a pre/pro by the same company, generally it still has a good expense to manufacturer, but they w... | |
| Dreaming of a DIY 8W Class A amp designed by Nelson Pass? @lewinskih01 - that's not really the best power supply here on ebay. You should search through all the Zerozone power supplies. I think those are usually the better ones for an audio device such as DAC or preamp because they usually have better ... |