chenry
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| What would you save in a fire? Clothes on my back, a couple of days worth of clothing. Any money, some small sentimental items, a watch, my laptop and phone. Peeps and pets. Old family photos. Everything else is replaceable. | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? "But folks, you can rent virtually anything - cars, dump trailers, DJ equipment, $50k RED cinema cameras, boats, Ferraris, someone’s personal house, etc. Seems like the only thing you can’t rent is hifi gear. " Not really the same. If I am a land... | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? Camera rentals are usually done by pros who need a specific piece of gear for a short-term project. Lots of professional equipment is rented this way. A DAC at $14K (ridiculous, IMO) is rented to someone who wants to hear a particular piece of ge... | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? No. And it might have been $14K to the initial purchaser, but rental value would be calculated on used fair market value since a used article is what is rented. And then there is the issue whether any DAC is worth $14K given the considerably lower... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Have you checked out the offerings by bottlehead? | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing Pro Ject Pre Box RS2 Digital. Balanced I/O, dual DAC, headphone amp, selectable tube output, remote. I pair one of mine with a NAD C298 Purifi digital amp, another with a set of Buchardt actives. | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS Omega Speaker Systems Super Alnico Monitor. | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS JBL 4349. | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? A pair of small actives and a capable small preamp (with tube section), dual DAC, headphone amp: Buchardt A500, ProJect Pre Box RS2, add streamer (WiiM, Sonos or Bluesound) and done. For much less money: WiiM streamer + Q Acoustics M20 + powered s... | |
| Will an Amp change improve my system ? Your system seems already thoughtfully worked through with very good quality components. The Freya+ is an excellent preamp in the kind of system you have, it affords you three different processing modes, two with gain, one with tube gain and tube ... | |
| Will an Amp change improve my system ? "I like my current system and wonder if an amp change would improve it significantly ?" Probably not. If you are using the Schiit front end components and already are using the tube section on your Freya+, adding more tube amp effect or Class-... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” McIntosh MA 8950. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Heaven-11 Billie. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Sugden A21SE Signature. | |
| Enough is Enough You are asking a barber if you need a haircut. |