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| Best amp for Polk LSi15 Any amp that is able to drive 4ohm loads and is not overly warm sounding. | |
| LSA audio or AYON for Acoustic Zen Crescendos I've heard an Ayon Triton powering a pair of Crescendos before and it sounded wonderful. | |
| Ayon Triton the best tubes amp in the market? Ayon Triton doesn't seems to change hands often. It's not easy to find a good deal in the used market, and they seemed to be sold fast.And there's good reason for that, they're great sounding amps. | |
| Blue Moon Award for Burson Audio's new DAC/Preamp It has a very similar sound to the W4S's DACs. The biggest differences I found were in the low end and overall dynamics. The Wyred unit has a more powerful low end, while the Burson's low end was a little thinner but slightly more articulate. I al... | |
| Blue Moon Award for Burson Audio's new DAC/Preamp It's a very nice sounding unit. | |
| Cambridge 840C DACs vs. Wyred vs. Eastern Electric I've owned an 840C and Wyred DAC-1/2. The 840C does sound nice, but I found it lacking in the mid/upper bass and the spacial info wasn't up to snuff(DACMagic imaged better). Neither of the Wyred DACs suffer from either of those issues. | |
| You can only keep one pair of speakers on the list TL tweeters are $100 shipped for the pair, crossover upgrade would cost anywhere from $100 to a few hundred. IMO, 2B TL's are the best sounding SDA's. | |
| You can only keep one pair of speakers on the list Upgrade the 2B's to TL status, sell everything else and you'll never look back. | |
| Spending on dac vs amp A $250 DAC in a $8,000 rig, you're joking right?It all starts at the source, why skimp there? NOS and newer cheap wall wart P/S DACs can't compete with newer high res DACs, there's no comparison.I'd suggest a 30/20-25/25 for an Integrated/DAC. The... | |
| Now that "Black Gates" are no longer available, Roger, It's been a while since I've used them, I only remember they were one of the premium lines for the signal path. I found them dark and unexciting and only slightly better than the generic electrolytic caps they replaced. They didn't live up... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Peak Consult also uses Duelund crossover parts.FYI, my girlfriend's $200 Cambridge Audio bookshelf speakers even use Bennic film caps. Something is wrong if speakers costing 100 times as much are using parts of the same quality. | |
| Peachtree Decco Preamp Issue???? I had the same issue with my Nova. | |
| Now that "Black Gates" are no longer available, There's still plenty of options, Jensen, Mundorf, Nichicon FG and Nichicon KZ. I also found BG over rated. | |
| Silver wiring for interconnects I've been using Neotech 20-24ga chassis wire for balanced interconnects and am very pleased with the sound. FYI, I wouldn't advice anything smaller than 28ga for an interconnect as it's quite fragile. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Tom, I have the same experience when bypassing in speaker crossovers. And after experiencing MR and CAST caps, I find the S/O to be one of most over rated caps for speaker crossovers. Otherwise, my experiences mirror Undertow's. |