glenmschneider
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| Experience up-leveling streaming with USB cables? JCAT reference usb | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? I’ve had 2 that I love. Very sorry to have sold the pearl acoustics Sibelius. Sold to fund new purchase. Very unexpectedly full sound down below 40hz in a reasonable sized room. Second is a fostex BLH from Joseph Crowe Audio. This can be a DIY. ... | |
| Speakers for low-level listening I have a pair of Joseph Crowe 2095 horns that sound magnificent, dynamic, and full at low levels. Much of my listening is done late in the evenings. see my profile for pics, but in general I think this supports the suggestion and benefit of horns... | |
| Looking for High Quality Streamer Only Options (NO DAC)? Add me to the auralic G2.1 camp. It’s a great streamer with a reasonably good native app. I opted for this over some other choices based on availability of WiFi as some others have noted. | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? I had two great sounding systems in my house. The main system was substantially more expensive than my second system. My main is using an Auralic g2.1 (G1.1 at the time of comparison) while my second system was using a Node. here’s the odd thing ... | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? Auralic Aries G2.1 via lightning app into a Sonnet Pasithea DAC. outstanding realism, detail and timbre. streamer Upgraded from node to auralic g1.1 to 2.1 Dac upgraded from Parasound to Rockna Wavelight to Pasithea using 45 tubes into c... | |
| DeVore O/93 or PureAudioProject Duet15 for a First Watt SIT-3? +1 jond i heard the PAP at CAF in 2 rooms. I expected the downstairs room with VPI to be amazing but unfortunately it was one of the few rooms i really disliked. I had a pair of Spatial X5s OBs for a couple of years and largely enjoyed them w... | |
| Speaker List narrowed down… I heard a pair of yg acoustics at CAF powered by a Bermeister integrated and it was my favorite room of the show for a normal home size room. | |
| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? Spatial Audio lab produces dual 300b monoblocks designed by Don Sachs, ‘Blackbirds’ 24wpc. | |
| Where to purchase cables? I used the cable company lending library to evaluate numerous cables. Prices are reasonable and you have a couple of weeks to evaluate; but then I’ve mostly bought used. | |
| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui Congratulations on your retirement and you fabulous system. May you enjoy lots of years of health and good music. I’m still a couple of years away but planning I and love hearing these insights. Glen | |
| Paul Speltz Zero-Box Autoformer With Tenor OTL I’ve read numerous reviews on these as I was considering them at some point to for my setup and the reviews were very positive. There is also a substantial window to return if they don’t help. In my case, I spoke with Paul and he recommended tryin... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first +1 for Calvinandhobbes. cable upgrades on my DAC and Power amps provided different forms of improvement. my DAC needed filtering to remove harshness and clean up the sound. My amps needed a more open current flow. My power cables did not work w... | |
| power cable tryout High fidelity cables has me wondering..... need suggestions now One thing I leaned in experimenting with cables is that the cables that sounded best to me in my amps and preamps were not the same that sounded best in my source components. Im using cables made by Triode Lab for my Triode Lab monoblocks and for... | |
| Clipping with Separates with change of Power Conditioner[?] Alpha Audio did live stream testing of multiple power conditioners and found that their success varied greatly with the types of power issues they had at each location and varied with the components they were conditioning. Basically the takeaway w... |