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| Aliexpress Marketplace practices, be for warned. well your dealing with Aliexpress what did you expect. | |
| To all you Cary SLI 80 owners, I'm looking for tube suggestions anything is better then the JJ's. JJ's are a reliable new production tube that are not bad just not great. gold lion kt77's are a replacment in most amps for EL34's but they are not a EL34 sonding tube more modern and detailed sounding but less ... | |
| UPGRADE PATH FROM CHORD QUTEST DAC Find a used Chord Dave, you shuold be able to get one in your budget or very close to it, then you will never need another DAC upgrade. I sold mine a few months back for $6500 canadian under your $5000usd budget. Thats a world class DAC ($15000usd... | |
| IsoAcoustics GAIA I found more of a differance due to the hight change then anything else when i installed them. I don't understand how a wobly system like the gia's can increase bass definition, etc,etc. They definelty helped with noise transfer to other rooms sp... | |
| Klipsch La Scala or Altec 838 speakers Altecs are more relaxed then the laScalas will be in my experiance. Tha said you need to consider rebuilding/restoring either. i did some Lascalas a few ywears ago and after a upgrade and restoration they were much better then original. For t... | |
| What's Up With Jane's Addiction? bunch of petty babies if you ask me, getting into a fight on stage because of the sound guys bad mixing. just retire already if you cant get along. | |
| Who uses ADS Speakers now 2024, and i have L910's and L710's and still love them, i dont thnk I could not own a set of ADS speakers. SureI now use them in a second system. | |
| Best low budget speakers for a Levinson 383 Integrated amp this may sound like a funny suggestion but can i recommened something vintage? maybe somethng to change the mood in this set up. Look for some vintage A/D/S three way design speakers. They are all quite good and well within your budget. I think ... | |
| How do you add remote control to a preamp, here's how. why do you need the second preamp? why not run the passive directly to your amp? | |
| NEW FTC Amplifier Law it seems to be a good thing keeping all the manufacturers marketing sections in check from scamming us. There are enough people out there that have no idea what numbers they are looking at, and at what reference those numbers are held. Just hang ... | |
| Upgrading from. Rega Planar 6 to a Planar 8?? there are many good mods to do to your P6 prior to upgrading, you may not want to bother upgrading after some of them. google upgrades for youer P6 and see whats available. My friend did a few of the popular ones on his and it was a good improveme... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. its also the demographic that can afford most of the stuff we call audiophile equipment. Also Audiophiles have made a bad name for themselves with their silliness and absolute snobbery to younger generations as a whole, not everyone of course but... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Personally I like a head amp/phono stage with LOMC over a SUT. A good gain stage to me sounds better then a SUT. A good analogy would be an active preamp compared to a passive preamp. Both can be great under the right build quality and situation... | |
| KEF LS60 WIRELESS + KC62 SUB OR HEGEL H390/KEF R7 META + KC62 SUB? Most will say the separates i.e. passive set up. But the advantage of the active system is you get a tuned amp-speaker combo that's been optimized for the drivers and cabinet combo. If done right that can out perform passive set ups. you just loos... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? I like the idea of tube connectors, striped down bananas. but i use bananas primarily. |