hickamore
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| Hunting Unicorns The current streamer/DAC/preamp is Cambridge 851N. It probably does wireless internet radio, but since audio is better from USB, I just use that for convenience since I need the laptop anyhow. | |
| A philosophical question. What music to play is one particular entry-point into sole philosophical question of humanity. Serenity is one's given equipoise between opposite, yet complementary, extremes: yin and yang. Everything is both true and false at once. "Life is too s... | |
| I am frustrated with the sound from my DAC Same experience here. Went from Cambridge with Wolfson to SABRE in Peachtree and never satisfied. Despite much higher price of the latter. Now changed back to the latest from Cambridge. Not near the end of the DAC road, but farther along. | |
| Non-rear ported Speakers A vote here for front ports. Rear ports need too much wall setback. And full enclosures, even with 22Hz bass, just sound boxy. Again, your results may vary, but those are mine. | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? Finally catching up with the audio world a decade ago, I started with electronics because my old stuff was totally analog. First came a digital preamp which the old dual mono power amp couldn't translate despite a high-end DAC. Got a contemporary ... | |
| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? Me too. Until you mentioned it, I had completely forgotten the name Advent. A black hole in the memory bank. Right . . . getting a fuzzy mental image now . . . but it was the intro to lower end of high end of forever long ago. Certainly equal to w... | |
| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? Me too. Until you mentioned it, I had completely forgotten the name Advent. A black hole in the memory bank. Right . . . getting a fuzzy mental image now . . . but it was the intro to lower end of high end of forever long ago. Certainly equal to w... | |
| Albums that you listen to straight through / start to finish whenever you put them on! Some pop LPs (meaning not symphonies, oratorios, concerti &c) were produced for continuous listening, and sometimes playing them straight through is worth doing for its own sake. Those named above are good examples.Yet who here doesn't have an... | |
| Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers Some people in here can get a date? | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? Sorry about open-ended "optimal." I should have said "example."And yes, on this prescription a different amp would be needed.Such as . . .?Thanks. | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? Active speakers not an option in my main system. Nor tube preamps in my secondary system. But I do get the idea, also why it could work for those otherwise situated. Very interesting about Space Tech. Need to read up on that, thanks. | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? atmasphereGiven that very helpful clarification, what would be your optimal components for a balanced line electronic chain (source - preamp - amp)? | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? Sounding better all the time. Thx! | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? rickytickytwo thanks for the info. Others have said that Tung-Sol are no longer supplied but agree with you, rolling to better tubes is easy and beneficial. So that is the plan for when I return from long travels. | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? dsper, thanks for sharing. I gather that PL may not be the quite the workhorse as Rogue, and that tube rolling is needed to get the desired qualities. At least this should be easy (if costly!) with PL. I don't mind a bit of warmth in the mids and ... |