jfuquay
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| Used PS Audio Items When I traded in a piece of Musical Fidelity gear for a new PS Audio product, they told me the trade-in would be resold thru The Music Room, which is near by. I now have three items from PS Audio and n repair needs. Good folks. | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I find attending a live orchestral performance a unique sound experience because of how much more involving it is for the listener. I can think of some composers, like Mahler or Shostakovich, whose compositions can be so complex that listening at ... | |
| Warmer class D amps for magnepan? I use a Rogue Sphinx and REL 9x sub with my Magnepan .7s. Very good combo for the acoustic music listening I do 95% of the time. I really think the use of a tube input stage can be beneficial with Class D power. Several makers doing that now. But ... | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan Per the comment from optimise regarding BHK and Paul McGowan. Maybe you noticed this week that Gregg Popovich made the NBA Hall of Fame. Pop never scored a single point, or grabbed a rebound or had an assist. All he did was build and cmaintain one... | |
| Streaming Dac $5000-8000 +1 on the new PS Audio Directstream. I have the first version with streamer card option and it’s simply outstanding. The free updates can really add improvements over the years as well. | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? I’m going to say that getting to 80% is fairly easily done in electronics, especially solid state. I don’t think there are that many secrets in circuits or components, having built five DIY amps and preamps, mostly Pass designs. But I don’t think ... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions I had a college friend share his appreciation of classical music with me. Since it sounds you’re beyond that, I’d now say to find a copy of Ted Libby’s NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection. (Ignore the “CD” part of the title.) The great... | |
| Pass Labs Speaker Choices The first Magnepans I ever heard were driven by a First Watt amp, I forget which one. The owner thought it showed that a good power supply and solid engineering provided plenty of juice if you weren’t aiming for rock concert sound levels. I took i... | |
| How Did Your First Audiophile Experience Impact Your Audio Journey? During summers at home during college, I worked with a guy who lived on some acreage outside of town. At some point during the season it would be time to cut and bale his hay, and I would help Perry, a wiry little man with a withered leg who never... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I like the sound of Class A and also Magnepan speakers. So a dilemma. My solution is low-power Pass diy amps with high-sensitivity speakers for casual listening around the house, and a Class D amp with tube front end driving the Maggies in my list... | |
| How many people do you think have the same DAC, amplifier, and speakers I don’t know, but my local audio group meets this weekend and our host has my DAC, a PS Audio Directstream. I’m really eager to hear how the rest of the (much more expensive) system plays it. | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts Djones51: almost, but not quite. First you have to believe that our measurement technology perfectly represents human hearing. Of course it doesn’t. A sound wave hits a microphone and is interpreted by a machine. The same sound wave hits an ear dr... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts Much of this falls under what the late scientist Steven Jay Gould called “argument from personal incredulity.” That means a person simple cannot accept the truth of something because it is so far outside their personal experience or prejudices tha... | |
| Is there such a thing as a FOREVER DAC/streamer? My DAC is my most expensive component, a PS Audio Directstream w/ streamer card. And I’m glad because streaming is more and more of my listening. It’s software-based, and they’ve issued a number of updates that are easy to make with just an SD car... | |
| Magnepan .7 Alternatives While I like my .7s, what I really like is acoustic music. I honestly don’t think they are the best choice for amplified rock and the like. Also, when I auditioned the .7 at a local dealer (lucky me!) with a Rogue Sphinx, a Node was the source. I ... |