joeycastillo
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| Is bi amping worth it ? an interesting thread. as others have posted. Bi-amping has a lot of plus and minus and it all depends on what you are targeting to solve or improve. for me, I had the weird idea of biamping the ATC speakers. what I did was to use the X150 to dr... | |
| Can I get my Prima Luna to sound more like a SET/300B? Hey OP i hope that your tube rolling will turn out successful. I heard that Ray reserved tubes are very good tubes, I hope it turns out alright I don’t have a 300B amp, but my audiophile nephew has one, I believe a JELabs designed 300b and using... | |
| SOLVED: Room boom Hello All as @r27y8u92 just posted, an important topic to learn I, myself was guilty that Gear solves all the problems. well, that is not completely true. encountered this same boom issue with my REL subs. Using UMIK and REW, i discovered my boo... | |
| New Turntable. OP how about a Rega planar 1? check it out in amazon good luck | |
| Single driver full range speakers Hi OP I have encountered the same question to me by another audiophile friend, as some have posted above, the speaker I was asked my opinion was a Reference 3A De Cappo driven by JELabs 300B. those are a wonderful match but lacking lower bass pow... | |
| Pass Labs xa-25 or Coda Continum #8 OP all of the above are great post. I have not heard a Coda, but I am a pass labs kind of guy However, I notice that your previous gear is a tube 300B. I own an Audio note clone 845 based SET and before I purchased this unit, it was a shoot o... | |
| Speaker recommendations welcomed I am partial to ATC as I own one. ATC are very precise and presents music as how it was recorded. with the correct power amp. it will sing. as you have stated you want front standers. the ATS scm 40 will do the job. NOW, another option is to go ac... | |
| Integrated Headphone amp with moving coil phono stage Hi OP This may be $$$ but the Mark and Levinson No 523 has the phono pre-amp. headphone driver and quite possibly the balance control you all needed If this fits what you need, please check this out. Mark Levinson #523: 6-input dual mono Pre... | |
| Linear power supply Sbooster. | |
| Qobuz Connect I don't have Qobus, but I am a Tidal subscriber. I want to share that Tidal would also on some occasions stop mid-stream. and yes, I know it's not my home network, but Tidal. FYI | |
| Do you recall "instant improvement" from your first stand-alone DAC ? OP just to add more to my post above, my first DAC was a Chord Mojo, then tried SMSL, then Chord Qu test, then went up the Denafrips food chain Ares and finally Venus. All these aforementioned DACS presented music on its own way. Some say most ... | |
| Should I move on from my Hagerman Trumpet MC Phono Pre? i suggest 1) RCA clear Tops 2) Telefunken IMHO, both can present something opposite each other. but you are now at the point of mixing tubes to create the synergy you want. Also, the SBooster will do wonders on the Trumpet. | |
| You are there vs. They are there in my opinion. They are there. is how I would express it BUT with a bit of flavor. The players are in your room, but with space and dimensionality, not just there but with space amongst the instruments and vocalist. I would like to best describ... | |
| My impressions of the much Hyped LAIV Harmony DAC (I ordered one and Listened to it.) Thank you for the heads-up OP I tend to agree that most of this new Chi-Fi newcomers have some agenda that turns the table to them for financial gains. I feel for you. $320 for returns is a lot of $$$ for a $2600 product. Currently i am using Den... | |
| quicksiver V4's Hi @ant818 i have not heard a quicksilver amp play, I just know the brand. I am interested to know how it sounds. does it need speaker that is sensitive? any insight is great. a friend wants my advice for this brand thank you |