jwillox
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| Tube based phono stage @gestalt How much for the Tron Convergence Signature delivered to Seattle, WA, USA? | |
| Tube based phono stage @gestalt Are you High Water Sound in New York? | |
| Loudest Sound Ever? Lumen Field (Centurylink Field), Seahawks home games: sustained SPLs 125+ dB. I’ll watch at home thank you. Once in my youth I fired a 357 Magnum, having forgotten to put on ear protection - took two days to hear correctly, and likely did some lon... | |
| Welcome Back! I issued to sell a bunch of the ADS (A/D/S) which was a US distributed Braun. Nicely build home audio towers, with silk dome mids and tweets. These were really great sounding speaks. The ADS mobile stuff was the bomb. I had a tri-amped system ADS... | |
| Advice on a streamer I’ve used the Cocktail Audio n25 and the x45. Both decent streamers with decent DACs. Both these have a nice screen, and HDMI outs for your TV or AVR- a nice feature when you wan to browse from your listening position. Prices are reasonable. The C... | |
| Parasound Preamp I picked up an “Open box” deal awhile back. It’s a really nice pre, with good connectivity, and a descent DAC also. Very quiet background, nice remote and HT bypass. I have a Rel sub and have tested the sub-out with a longer balanced cable with im... | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? @johnspainI can relate, but I tried out the X45 and found it very interesting. I did not like the fit and finish too much, but did like main features - a biggie for me is simple access to “network shares” vs a requirement for a UPNP server runnin... | |
| Primaluna Evo 400 Preamp pairing with McIntosh MC1502 Most modern gear has compatible levels for pre-out and main-in. However, I had a dentist client that just bought a whole stack of Mac with Klipsch speakers. The speakers were quite efficient, not to mention the characteristics of horns. And since ... | |
| Sub placement So much to discuss regarding subs…technically (if your crossover is set correctly), the ear has no real ability to determine where the bass is coming from. However, that is over-simplistic. Best to allow the longer, low frequency wave have the lon... | |
| Parasound A21+ vs Adcom GFA-585se A21+ gets my vote here. | |
| Reasonably sensitive speakers for tube amps, max $2k/pair, new or used Monitor Audio Silver 300 - $2200/pair and lessClean design, nice tech, bi-wire/bi-amp reedy. A lot to great reviews. | |
| FEX EX Damaged New Legacy's Many sellers that offer free shipping are using FedEx Home Delivery. This is FedEx sort of, but the routes and their drivers are independent contractors. I had things track as in town, and even on the truck for delivery, but the driver was overwhe... | |
| Can we talk about Qobuz for a minute Deezer is interesting. It’s all HQ… I signed up for their 3 month free trial, but was billed immediately for the regular price. It took several “support” emails to figure that out. | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! @chayro exactly. I’m relatively new here, but doing decent audio/gear since ‘77…we all need to respect where people are in their journey - audio or life 🙏🏼❤️ | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? My DAC experience thus far is always with combinations of BluRay, Pre, and streamer. DAC implementations vary quite a bit. As many did, I started streaming with a Bluesound Node, then streamed with it to a DAC in my preamp - a noticeable improveme... |