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| How competitive are you with your system? In those sort of crazy car stereo competitions, there was a criteria and a fixed goal--how loud can you get your system to play. But, unless you have that same criteria for your home audio, I don't see it as a competition is there is no way to es... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Mine is not competitive at all. It just sits there unmotivated until I turn it on. I suspect that it is putting in minimum effort to please me. it is like owning a cat. Still, I do like it a lot. What would my system be competing for anyway, ... | |
| Luxman 509z or Aesthetix Mimas I’ve heard the 30.2 with either an Audio Note Soro or Oto integrated amp and with the Synthesis A40 and A100 integrated tube amp. All sounded good. These two Synthesis amps are among my favorite integrated amps—warm, bold, punchy, and a sense of... | |
| Luxman 509z or Aesthetix Mimas I like the Harbeth 30.2 a lot. I know Harbeth pushes solid state and a lot of power for their speakers, but, I've heard the 30.2 with medium powered tube amps and I like that combination a lot. I would not overlook tube integrated amps in the 30... | |
| New vs uses in your current setup Much of my gear is both new and used simultaneously. My amp and linestage, for example is "new" in that a custom builder made it for me, but virtually all of the parts in it are used and vintage, some transformers being as much as 80 years old or... | |
| Yamaha HX-10000 phonostage, any views? I could not think of what it utilized that was non-compliant, except for lead in solder. Their phono stage was NOT battery based; it had a massive separate power supply. Maybe ROHS was an excuse for ceasing production, for all I know. I wish I... | |
| Yamaha HX-10000 phonostage, any views? Lyra once made a phono stage, the Lyra Connoisseur (based on design purchased from Mares), that was an all out assault on the state of the art. I got to hear this extremely lively and vivid sounding phono stage. Lyra stopped production claiming ... | |
| MBL Insolvent Sad news indeed. We don’t know what went wrong and it is not fair to second guess their business decisions that got them to this point. Even though I did not like all aspects of their sound (a touch too hard and metallic sounding), they certainl... | |
| Seeking horn array loudspeakers with a maximum price of $17,500.00 per pair. I think it is helpful to know of non-horn alternatives that deliver similar sound. While I am a fan of certain field coil drivers, the ones I like are above the $17,500 price range. Also, it would be helpful if specific speaker models or drivers... | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? Alex, You raised good points about 300B driver stage design. Unfortunately, many utilize 12AX7 drivers and no interstage transformers. Hence, it remains the case that many 300B amps are a bit polite, dynamically speaking, but 300B amps are fav... | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? I know you are trying to minimize coloration by utilizing a passive linestage, but, ultimately, the goal is to achieve the best sound by assembling good and compatible components. The challenge with passive linestages is a loss of dynamics—the so... | |
| Seeking horn array loudspeakers with a maximum price of $17,500.00 per pair. The Edgarhorns I heard were very good sounding; they lacked the peaky midrange sound of some horn systems. | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? Transformer/autoformer attenuators do a better job of preserving dynamics and sounding vivid than other types. Instead of burning off the signal in a resistor, transformers reduce voltage by converting it to increased current. Because of complex... | |
| Metal or Carbon Resistors - Which is better? For some passive linestages, the resistors are almost the whole game—they have a few switches/selector, and attenuation means a stepped attenuator or relay switching of different combination of resistors. The right choice is important. | |
| Seeking horn array loudspeakers with a maximum price of $17,500.00 per pair. You are looking for something that sounds good at most volume levels. That is one of the major strengths of horn systems. But, it is also the strength of other types of speakers like the backloaded horn full range driver system like those from C... |