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| Boulder 866 experience? Users? Yes, in regards to the Technics SU-R1000 there's a local dealer who expects to get one in, I will definitely go give it a listen.Another integrated which I heard a few years ago at a show and which managed to turn my head was the Mark Levinson No.... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? It's a little surprising that Purifi would release a compromised product to the public to represent their brand. I guess I'll look into a input upgrade then. It's just there's no way anyone with any kind of good amp experience would think this is ... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? Okay...I'm done with this amp. I tried listening to King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic, and right on the first track the part with the rattler/shaker percussion thing...it doesn't sound like an actual instrument but like a diffuse low-resoluti... | |
| Boulder 866 experience? Users? 1. Devialt: class D so it can go to hell.2. darTZeel: never heard one but you can get really cheap clones off AliExpress.3. Boulder: this unit also interests me and reviews are universally positive. What bothers me though are the internals: it doe... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" So, digital isn't a perfect representation of a sinewave. A sinewave isn't a perfect representation of a sound wave either but since its the only way to translate audio we'll leave that alone. Digital audio has quantization errors. It's just a fac... | |
| Speaker upgrade Why are so many people promoting JA? These are off-the-shelf parts standard speaker designs. Which is fine, but it seems like a LOT of money for what is essentially premium DIY speakers. | |
| Accuphase pricing Japan vs. USA For Accuphase consider AliExpress, lots of clones floating around. Also Pass, Krell, Naim, darTZeel, FM Acoustics. Some older ARs. Mark Levinson. You can get a A65 clone, for example, for peanuts. | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 There's simply no way a traditional 2-way mini-monitor is worth $9k. If I wanted a premium DIY build I could get that for a quarter of that price. | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" It's written by someone who wants to explain why vinyl sounds better without knowing why it is so, and so pads it out with philosophy and a partially-understood discussion on digital. The superiority of vinyl doesn't have anything to do with the o... | |
| High end Class D amps? Missing from the calss D story is, of course, the linear A/B amp is what allows for such a great stereo image. Note the story stops at having purchased the preamp. I trialed a dual-mono stereo D-Sonic; didn't like it so sent it back. I recall bein... | |
| High end Class D amps? So, uh, why can't anyone ever describe what their mind-blowing revelatory class D amp sounds like vs what linear amps they own? I do that all the time. | |
| McIntosh fuse changeout to make better sound Okay so, about fuse upgrades.I have a HARD time believing in them. Setting aside the physics involved and the fact that they sit on the outside of the power supply, I noticed that they are heavily marketed by Synergistic Research -- which is a sca... | |
| High end Class D amps? @greenwichct How does it compare to linear amps? What's your frame of reference? | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? Another interesting finding. I decided to swap out my reference power delivery to the amp: LessLoss level 1 power filtering cable + Firewall 64x from a Furutech GTX-D(r) NCF outlet to a standard black 14-guage power chord from a standard outlet. T... | |
| Audio envy - dang! @lalitk I don't see any indication of the high-end cables you claim to have owned in there. |