mazian
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| Is My McIntosh C52 Pre-amp The Weak Link? Another vote for getting an external DAC. If you like the Mac keep it. I personally am not a fan of McIntosh preamps but that is just me as I know many people love them. | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice @lalitk I tried apps associated with streamers from Elac, Cambridge Audio, Auralic, iFi Zen and Aurender but none of them was as good as the native Qobuz app. I was unable to find any way of using the Qobuz app with any of those streamers except ... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice Aurenders sound great but the app is not good if you want to stream classical music. Also you can't at present use Roon with an Aurender if you think you might want to go the Roon way. | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? I tried unsuccessfully to sell my Rogue ST90 in Australia and eventually decided to keep it and use it to biamp. The best decision I ever made. | |
| Integrated Curiosity The very heavy older Krells were far from warm. Pair them with speakers from B&W or Focal and they could be ear splittingly analytic. | |
| Revel Salon2s: Seeking Advice If you find the Focals a bit too bright a tube pre should take the edge off them. I have not heard the Revels but I went for the very musical Sonus Faber speakers but if you are a fan of earth moving bass the SFs would not be for you. As has been ... | |
| Obvious Epiphany I've found that the right side bias is often the recording itself and not a hearing imbalance. Many times when playing a new recording I've leapt from my chair and grabbed the Stereophile test CD thinking I have a problem with my left side speaker... | |
| Why do I prefer R2R over Chip based DAC's? The Orchid looks to be a good option. | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K Definitely SS power amp of any type + horns or Tekton | |
| DAC upgrade I wouldn't swap my Pure Audio Lotus DAC 5 for any of the suggested DACs, most of which I have tried. | |
| Speaker and amp advice needed @rick_n +1, especially re the Focal speakers. If you love the Sonus Faber sound be prepared to hate the Focals. | |
| Aurender or Lumin streamer only? If you stream mainly classical music forget the Aurender app as it doesn't know what a composer is. | |
| Best Options For A Tubed Preamp - $2500 Or Less, Preferably Used To Maximize Value I recently discovered an icon Audio LA4 Mk 111 which I bought used for just over $1000. I swapped out the EH tubes with Shuguang Black Treasures and the sound was amazing. I am now using it to replace a very well reviewed pre which cost 6X as much... | |
| "The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism" mahgister must really enjoy typing! | |
| Tube preamp with Adcom amp I have just bought a 1 year old UK designed icon Audio LA4 Mk 111 pre for just over US$1000, mainly out of curiosity given AbSounds very positive review. I changed the EH 6SN7 tubes with Shuguang Black Treasures and am amazed at the performance. I... |