oddiofyl
Responses from oddiofyl
| Revel - F208 vs M126Be I had a pair of M106.... a really great speaker , paired with a really good sub and although it was a great sounding compact system it was not the same as a full range floor stander like your 206 | |
| Audioquest vs. Others I have always been skeptical of cables.... have had a number of cables with "networks" and for a long time I thought they were ok. That was until I had a pair go bad. I replaced a pair of MIT Terminator 2 rca with Audioquest Mackenzie. The MIT ... | |
| Two Nice Small Tweaks to Klipsch Forte III Loudspeakers Sub Dudes are awesome. I use one under my sub..... huge improvement on a hard wood floor | |
| Great Qobuz streamer. Upgrade from Bluesound Node 2 I use a Vault 2i with a NAD M51 and it sounds great. I say add a great DAC too. | |
| Options for converting CD rips Does your player have a USB input? I plug a 2 TB drive of music I had into my Bluesound Vault 2i and it works great. Perhaps you can copy your files to a stand alone portable drive..... | |
| How much of your free time is dedicated to listening to your stereo? A lot.... sometimes through my speakers but lately I am listening to my Grado / Rupert Neve combo more especially at night . Combined probably 4 hours a day, weekends twice that. | |
| Adjusting tube bias... The VHT bias meter is a great tool to safely measure bias | |
| dB effeciency vs speaker configuration I tend to like low powered amps, tube or solid state class A.... with higher efficiency speakers. I've had some great sounding lower efficiency speakers, 83 to 86 dB/w but they all ran out of steam quickly and needed a lot of power to shine. ... | |
| Amazon just killed Tidal I just dropped Tidal for Qobuz.... the sound quality is excellent. Pretty good selection of music. Tracks are rendered in 44k, 24/96k, 88.2k, and even 24/192k.... sounds great through my DAC. I like the user interface better on qobuz.... I t... | |
| Qobuz Special Offer I took advantage of the Qobuz free trial last month... I liked Tidal but after listening to MQA through my Vault vs the 24/96k stream to my DAC I thought the DAC sounded better. MQA through the Vaults analog out was pretty good but as I understa... | |
| VTL preamps tonality (and vs. PrimaLuna)? VAC is first class all the way..... Luke Manley of VTL is another story | |
| TIDAL I liked Tidal, but I didn't like having music and artists on my dashboard that I have no interest in. Sound was good but I just signed up for Qobuz and for $14.99 I think it's a better value and it sounds great. | |
| Klipsch speaker choices I love my Heresy III.... sound great with just 40 watts of EL34 goodness. | |
| VTL preamps tonality (and vs. PrimaLuna)? i don't recall ever being on Hoffman forums but be my guest , buy a used VTL..... good luck | |
| What would be involved in updating Hersey II’s to Hersey IV’s? One thing i like about the Heresy is that they are sealed... they have really tight bass and no port noise. I'm curious to hear what a ported Heresy sounds like , it's heresy to port the Heresy in my opinion. |