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| Decware Sarah 300B Amp? @danager You left something off: "All Decware amplifiers come with a 30 day in-home trial with a 10% restocking fee." So 10% non-refundable deposit or a 10% restocking fee. Buyer beware. | |
| Decware Sarah 300B Amp? Keep in mind that the Decware deposits are non-refundable. They don't highlight that on their site or when you place an order but if you try to cancel they won't give you your money back. I'll never buy anything from them. | |
| Record Store Day 2024? I think the pricing and artificially created scarcity of RSD are obscene. | |
| Comparing Aurender N20 vs eversolo dmp A8 The A8 is a fantastic piece of gear for the money. I don't use it just as a streamer though I will if they ever get it Roon Ready. But the DAC in the A8 has performed extremely well compared to other high end DACs I have compared it to. I have ... | |
| Digital Speaker Balance Control with ROON You don't have to set a distance if you don't want to. You can simply specify a + or - dB adjustment for each channel in that Speaker Setup filter. It works extremely well. I use it to adjust for a slight deficit in my left ear so add a dB to t... | |
| Audio Research Pre-Amp advice @tomic601 I also have an ARC Ref 5SE and love it. But if you haven't replaced the tubes for 6000 hours you should really do that. The 6H30 and 6550 tubes are cheap and the manual recommends replacing them every 4000 hours. It is likely that the... | |
| Advice needed on upgrading tonearm for VPI SCOUTMASTER VPI has made so many similar sounding turntables and tonearms it is difficult to give you advice as to what would be an upgrade over what you have. I had the VPI Aries Scout with a 9" JMW arm and currently own the VPI Super Scoutmaster with the 1... | |
| HFT High Frequency Transducer @hififuchs millercarbon was banned from Audiogon years ago. Not sure if he has ever come back under a different ID. | |
| Placement tips for Synergistic Research HTFs @o_holter I recently installed a set of HFT's on my Magnepan 20.7s and I also have a set of 12 UEF panels that I borrowed from a friend. Since it is essentially impossible to do an effective before and after test I am completely open to the argum... | |
| What is the quality and performance level of Fluance turntables?? I owned the Fluance RT85, there was nothing to complain about it except I never thought it sounded good. That just confirmed my bias against vinyl. But I kept listening to friend's systems with good vinyl setups and hearing them as being a lot b... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? Used Magnepan 20.7i's can be had for less than $10K and if you have the proper room and amplification I suspect they will outperform the vast majority of speakers at many multiples of that price. | |
| power cord for pass 250.8 @dhite71 I did a tour of the Shunyata facility about a month ago with my local audio club. They were excited about the Gamma and Theta lines but we didn't audition them. We were very impressed with their listening room and the demo of the Altair... | |
| power cord for pass 250.8 @dhite71 I have a NRG Custom Cables 4 outlet distribution box and attached cable. It is very well made and wasn't particularly expensive but I have no idea if it improved the sound quality since I didn't do any careful A/B testing. He isn't taki... | |
| Kind of Blue @simonmoon Thanks for that list. I found some new to me discoveries. | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 What an interesting question. You can definitely use the digital outs of the A8 to your DAC effectively limiting the use of the A8 to being a streamer. However, you need to specify ONE input and ONE output. So once you specify your digital sour... |