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| Thinking about buying new Grado Headphones If you are open to the 2nd hand market I would look at the original Meze Empyrean. Beautiful headphones and most people seem to agree they are way more comfortable than Grado. Original price was $3000 but they can be had for well under $2000 these... | |
| I Was A Skeptic Now I'm Not So Sure I wish it wasn't so, I would have saved a lot of money over the years. | |
| Bryston Bdp3 Upgade Agree with the Simaudio Moon recommendation. When I was exploring options recently I really liked their gear. If I didn’t want separate streamer and DAC, I would have probably gone with their Moon 681 streaming DAC. I bet the 280D is also really g... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found The other day I asked about speaker cables and if there might be something higher up than the Aperta. They told me there is a new special edition version Aperta coming soon. I don't know if that already was discussed here yet. I plan on waiting fo... | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole That really depends on the transport (some only have USB, some have a bunch of options), the DAC (some have much better USB implementation than others), the coaxial cable, and the USB cable involved. Sometimes coaxial is the better choice and some... | |
| Yamamura cables? Yamamura? That's a blast from the past! I used to love the set of 5000 interconnects I had from them many years ago. Not the last word in resolution but very smooth and great tonality. Sorry, don't know anything about the SE version though, I woul... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found Just went for it and grabbed two sets of Argentum R interconnects for my main system. Now I am using Veritas Praesto power cables on all components, Connexa for network to my ZENith server, and soon to have the Argentum R going from DAC to pre and... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @captouch Not sure what your budget might be for smaller monitors, but there are many good options to choose from. If I were you I might try for a local hifi shop (if one exists nearby) that would allow an in home trial. That will probably be very... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love | |
| Modding a Oppo 103 I used to have an Oppo 93 with Exemplar mods, it sounded very nice for the money. I believe it had the usual stuff like power supply upgrade, nicer opamps, all the regular mods that different companies did with Oppo players over the years. However... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room Interesting little room you have there. Maybe challenging but a fun project trying to optimize everything. As people have already said, you can keep tweaking speaker placement with your existing gear. But in the end probably would be best to go wi... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @nwres I see, that is a smart setup you have there. I’ve always wondered how much if any improvement my system might have with some of those audiophile oriented network components. Right now I just go straight from the wall to my Innuos Zenith mk... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Damien Rice - 9 | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @lak Thank you, nice to have someone tell me I am not impulsive with audio gear because it sure feels that way sometimes. Even this morning I came far too close to buying a vintage Nakamichi amplifier that I've always been curious about. I have ab... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas (really complex jazz, challenging but fun) |