vthokie83
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| Started with $1k speakers … what now? OP, If I were in your shoes, I would suggest used or companies that have a "direct to consumer" business model. If you can find the Joseph Audio Pulsars (Soix posted a link), that would be my first choice. As many have posted, Fritz would be a g... | |
| Anyone else order Caladans from Clayton Shaw? I finally got an email last week confirming they indeed have my order, I placed my order on 11/1/23....and production is based on that date. No shipping date was implied, just my order placement. I am glad to at least get a response, and looking f... | |
| Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find? mclinnguy, For me the exercise is to end up with some really nice cables, but also the assembly process, and ultimately to learn from the experience. The cable I'm starting out with is all highly reputable: Furutech, Neotech, Acoustic Revive, SAE... | |
| Speaker Cables : Moderate priced Zavfino, DHLabs, Anti-Cables 3.1 OR 4.2 Flex.....or build your own with high quality bulk cable and a few screw on connectors, add heat shrink and voila | |
| Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find? sudnh, I have spent a ton of time over the last 3 months studying cable purity, construction, and geometry. A lot of companies (some Japanese, some US, a few Chinese), are striving to make the very best possible cable and connectors. I personally... | |
| Upgraded my cables and they transformed my system!!! akgwhiz, I sent you a DM | |
| Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find? To me, AliExpress has made it difficult to determine which companies are making good products, and which are simply knock off (good quality or not). Some Chinese companies seem to be honest about their cables and connectors, and make excellent pr... | |
| Mid-Fi, Hi-Fi or.....? OP, It's the never ending journey isn't it, the question is where does someone decide to get off of the merry go round and be happy? I'm not near there yet. I love my current set up as it is very enjoyable and musical, but I know that there is s... | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision First off, thank you all for your input! It is nice to get your experiences, and for keeping it on topic. So many suggested the ARC 5SE, and I've added it to my list....but only if I can find a later model with the new board, and if I can verify i... | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision hsounds, I did find an ARC 5SE, and the owner says it has the "brown" board.....not sure if that is a newer or older version, do you happen to know? | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision From the Backert website: "Fully Balanced XLR Input and Output Shown below is the rear panel of the Rhumba 1.2 Extreme. The Rhumba 1.4 is very similar, except that it has two fully balanced XLR inputs and two fully balanced XLR outputs." Hfihan... | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Soix & Woots, I thought about older ARCs.....but that brings it's own issue with older preamps. If I did buy used, it would probably be a newer product like Backert Rhumba Extreme. I like the idea of buying new, or newish. I believe all of th... | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Also I do not tend to listen to jazz, classical or metal. More blues, rock, some grunge, southern rock, singer song writer, 80s/90s think Depeche Mode or the Cure. I find I listen to more live recordings and acoustic versions (Nirvana MTV Live) | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Soix, I want more transparent to neutral....with a touch of tube warmth, quiet with a low noise floor, detailed clear instruments, quick dynamic fast presentation....no bloat, wide layered sound stage, a preamp that provides that "it" something t... | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K Might also audition Yamaha NS5000s. Have heard them once for a bunch of hours driven by Gato equipment (preamp and monoblocks), mostly playing rock and they sounded glorious.....I've just never heard them in my system |