yoyoyaya
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| where/who builds the Borresen / Aviik Denmark gear? @OP, there are two factory tour articles on Hifiknights.com Borresen and Aavik/Ansuz do a lot of their "manufacturing" operations in house. I put manufacturing in quotes because there are very few entirely vertically integrated companies in the ... | |
| Reel to Reel I always come back to opportunity cost for expensive formats like R2R. There's zero point of getting into it unless you get a quality machine which is fully serviced and aligned. Then there is the cost of the software. Even a small collection of t... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? "And I'm surfing on a wave of nostalgia for an age yet to come" - Buzzcocks 1978 | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds @OP. The D'Agostino amplifiers have very clean bass - but it is not lean. But it is very far away from the way a lot of tube gear sounds in the bass. The MxV amplifiers are more refined than the Progressions - that's more noticeable from the midra... | |
| Phono Stage in inputs for 2 tonearms Passlabs XP-27 | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. I don't listen to audio of any kind in the car. You'd be amazed how distracting it is when you become used to focusing exclusively on the road. | |
| Solid state amp vs tube amps There's a noticeable difference in sound quality among amplifiers full stop - regardless of what active devices they use. | |
| 4ohms or 8ohms for refurbished WATT/Puppy 5.1's? @simonphoenix sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I think you could certainly get an improvement from an amplifier upgrade. As one suggestion, Passlabs amplifiers work well with Wilsons as they have lots of current and are fairly forgiving... | |
| 4ohms or 8ohms for refurbished WATT/Puppy 5.1's? @OP. I'm not sure about the 5.1, but the original series 5 had a couple of severe impedance dips in the bass, including one at 100Hz where there is a lot of energy. But it also had a rising impedance from 5K onward, so it's idiosyncratic. So the b... | |
| Looking for a simple but exquisite front end @OP - Passive preamps - in effect a volume pot in a box - are as rare as hen's teeth. Even buffered passives, which are part active are rare, so you have a wide range of active preamps to choose from. The best approach is to find a good dealer ... | |
| Anyone listen to entire albums? I listen to the majority of my music on CD and LP and almost always listen through on the CD and to one or two sides depending on the LP. I tend to use streaming to find albums I like and then go buy them in physical format. | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? @OP. There are two possibilities here. The first is that you have room problems. If you have, depending on the key of the song and the bassline, some tracks may sound right and others wrong. The second is just the fact that depending on the choic... | |
| Accuphase or Leben for heavy metal @OP Passlabs X250.8 with an appropriate pre-will work very well on metal. As reflected in many of the comments, you need the ability to play loud with lots of control. A pair of Parasound JC1s would also be ideal - preferably pre owned. Since th... | |
| How you know your system is improving? @OP. I use a small number of recordings that reflect different aspects of sound quality. I've used these recordings across many different systems to give a broader set of benchmarks rather than just internally benchmarking my own system. +1 to GH... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong The problem with the Benchmark argument is the logical fallacy of faulty generalisation. Personally, I partly agree with the Benchmark post to wit, there are snake oil companies in the Hi-Fi business. I also agree that many audio cables are overpr... |