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I've just returned home from a live concert and what a joy it is to listen to real musical instruments rather than paper cones being pushed around by coils in magnetic fields! No microhones, no amplifiers and no speakers - just wood, brass, strings and all the other materials used to build 100...

I have found it increasingly difficult to find useful and honest advice regarding new products and technology long before Covid, though I'm sure Covid has made matters worse. The swamping of printed magazines by the internet and mostly misleading information from self-appointed Youtube...

Odd isn't it that this friendly and polite forum gets relatively few posts (though most are very worthwhile), while others that are inhabited by flame-throwers get huge numbers of argumentative contributions. And oddly, these forums have a blinkered view of our hobby and woe betide anyone not...

Maybe they all sit around with headphone like the typical, polite Japanese do!

I’m sorry to hear this sad news. I never met Jim as I live in the UK, but he was US distributor for Avantgarde when I bought my first pair and he kindly offered advice in setting up. He also published a list of 100 CDs that we should all have - well performed and well recorded music. I bought a...

I presume Qobuz Connect is merely a control app that is used to find and play music from Qobuz. Presumably Spotify has its own control app and likewise Apple Music. Doesn't your streamer have a single control app that can access all these platforms - and Tidal, Amazon Music and lots more...

Ah - a fellow cheapskate! At least I look for best value for money. The title of this thread tells it all. Consider doing what I did a few years ago after using SETs for the previous 17 years. Borrow or buy (ideally used) a dozen solid state amps with the hope and expectation that you'll...

"Best of" accolades certainly altered me to the Avantgarde brand of speakers that I'd previously just ignored at audio shows because of their zany looks. In 2002, after selling my excellent KEF Reference 107 speakers when the opportunity to buy a pair of ATC 50 Actives was offered, they turned...

My Acoustic Research experience started decades ago with a single original AR1 I bought for next to nothing at a London household auction sale. It was OK but distinctly unimpressive - probably due to its age. Many years later I bought a pair of new AR Teledyne AR94. I suspect these were well...

It doesn't bother me one jot. This is a leg-pulling thread and you shouldn't take what I or others say so seriously. Lighten up. I am more than happy for anyone to spend however much they like on their kit and I'm more than happy buying from a brand that was mid-fi two or three decades ago...

As I said "Just my take". Isn't hi-fi only ever bought for one purpose - to reproduce music as accurately as possible? Obviously not, because many of us are happy to spend more on an attractive box than its innards. It's a human a vanity trait to spend money on "jewellery" items. No problem...

But what do these meters tell us? Nothing of significance to the music quality as far as I can see. They add cost, distract the listener and achieve nothing. In days of old when we all had tape recorders, meters were essential as we needed to adjust the recording level to avoid distortion...

I suspect you'll get "yes" answers, but I have to ask if you'll benefit from installing special feert under electronics. Turntables and speakers certainly, but I'm dubious that electronics will benefit at all. I'll be interested to see what others say, but I am using Gaia 1s under my speakers...

But the result is unlikely to match the best brands' Purifi amps. Where would you get the basic Purifi board from? Purifi offer cheap Eval(uation) boards that can be bought online, but the big brands that use Purifi technology build under license with improved components and performance. NAD...

Absolutely not the case - with Avantgarde speakers at least. Probably half of all AG owners use tube amps, mostly SETs, yet these offer great integration with the bass section that has been Class D powered for very many years. Before D was ntroduced , A/B was used in the earliest AG speakers...