Recent content by Mechnutt

Hi, I bought a new JCat usb femto card for my custom built music server that I built a few years ago. I was using an older JCat usb card V1.1. That card made a very noticeable improvement in sound. I decided to buy the newer femto card and hooked it up tonight. I am powering it via an...

I really wanted to buy a 585.5 Integrated amp but used prices are still high so a new 5805 it was.

I love my 5805 Integrated. It checks all the boxes for me. Slightly warmer tone. Deep bass, smooth but detailed top end. The midrange has good tone and texture and it is very dynamic and musical. The DAC in it is exceptional and better than my Luxman. It is supposed to have a very good...

I have a 25 pound knife and fork that I eat with for exercise. I need a 25 pound wine glass too.😃

Vinyl, Digital downloads and copies of CD's then Streaming. When I am feeling lazy it is digital and streaming. Some one needs to invent a personal robot to flip records. Or bring back record stackers lol.

Then I guess you have never heard Magnepans at low volume. Or you do not consider them good speakers. They need some juice and volume to sound their best. I have lived with them for 30 years.

I have a pair of Fritz Carbon speakers that Fritz sent me for review. They sound pretty good at low levels but electronics also play the part. Van Alstine gear typically sounds good at low volumes. So did the Pass X1 preamp that I had. I sold it to buy a BAT VK51se tube preamp to pair with...

The Hana EL has a dynamic compliance of 20x10-6 at 10hz cm/dyne. So you need a low to medium mass tone arm. I would buy the lighter head shell, but it may not drop enough weight for a high compliance cartridge. Go with the Denon. It is supposed to be an excellent cartridge and has been in...

I did not like the T3's. They were not a good match for the laid back Pass amp. They needed a much more lively amp. The frequency response I believe was ruler flat, and that is not my idea of a fun speaker. On acoustic music they sounded wonderful. On RR and Jazz they were awful. They have...

I do not know but he is using their BHK preamp that he recently bought. Prior to that he was using a Parasound JC2 preamp with them. He has become a PSA fan boy and even has their DSD dac. Speakers are the PSB T3's that I sold him.

I have yet to hear a Class D amp that I love with the exception being a Marantz PM-KI Ruby Integrated that had this beautiful, tonally rich and warm midrange but lacked some detail. You could listen to this amp all day. Even a couple of my local audiophile friends came over for a listen and...

These are measurements, how does it sound.?

I got a 9.8 from google, lol for my Levinson Integrated 5805, Luxman DA-06 DAC, Arendal 1528 Bookshelf 8 speakers, Pro-Ject Classic Evo TT, Shelter 501MKIII MC cartridge, Gold Note PH-10 phono preamp and Duelund RCA's, XLR's and Speaker cables, WW Platinum Starlight 7 usb cabe.

When I go shopping for jeans, I try on a few pair of the same size because the sizing is all over the place. A pair of jeans of the same size can fit too tight and another pair can be too loose or the leg sizes are way different. Eddie Bauer Jeans are a little bit better with this than Levi's...

I still have a working Technics SU-7600 Integrated amp that I bought in 1977.