My Martin Logans are on consignment because my room does not allow for anything close to proper speaker placement, and the ML are VERY room sensitive. This means they sounded like junk in my basement. I also missed the sound of moving cones and being able to feel the music rather than just hear...

I am looking for ideas that I can use to help pick out a birthday present for my dad. His trusty old Technics turn table died and he tossed it to Best Buy to recycle before asking me to look into fixing, so now he has a decent vinyl collection with no way to play them. My step-mother want to...

Goal: The sound signature of B&W 804/802s driven by McIntosh components. To me this combo has perfect synergy and provides a very smooth, very detailed, very musical tube like sound. I can listen to this setup for hours without any type of ear fatigue, and that is what I am looking for in a...

It is high time for me to thin the heard, so I finally got around to starting a couple rounds of listening tests. Unfortunately I have no decent speakers at the moment and my "headphone amp" is probably the weakest link in my chain. Round 1 is between the Lexicon and the XCD-99 because I am...

http://www.equalify.me/ I use Spotify (premium @ 320) ALOT for listening to music at work and stumbled on the above site today. The installation took less than a minute and it has made me even happier with Spotify than I was before.

The options: Tear apart my Carver C-1 to refurbish (clean all pots, recap, etc) replace with a Lexicon MC-1 in 2-Channel mode that is lying around the warehouse after a customer upgraded to a new Lexicon Processor? Which will sound better? Sources are Tuner, Squeezebox, Onix XCD-99 (Music...

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Home/Audio-Components/Hi-Fi+Audio/N-50 Has anyone looked into this? It seems like a pretty cool DAC with support for streaming services. According to the Pioneer rep it supposedly has the same DAC circuit as their uber-expensive TAD products and has an...

This is for my work desktop. I will be driving a pair of Grado SR225i, so the amp section will not be working very hard. Currently the computer is using the integrated Realtec HD Audio and the motherboard does not have a digital output. Needless to say the sound is horrible with my UE Triple.Fi...