What New Stuff Have You Bought? If You Care To Share Thead! :)

[Forsooth]

Parasound P5 preamplifier and Parasound A23 amplifier (125 WPC) for 2-channel audio. Black.

 

[3db]

I pre purchased this from Amazon

 

[slipperybidness]

Parasound P5 preamplifier and Parasound A23 amplifier (125 WPC) for 2-channel audio. Black.

I'm real nervous on the P5 at this point.

https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/parasound-volume-pot-part-two.93353/post-1137314

 

[Forsooth]

I'm real nervous on the P5 at this point.

https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/parasound-volume-pot-part-two.93353/post-1137314

Thanks for the info on that thread. I had not seen that, although I did a lot of research. I was more concerned about the A23, as there had been the occasional mention of a hum or hiss. Almost always, as the threads progressed, the sound turned out to be related to the circuitry external to the amp and not the amp itself.

I'm glad to report that the A23 I received is absolutely silent, not even the hint of whisper with my ear pressed against the tweeter and with the preamp volume turned up very high.

As far as the P5 preamp goes, I see that the thread you referenced ended 18 months ago, so I hope that if a systemic problem was identified, it has been rectified by Parasound. So far, the P5 I have has been exemplary.

 

[slipperybidness]

Thanks for the info on that thread. I had not seen that, although I did a lot of research. I was more concerned about the A23, as there had been the occasional mention of a hum or hiss. Almost always, as the threads progressed, the sound turned out to be related to the circuitry external to the amp and not the amp itself.

I'm glad to report that the A23 I received is absolutely silent, not even the hint of whisper with my ear pressed against the tweeter and with the preamp volume turned up very high.

As far as the P5 preamp goes, I see that the thread you referenced ended 18 months ago, so I hope that if a systemic problem was identified, it has been rectified by Parasound. So far, the P5 I have has been exemplary.

Unfortunately, that was not his only problem on the P5, and not the only member to have problems with the P5.

At this point, you have it, so enjoy it. If it gives any problems or does not, then that is another data point

 

[Forsooth]

At this point, you have it, so enjoy it. If it gives any problems or does not, then that is another data point

Thanks, I am enjoying it. And, yes, I agree, it will probably give problems or it will not.

 

[afterlife2]

Originally bought this for the firestick, but since then I found a fix(look for firestick connection thread) for buffering/pausing. Ah only 2 bucks and change on the bay + basically same specs(except no USB) as the amazon version which costs $14 outrageous.
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-to-RJ45-LAN-Ethernet-Network-Adapter-For-Apple-Mac-MacBook-Air-Laptop/302759146825?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

 

[xreaperx22]

all i have got so far are these more to come tho!

 

[afterlife2]

^^Let us know how you like it.
Make sure you get these for your Onkyo: https://www.amazon.com/AC-Infinity-MULTIFAN-Receiver-Playstation/dp/B00JLV4BWC/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1529673854&sr=8-16&keywords=fan+for+receiver
Enjoy.

My first CD's by her. Wild Is The Wind is a beauty of a song.

 

[xreaperx22]

^^I love the setup but now im on a "get a system in each room" kick lmao! and thanks for that link ill be getting those asap.

 

[afterlife2]

^^I love the setup but now im on a "get a system in each room" kick lmao! and thanks for that link ill be getting those asap.

Yep I know how that goes. I at one time had (4) setups in (1) room. The good thing is bargains can be found. Fun times.

 

[sholling]

I added the HD streaming version of a fine old family flick to my library.

 

[KEW]

Wild Is The Wind is a beauty of a song.

Be sure to check out David Bowie's version if you don't already know it.
If I just heard them both without paying attention to the lyrics, I'm not sure I would recognize them as the same song!

 

[MrBoat]

Friend of mine ordered this for his dad and ended up buying one that holds 5 instead and sold it to me NIB for $60, or, basically what cash I had in my pocket at the time. I think he off'd it to me so his wife wouldn't find out about it.

Don't really know where I will fit it being I had not planned yet one more mismatched component in my system.

 

[xreaperx22]

I added the HD streaming version of a fine old family flick to my library.

I Loved that movie!! glad you brought it up now i must have it also! lol

 

[fuzz092888]

 

[Cos]

Is that the Sparc or AIR, so hard to tell the difference. I love my Mavic AIR

 

[killdozzer]

Friend of mine ordered this for his dad and ended up buying one that holds 5 instead and sold it to me NIB for $60, or, basically what cash I had in my pocket at the time. I think he off'd it to me so his wife wouldn't find out about it.

Don't really know where I will fit it being I had not planned yet one more mismatched component in my system.

You should carry less money around. You might get even better deals.

 

[MrBoat]

You should carry less money around. You might get even better deals.

I didn't really want/need it and that was my Guinness money.

 

[Bucknekked]

I have my primary music library on an external RAID array attached to my iMac. Its run without incident since 2010. That's an eternity in computer years. This last week I had a disk drive fail in the RAID array. I could tell because it was making a racket. I slid out the offending drive and my music was unaffected: it was all preserved on the surviving drive.

My purchase this week was a brand new hard disk for the array. I popped it in, the RAID array rebuilt its duplicate image and I was back in 100% protected business. I also have another complete copy on another music server that also has an external array. And then there's all the CD's sitting in a safe. Backups are boring, but backups make the inevitable crash and burn that computers will do survivable and mostly non-events.