Will there be a dramatic difference?


I currently am running my Thiel CS 7 speakers on a 25 year old Carver amp I have an amazing Audible Illusions modulus phono preamp. It all sounds pretty incredible. I am considering Parasound a 21 and I’m wondering if that upgrade will make a dramatic difference in the way my system sounds overall? Would it definitely be worth the investment?

rossgordon

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I really appreciate the responses. And I am definitely going to make the jump. I do have one more question as far as difference in quality is concerned. Parasound also makes as. audiotroy posted the halo JC5. Anybody have an opinion on whether or not that would would be worth an extra $2000 on top of an already big improvement? $2000 seems like a lot considering the great reviews the A21+ already has.

At the moment, I just can’t spend an extra two grand. I went ahead and ordered the A21+. In the future when I have some extra money, I will probably sell that one and upgrade. However, until then I’m sure the improvement from what I am currently running to the A21+ should be amazing and satisfy my listening needs for a little while anyway.

My A21 arrives today…. Pretty excited. But now all you guys have me thinking about fuses, power conditioners and power plugs… ugggh I’m gonna go bankrupt with this hobby!!!!  I hear the A 21+ takes about 40 hours of play to really break in and start sounding good. I’ll keep everyone posted.

Well, she’s all hooked up and been running music through it for the last couple of hours. Obviously needs to break in. I’m sure it sounds great but I’m starting to think all this audio file stuff as a joke. It’s like saying one kind of marijuana is so much better than the other kind for pain. I don’t smoke anything anymore maybe I should but I could never tell the difference from one strain to the next they both just got me high. this amplifier doesn’t sound noticeably better than my Carber. And I don’t think the JC5 would sound noticeably better than the A21 not enough to justify the price difference. My whole set up has always sounded damn good and it still does. I’m not unhappy with this purchase however, I think all of this technical ultimate sound stuff is a bunch of opinions. That’s all nothing else. It is fun to try to get to that ultimate sound, however, I don’t think it should require the thousands of dollars people try to spend to make stuff so much better and so much better.

Pindac 

 

well said, and I agree 100%. That matter I have a whole Nother issue I’m dealing with mom it’s almost too long to explain, but I’m going to go ahead and do it for those of you who will suffer through reading it.

 

so I hooked up my Parasound I am running a Audible Illusions modulus M3B phono, preamp, and TLCS7 speakers. After hooking everything up, I was listening to it for three or four hours yesterday and it was sounding very nice. I heard a little rattle in my right speaker so I did a little trick that Rob from the Thiel speakers place up in Lexington Kentucky told me to do it. Which I also did with another speaker months ago and it’s worked like a charm. Gravity works on the subwoofers so I turned the subwoofer around and it fixed the rattle, on the one I heard rattling yesterday I did the same thing. When I turned everything back on, I now have no more base response in either subwoofer and either speaker. This makes no sense as I only turned over the subwoofer on my right channel speaker. I unhooked the new amplifier and re-hooked up my old Carver  with the same problem. There is zero base response from either speaker. I hooked back up the Parasound still the same issue. It doesn’t make sense. I’m wondering if anybody has any idea what’s going on here? 
 

I can add more detail if you guys have any questions for me