213cobra
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| Thoughts on the First Watt SIT Amps I'm going to make it a point to hear the SIT-1 monoblocks with a DHT preamp in front of it. I have listened to DHT preamps and have heard the SIT-2, but have not heard the two sequenced together. I'll give Srajan benefit of doubt, and I do believe... | |
| ARC's new REF-75 >>What I'm trying to get to here is that there will always be trade offs. Never a system IME that will do all types of music as well...<<I don't agree. Any combination of hifi gear claiming fidelity can and should perform any kind of m... | |
| ARC's new REF-75 >>but what I found is those with deep pockets to buy new gear often seek out components with a sonic signature that leaps out at them.<<No doubt. But what does that kind of assertiveness of signature have to do with music? This has alw... | |
| ARC's new REF-75 >>So much from a Guru whose references are Klimo and Kent.<<Kent? I've never owned the Klimo Kent amp. The Klimo Merlino Gold spent 6 years in my system -- and it was and remains excellent -- but the change from Zu Definition 2 to Defi... | |
| ARC's new REF-75 >>I guess you don't like ARC....Or just fed up with the state of the industry in general?<<Some of both. There was a time when I loved ARC products. Today ARC makes some good preamps, and their DACs have been sonically interesting. It'... | |
| Thoughts on the First Watt SIT Amps Charles,He did not keep the SIT-2 beyond the agreed trial, due to the traits I noted. He returned to tube amplification. I recall his comment being, "I'm done with solid state."Phil | |
| Thoughts on the First Watt SIT Amps Let me add something about the SIT amps. I listened to the SIT-2 stereo amp. When asked, I advised the gentleman who ordered it to instead buy a pair of SIT-1 monoblocks. He was going to spend that much on a different amp anyway, so why not? I alw... | |
| MC452 and a bit brightness The MC452 definitely communicates more detail than its predecessors and doesn't have the dead top end of earlier McIntosh autoformer-output amps. My experience with modern McIntosh autoformer amps is that it will take a few hundred hours of use fo... | |
| ARC's new REF-75 I heard the REF 75 at the show. In a room full of other people who were uttering superlatives. I disagreed with them. While I will hear a REF 75 again in a more domestic or dealer setting, given that I heard nothing out of character with the rest ... | |
| Thoughts on the First Watt SIT Amps I heard the SIT in a friend's system I know well, on the same speakers as mine -- Zu Definition IV. I gave it every benefit of doubt and *wanted* to like it more than I do. It is very good solid state. However, the SIT amp cannot, will not, does n... | |
| ARC's new REF-75 I haven't been pleased by Audio Research amplification for a very long time, and that dissatisfaction only mushroomed over the past dozen years or so. Keep in mind I've sold and owned ARC in the distant past. I'm long out of the industry. I've cit... | |
| Turntable Platform - What do you place your TT on If your "coffee table" is substantially less robust than the platform you are placing on top of it for the turntable to rest on, this will not be sufficient no matter what platform you use. Further, your Verdier is quite heavy and could be exacerb... | |
| Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k? I could write a *very* long post on this, but for now I won't. As with last year, once again this year I found a general rule that above about $12k, speakers (and amps) became less musically convincing the more expensive they are. Aside from knowi... | |
| Thoughts on the First Watt SIT Amps I'll say at the outset that I do not think the Pass 30.5 mates well to Zu speakers, so having heard both, I think the SIT amp will be a clear improvement.The SIT amp is very smooth and articulate. It is among the two or three most natural solid st... | |
| 6sn7 and 12sn7 octal preamp for under $5k >>Do you prefer the Melody or the Valvet?<<I like both the Melody 101 and the Valvet L2, but for somewhat different reasons. Both have the big tone and harmonic completeness generally associated with octal preamps. The Valvet is explos... |