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| How important is customer service in your decision to pick an audio product (company)? Wow knghifi. That is great CS from ARC. Nice to know. Also tarp38, I had heard Bryston gives great service as well. | |
| Speaker help under $2,500 Vandersteen 2CE Sig II or Magnepan 1.7 | |
| I s Benchmark the "Benchmark" I have a DAC1 USB. I use the digital optical. I like it alot. But I purchased a Schiit Bifrost Uber which was 1/2 the price some 10 year later and I like it as much. | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced I have a Parasound A21 and a Line Magnetic 216 Integrated Tube amp in another system. So I agree with those who have listed these two. Just great products. | |
| Chinese integrated for around $1k Get a used Line Magnetic Audio. I have a 216IA and it is the best audio piece I have, out of three audio systems. | |
| B&K and Vandersteen Good match?? The great thing about that speaker is that it sounds very good with all kinds of amps. I have driven it with 28 tube watts and 300 SS watts. Still sounds great as long as the source and electronics are quality. | |
| Ayre & Vandersteen I agree with Oros. I have a Line Magnetic Audio 216IA and it makes the 2CE Sig IIs sing. I also have a Parasound A21 that drives about 300 watts to those speakers as well when I swap them. I cannot tell the difference, both sound great. I would gi... | |
| help me decide speakers for two channel audio I'll second the Vandersteen 5. But I would not buy a speaker of this quality with a listen first. | |
| IPod to home stereo - How to get best sound? Grege has the right idea. Pure I-20 dock, to DAC, (I use a Schiit Bifrost or Bencmark USB DAC1) to preamp or amp. | |
| $1k preamp for McCormack DNA-125 recommendations? I am using a benchmark DAC1USB as my preamp. I thought about getting a preamp, but why use the extra component when the sound is much better going from source to DAC to amp?BTW I HAD used a very nice tube preamp (odyssey candela)vs. the dac to amp... | |
| NAD C372 Integrated or Bel Canto s300i Integrated Thanks to all for your input. I like the idea of the Bel Canto amp, Benchmark as a pre. I have been VERY happy with the Benchmark= the very best sound I have to date is-1 fav cd of the day2 Apollo transport3 Benchmark ext DAC and headphone amp4 Gr... | |
| Anyone heard these? How do they sound? Well fellas... these are quite er ..interesting and enlighting comments. I am so glad I asked this question in the first place. I did a small amount of research and it seems that to buy this speaker and the associated LINN gearto appreciate them a... | |
| Amplification for Denon 3802 for 2-ch listening I have a Denon Avr-4800 and i use a Parasound HCA-855(5 channels at 85 watts) it sounds great. Amp costs $450.If you bump up to the HCA-2205, you will have superb amppower and finess IMHO, John Curl design 220 watts per | |
| DVD player used as a CD player good/bad I had an Onkyo dvd player and up-graded to the Arcam cd72t(cd player) It made a HUGE difference and I love this player.I had to re-listen to all my old cd's and re-discover sounds I neverknew were there. A quality CD player will sound better than ... | |
| Recommendations A/V RCVR Well you have posted this awhile ago, so you may have alreadymade your choice, but here is my "two cents".I have a DENON AVR-4800 and before that I had a YAMAHARX-V890. Both great sounding AV receivers. Problem wasmy SNELL E-5's were never happy w... |