2psyop
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| 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... | |
| Whatever Happened to Snell? I bought a pair of Snell e-5's in march 2000. I haveowned JBL 150's in 1980's and Bose 901 series 5. Alsoown Paradigm Monitor 9's. My buddy has Klipsch C30?In my opinion the Snell's are the best. They must havetime to be broken in and run by power... |