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| Best Vintage Amp over 100 WPC I believe the threshold CAS 2 was conservatively rated at 100 WPC and should get mentioned as a used low cost bargain; that is if you can find one. | |
| Best preamp/ Amp combo or intgrated amp?? You might consider a receiver instead of an integrated amp. You can purchase a used luxman R-117 receiver for approx. $280 on Ebay (from a high ranked seller) when they become available. They have 160 watts/channel and have a cd bypass switch and ... | |
| advice on speakers to replace ML Monolith 3 I would suggest Innersound electrostatics or sound labs (used) in that price range. Innersound may have some new eros mark 3.5 speakers left over otherwise I believe the new flagship is near $20,000. You might also consider a magnepan 3.6 (+/-) mo... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Dayton Wright XG 8 electrostatics (with panasonic leaf tweeter) and upgraded power supply. Incredible midrange, airy tweeter and tight bass.Threshold pre amp and amp (SL 10 and 4000)Linn Sondek turntable with dynavector 505 arm and ruby cartridgeS... | |
| Early 80's - late 70's best audio products Speakers: Dayton Wright XG 8 (with panasonic leaf tweeter) magnepan tympani 1 D Beveridge model 2 SW Hill plasmatronic (best $10,000 tweeter)Amps and pre amps: Threshold,AR, KrellReceivers: Nakamichi SR-3, Luxman R-117, Tandberg 2075tape decks: Ta... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Daily driver is a lexus sc400 (still the best car lexus has produced) and for sunny days a tiptronic boxster S (Hurly Heywood uses a tiptronic in his personal porsche and he races porsches so who am I to argue about a manual for street use?). Drea... | |
| Maggie 1.6 - Best Amp? Thinking about tubes. Save yourself a fortune and get a luxmam r-117 receiver and use the cd bypass. Plenty of clean, smooth, tube like power and stable to 2 ohms!. If you don't listen to very loud rock/pop or orchestral music try a nakamichi sr-3 stasis receiver. Thes... | |
| Down-graded and happy? I've gone from Dayton Wright xg 8 electrostatics (with upgraded panasonic leaf tweeters), Threshold sl-10 pre amp and 4000 amp, linn sondek sp12 turntable with dynavector 505 arm and ruby cartridge to the following:1)magnepan 1.6 QR2)luxman r-117 ... | |
| Giantkiller components I have put together a low priced, high end, system that rivals many systems I've heard costing 5-10 times the price. It takes patience and careful choices especially with matching receiver amps and interconnects to get proper sound from this $1,50... | |
| Best speakers, used, for around $1,000. There are many used magnepan 1.6QR speakers from $750-$1,100 on audiogon. If you can place them 3-4 feet from the rear wall and 8-12 feet apart they will give you the best bang for the buck unless you listen to heavy rock music. They like a lot of... | |
| Top Ten Speakers of All Time? Over the years only a few speakers have really sounded like music. From the 1970's till now I would mention; Magnepan Tympani D,Beveridge electrostatics , Soundlab R1, stacked Quads, dayton wright XG8-10 with the leaf tweeter,Hill Plasmatronics (b... |