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| What to feed my Paradigm Studio speakers? I am another one of those defected EEs - I have realized that our measurment capabilites are rather poor but beyond that, I have realized that we probably aren't measuring the right things in the first place. At least when it comes to high perform... | |
| best all-round,full range at $2000 I second the JM Lab Electra 926s. Check my system page. | |
| Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3 My buddy's hard drive AND backup went down - and there went all his music. He is super bummed to say the least. | |
| Strange how many used valves measure NOS? Maybe I have been lucky but many tubes I buy as "used" actually test like new. I have only once gotten a dud - a 6AB4 I bought on ebay. I disregard the NOS label until I test them myself. | |
| Can someone guide me as to what Single driver ?? Check out Omega Loudspeakers. They mostly use Fostex drivers and sound very interesting. Seems like installing a super tweeter in parallel is going to hurt your speaker's high impedance. That may not be a good thing but you will probably just have... | |
| hifi audio in movies I am, admittedly, not a movie buff but have actually seen two of the ones mentioned - As Good As It Gets and Stepford Wives. I did noticed the Mcs in the latter one but had forgotten about it. I will check the others out. I am always looking for r... | |
| McIntosh Tubes / Triangle Speakers I used to have a pair of Triangle Comete ES and can say they are excellent with McIntosh. I have a MC240 tube amp that I never got to use with the Cometes but I am familiar enough with both to say it will be sublime. Actually, I think Naias would ... | |
| McIntosh C15 Vs. C712 I used to have a C712 and highly recommend it for the money. However, I do find the next generation pres (C15, 42, 200, etc) to be a little more transparent overall. I never did a head-to-head of a 712 and 15 though.Arthur | |
| Audio Aero Prestige vs. Esoteric X-01 Limited I have an AA Prima Mk2 and auditioned the Prestige at length. AA makes exactly the type of sound I like. It doesn't sound like digital and yet has excellent resolution and timing. That is what I would go with. | |
| Beginner/ Starter cables I highly recommend the MIT T2 series. They are discontinued now so you can get great deals and they beat all other inexpensive cables I have tried.Arthur | |
| Speaker Suggestions? I second JM Lab Utopia. Not necessarily the Grande (have to have a big room for them) but any of them will match extremely well with McIntosh. I have loved Mc and JM Lab together in my system for years. | |
| Unison Unico SE noise I have had brand new tubes be bad right out of their box. Arthur | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Not everyone is the same as you. | |
| How's your music library? I now have 4 LPs and about 1100 CDs. Oh, and 9 SACDs. | |
| Lead shot VR4jr's Do differently? Buy new points!!! The standard points that come with those speakers will crack, break and put a gash in your floor if you load them with shot. It happened to one of my local hi-fi buddies and he had to buy new revised points that c... |