agaffer
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| What Mods for a pre/pro to become a good preamp? "Agaffer, perhaps you are correct as a general rule of thumb. But then there are always excepts to those rules. I own a Primare P30 pre/pro"I don't get your point. According to the Primare Audio website, the P30 is a pre amp, not a AV processor. I... | |
| What Mods for a pre/pro to become a good preamp? You need a pre amp, the Lexicon is a pretty good AV processor but, even the best AV computers seldom sound as good as even some of the very least expensive preamps.Find a pre amp that you like that has a AV bypass and use your Lexicon for movies a... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers I don't know about the speakers mentioned being a new trend but, I personally don't find it as amusing as 2 way speakers at $30,000 plus, or the idea that a single driver speaker can be at all accurate. Well, maybe fairly accurate as long as only ... | |
| ARC LS-5MKIII or ARC LS-25MKII I also owned many ARC pre amps. Hands down the LS-5MKlll, I almost sold it to get the Reference One until I did a in home comparison. The LS-5 is one of the best pre amps ARC has ever made. | |
| Do tube CD players and tube pre-amps play nice? I am using a Granite Audio CDP with a tube output along with a Hovland preamp and find they make a great pair. What is nice about the Granite Audio CDP is that you can bypass the tube output and use it as a ss cdp if you want. It also can be used ... | |
| Krell v. Theta If your main concern is music, don't get either one. Get a good two channel pre amp with bypass capibilities and a inexpensive AV processor. Even the cheapist AV processor has the same chips for decoding DTS and DD as the big boys and do just as g... | |
| vandersteen 2ce sig/ 3a sig power requirements I currently am on my second pair of Vandersteen 3A sigs (nothing wrong with the first pair, just tried something different for awhile). I don't think you will be satisfied with just 60 watts of power. In fact, they are really best when vertically ... | |
| How many of you guys use a HT processor ? I have a Theta Casablanca with extreme DACS and still use a pre pro for music, both digital and analog. A ht processor is a computer, not a pre-pro. You are much better off with a pre-pro and a player for two channel music. | |
| Best sounding LP's For new LPs, I have found all the Super Analogue discs from Cisco as good as it gets. Their Vanguard label is also great but, limited titles. | |
| Need SS amp rec for Hovland HP 100 pre I didn't look up your system to see what your speakers were but, Hovland makes a pretty good SS amp. I am using a 4 channel Theta Dreadnaught in a vertical bi-amp configuration with a Hovland pre and it seems to work fine. I would think any of the... | |
| How long should vinyl last? I have a used record of the Mills Brothers that has a 1938 date on the jacket. It has no scratches, no hiss, no pops. PPP must play records on a old victrola with a knitting needle. The idea that a layer of vinyl is removed with each playing is a ... | |
| Best Cheap acoustic wall treatments? You are right, Home Depot does not carry it. If there is a Lowes in your area, they carry it. Otherwise go to the Owens-Corning website and do a search for dealers in your area. It is similar but, not the same as the rigid insulation that Home Dep... | |
| Vanderteen 5A's versus Wilson WattPuppy 7's My favorite audio dealer in the Los Angeles area happens to be both a Vandersteen and a Wilson dealer. I have listened to both the 5As and the Wilson 7's in the same room with the same electronics. I have heard them both using all Jadis electronic... | |
| What is the standard for judging a systems sound? I agree with the above. A stereo system will never sound the same as the "real" thing.Personally, my standard is, I judge a system by if it sounds good to me or not. That is why there is so much debate about what speaker is good and which isn't. W... | |
| Cable elevators After going to a seminar given by Richard Vandersteen, I made my own cable elevators. He stated that speaker cables should be elevated off the floor at least eight inches and should be four inches apart.I simply took some left over four by four wo... |