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| Amps for ESL Hello Milk&juice,Although I presently own and peddle another brand of electrostat, I've also owned several pairs of Quads (though not the 988's).Of the two amps you mention, I'd suggest the Classe'. I try to kinda specialize in amps that work ... | |
| Parasound Halo JC-1 Hello Bill,Thanks for your kind words.I'd have to say that, between the Clayton M-100 and Parasound JC-1, it would probably depend on the voicing of the speaker.The only such direct comparison I've made was on a pair of Gradient Revolutions, which... | |
| Parasound Halo JC-1 Disclaimer: I'm a dealer, so get out your grains of salt...My experience is primarily with the amps (and speakers) that I sell, and I don't sell Levinson gear. I can't say that I've heard Levinson amps in a familiar enough environment to make a fa... | |
| Viva & Martin-Logans? A few years ago Sound Lab showed at CES with Viva amps, and from what I understand they worked quite well together. A number of Sound Lab owners went on to become Viva owners as well. Since Sound Lab electrostats are, if anything, a more difficult... | |
| Have you owned Sound Labs Electrostatics? Hello Lrsky,So you got the hear the Sound Labs at CES 2003, eh? Which room - the once at Alexis Park with Parasound JC-1's, or the one at the St. Remo with Atma-Sphere MA-2's? I happen to be a Sound Lab owner and dealer, as well as a dealer for bo... | |
| Looking for a Speaker in the $15,000 Range Kjl,As a former Quad owner, in my experience it's pretty hard to go back to dynamic loudspeakers. The openness and clarity and natural ease of the Quads is a tough act to follow.I try not to always post a "buy something I sell" post here at Audiog... | |
| replacing Dunlavy SC-IV's Dazzdax,At the risk of being overly simplistic, in what areas are you especially looking for improvement over the SC-IV's? Even up around 15 grand, you'll be making trade-offs. You see, different speakers excel in different areas...How loud do you... | |
| Clayton M100 Monoblocks?? Well, let me start out with the disclaimer - I'm a Clayton dealer. But I was a Clayton owner before I became a dealer. The M100 presents an excellent combination of liveliness and harmonic richness. However, before I could recommend this (or any o... | |
| 360 degree radial speakers and imaging... At frequencies above 1500 Hz, the ears derive directional cues primarily by relative intensity, rather than by arrival time. So if you have an omnidirectional system, you want to make sure that early reflected energy is fairly well diffused so you... | |
| Experience with Wolcott's on cone speakers? I have a customer who's using Wolcotts on a pair of Dunlavy's (Model IV's, as I recall), and he's quite happy with them. I have another customer who tried Wolcotts on Wilson Maxx's and as I recall he preferred the Tenors. So unfortunately I can't ... | |
| Electrical problem associated with all of my amps Schubert -You might want to call your electric company. There should be a 200-amp line going into your house, but a lot of older houses just have a 120-amp line going in. A friend of mine had a similar problem and he called his power company and t... | |
| Holy Grail of Audio Systems Audiophanatik -If nothing else, you're a helluva writer.One comment, regarding "Is it possible to ever 100% perfectly recreate an analog sound?"Nope.But what a good system can do is convincingly mimic some aspect of a live performance. It might be... | |
| Are Dealer Recommendations Useful or Useless? As a dealer, this has been a thoroughly entertaining and educational thread for me. It's nice to see that dealers have been useful to many of you, and educational to see in what areas we often fall on our faces (such as blindly recommending stuff ... | |
| Problems with my Berning ZH270 I'm going to guess that your tonal balance problem is a lack of bottom end, which shows up as brightness. Addressing this situation may well involve radically re-arranging your room. To test out this hypothesis without moving stuff all around, try... | |
| Amp/pre for Soundlab M1s Advice: Digital or no? Mshan -I'm a dealer for both Sound Lab and Parasound JC-1's. They work exceptionally well together. The Sound Labs in my living room are hooked up to JC-1's right now, even though I have some other amps on hand that are several times the price. I ... |