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| Review: Odyssey Audio Stratos Amplifier I have several high end amps my cheapest one I used the Emotiva xpa 2 for mainly movies I put it against my stratos plus,NOT IN THE SAME LEAGUE .This is a very musical amplifer,one BIG improvement is replacing the 4 fuses on the circuit board , an... | |
| How good is Emotiva 2 channel gear?? To all I have worked modding electronics for years .For $800 the Xpa 2 is a good deal,BUT it is grainy , if you replace the 7 fuses with Hifitung Supreme fuses for$300 the quality is at least 15% better and worth it .The Odyssey Stratos amp especa... | |
| Jeff Rowland Design Group's Stereo 625 The 625 may be great but Limited .I was thinking on purchasing one and my Reference 2 box Vacuum tube pre is single ended Not true Balanced the Rowland 625 Only comes Balanced ,what an oversite over 80% of all Audiophiles have rca connectors and c... | |
| Krell EVO 302 or 302e The New 302 E is much much better in ever way it has tons of technology from their flagship model including the ACT cascading technologys which the 302 does not have. The New 302E sound better than the older 402. I have heard one to one at the aud... | |
| Has anyone tried the Shunyata Diamondback PC? The shunyata Venom 3 is the new best of at price point to performance ratio $99 for a cable that meats many $300 cables.p.s has also won many awards. | |
| Plinius SA-102 for Magnepan 3.6 Martin Logan Vantage Spire Ethos or Summitt are all powered for the Bass which takes a lot of burdon off the amp.A good quality amplifier of at least 150wpc into 8 ohms and 300 into 4 ohms is a well designed amplifiertube amps a 80wpc or more woul... | |
| New speakers from Martin Logan, Ethos $6495 The 2k Electromotion panel is a very good speaker and beats many speakers at more than 2x this and is speaker of the year in at least 2 publication. For the record after Gayle Sanders sold the company and for a few years it went through transition... | |
| Best tweak - System Improvement Hello I would like to say without reservation ,I was using the Art de son cd cleaner which was a step up from the Optrex ,Now I have just starting using the Ultra Bit Platinum + . I can say the Ultra bit By Far is the best I have ever had.I applie... | |
| Jim Salk's Speakers? with 5" drivers the Bass was still pretty respectable Not earth shatering like a 10 or 12" that is impossibly but still a very solid,this speaker it won 1 5 speaker shootout ,as well as speaker of the year in it's price point so soundsomething mus... | |
| New speakers from Martin Logan, Ethos $6495 Garyjo is correct with the augmentation of the passive radiator it for sure is an improvemnts over the Vantage the mid bass is more linear and sounds pretty dam good for $6k it will beat any $10k conventional speaker out there in a lot of ways .I ... | |
| Modwright LS100 versus Rogue 99 You guys are not totally correct .Myself and others have heard the old Rogue 99 and the newer one as of 2005 with a much larger power supply transformer and capacitors makes for a huge difference . I heard them together while in Ct this was a 200... | |
| Mundorf Silver/Gold in Oil Supreme Caps Any Good? ONe new capacitor that is somewhat over loked made in the U.S and Very good is the New Jupiter Flat Stacked caps they are actuaaly better then the great reviewed Ht capsThis new formula has a much higher Temp rating over 160Fand the Beeswax paper ... | |
| VH Audio Vcaps The vh audio caps are very good but the AuraT caps are just a little cleaner sounding and better low level detailMyself and another DIY freind experimented with amps preamp and speaker Xover as bypass caps . They both take a lot of hours to runin ... | |
| Any new users of the Audience I Have directly compared the Teflon Vcap and the Auri T capacitors as well as one of my freinds I lent .1 caps as just bypasses the Auri T i tried in loudspeaker Xovers and on a preamp my freind did the same but also did a amplifier .The Auri T wa... | |
| Best tweak - System Improvement obout the Millenium cd mat, I reserve my ultimate approval as to being somewhat sysytem dependant ,it does give better detail But also pushes the soundstage up front to first row ,if your sysytem is a little laid back then this disc would be a gre... |