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Primare I35 Prisma
OP the Primare gear is excellent I would make sure you can evaluate it vs other similarlly priced contenders.The Primare with streaming board is $5,000.00 and it is 80 watts,The Micromega M100 is 100 watts and is $4,500.00 with Tidal, Spotify and ... 
AudioControl receiver vs separates
We are an Audio Control dealer and have direct experience with both their processors and their A/V receivers.To answer your question, yes a very high end receiver can beat lesser or similarily priced separates. It is all in the design of the piece... 
Best multi channel amp and processor good for 2 channel listening.
Rechsm, thanks for confirming it. The Maestro was built to sound really good and not be just a feature oriented product. The fact that use top of the line burr brown dacs and use chips for each channel and a massive power supply does show how good... 
Amplifier ideas with KEF Reference 1
Keliophant, what cables and power conditoning are you using with your Hegel? Your treble thiness might be from your cabling, power, or room acoustics.Are you using Roon? Have you tried converting PCM to DSD playback if the Hegel will allow for tha... 
Best multi channel amp and processor good for 2 channel listening.
Bwguy and Randyhat, the T2 is a huge improvement over the T1 in everyway sonically and build quality. Mquar we are an Audio Control dealer and their products are really excellent, the Audio Control product is superior to the less expensive Arcam, ... 
Recommendation on power amp
Rs507 we are sorry that you feel that way, and you are basing everything you know about us about what we write on audiogon, it is not the same to actually visit a place and talk to the owners  in person.Caphill we are also big Naim fans we don't h... 
Where to hear ATC speakers
Andrew, sorry for the inability to have you over to the shop the other day at short notice, we are primed and ready for demos this week.If you liked the Sabrinas, the Legacy Signature sounds very similar at less then half the price, both speakers ... 
Integrated Amps - Ayre vs Pass Labs
Jafant, did our first shoot out vs the Naim Uniti Nova, fascinating demo.Both were awesome, however the demo wasn't equil, we had the Nova plugged into an Audio Magic Oracle with a Combaix Power Cord with Isoacoustics footers vs the Krell K300i on... 
Why the facination with integrated amps?
bac2vinyl we are a Parasound dealer and the A21 is an excellent amplifier for its price, howerver, a $6k Coda intergrated sounds far superior, then the A21 with the P5  preamp, which would be a $3,500 package, as we demoed that combination vs the ... 
Krell XD gear in the House Initial Impressions
Mental everyone has a different style, sorry if ours seems long winded we go into detail other than, gee new Krell sounds good, company back go check it out! If I was a  consumer and hey we are consumers as well, considering we don't get the gear ... 
Krell XD gear in the House Initial Impressions
Micheal, we think the reason is that people kind of written off the brand based on some of the negative issues involving the hostile take over and rousting of Dan and Rhondi in the recent past, then then there was the radical new look and new Ibia... 
Why the facination with integrated amps?
Here is a dealers take on the matter, our company Audio Doctor sells a lot of integrated amplifiers we carry three classes of integrated amplifiers:1: Class One, is a lifestyle oriented integrated amplifier these tend to have built in dacs and str... 
streaming DACs around $4k
Marklarsen, how did you upgrade the "hardware of the PS audio product without switching platforms entirely are you saying that you upgraded the hardware by switching out the firmware?The earlier Perfect wave dac could not morph magically into the ... 
streaming DACs around $4k
The Lumin T2 is burning in nicely and sounding extraordinary, for an all in one streamer we have never heard anything better. The T2 just sounds so three dimensional it is intoxicating and it is so smooth, just beautiful.Personally we feel that th... 
Decided to buy a high-end CDP - Need help inn the last mile!
Sudhiral, we would recommend a different approach, you have a good streaming setup by hardly state of the art. We have found that state of the art streaming rigs will generally outperform even really top end CD players.The Auralic Dacs are very go...