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Gryphon Integrated or Seperates for $20K Pre/Power budget?
The separates vs the uber integrated arguement an age old question.The Gryphon Diablo is one of a class of uber integrated amplifiers the others being  products from Vitus, T+A, Dartzheel, D'agastino and a few others. We do not sell the Gryphon bu... 
Paradigm Persona series
Great comments Dvdboulet, yes it about synergy. Your post was very illuminating wouldn't it have been nice if some of those dealers actually had your equipment on display, might have made it easy?Your comments, We all know that gear matters... and... 
Aurelic G2 or Aurender N10
Mcgreif, we have used all of these products with a wireless to wired bridge. These are inexpensive little boxes that enable you to use an ethernet enabled device on a wifi network.Netgear makes a very good one it is about $60 bucks at Best Buy and... 
Paradigm Persona series
Cmsgold you miss our points entirely,  It is not about patting our selves on the back it is stating a simple reality.We visit a lot of dealers all over the country and there are good dealers with matching equipment, to showcase expensive loudspeak... 
Paradigm Persona series
Cmsgolf your loss, we have plenty of clients who love us. As per another dealer, lets face the reality, many of the stores that sell high end loudspeakers have poor setups either they don’t have a good sound room or they lack the kinds of gear tha... 
What amps/preamps/integrateds to use with a particular speaker?
The Signature is still the better of the two speakers, it is larger and it is a bit more expensive, however, the drivers on the Signature are better.The classic HD are good, the Signatures are even better. In terms of overall performance you have ... 
Aurender vs. Roon
mrdon are you looking for a server or a streamer?The Naim Ndx 2 oor a 555 are expensive streaming dacs, the  NDX  is $7500 for example. The Lumin D2 is excellent but it also includes a dac while the U1 does not.  The Aurender and Innuous products ... 
How much difference does an anti-vibration audio rack make
Hello OP,to answer your question vibration isolation racks make a very noticable improvement in a good system and can take a good system into a great system.We have never tested this rack but it does seem very well engineered.Per the gentleman tha... 
What amps/preamps/integrateds to use with a particular speaker?
diofan we are legacy audio dealers can you go up to the Focus Signatures they are a big improvement over the Classics.How loud do you play? How far away from the speakers are you?Part of the amplifier equation is the source components some integra... 
Aurender vs. Roon
Twoch, Roon is one big boat anchor? What are you smoking Roon rocks, if you notice more and more manufacturers are making their products Roon compatible endpoints, we just put out a new Krell K300i integrated amplifier for example and I can seemle... 
Best multi channel amp and processor good for 2 channel listening.
Bwguy and Randyhat, we have the T2 on order out of the first ten coming into the country. The guys from Lumin seem to think that the T2 outperforms the A1 which does have the outboard power supply. The Lumin engineers are out of broadcast engineer... 
Have you ever wondered why speaker manufactures do not consign speakers to dealers?
Stevecham, you are absolutely right about your above feelings.We just boxed up a pair of Paradigm Persona 3F and a Naim amp and preamp/dac streamer and drove 40 mins to a guys house to home demo.If you offered to put the gear on your credit card, ... 
Have you ever wondered why speaker manufactures do not consign speakers to dealers?
Steve59 everyone has a different persepective and I am hardly a rich guy all of my money made in the last 15 years is sitting in my audio store.The reality of what you think are naueasting markups don't tell you half the story, if all of us brick ... 
Aurender vs. Roon
Larryl we have the Ndx 2 xps 2 combo which comes close to the 555.Our favorite streamer the lumin x1 it sounds amazing.Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ 
Sharing Speakers between two amps
You got it all wrong.Take the left and right front outputs from the Denon rec into an analog input on the Rogue amp your main speakers stay on the rogue at all times.To play a movie turn the rouge to the input you ran with the analog output from t...