avanti1960
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| What Ampliffier And Magico A3 I heard a system with Magicos and McIntosh tube preamp / DAC with their 1KW mono block amplifiers. The sound was phenomenal. Should be within your budget. | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? PS audio’s voicing tends to be on the warm side and was a good complement to the ATCs "surgical" sound.Introducing a tube preamp does not necessarily mean that it will sound warm but rather sound more transparent with midrange bloom / forwardness,... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? I like everything in my system to be "just so"- e.g. cables organized, components perfectly aligned and centered in the rack, speakers positioned precisely, speaker cables run neatly, etc.I have the personality that I need visual order. Without ... | |
| Considering Rogue Audio or P.S. Audio I have heard the RP-5 and Stereo 100 at dealers and shows and it is right up there with the best sounding systems I have ever heard regardless of price. Hum must be related to the user’s home wiring. I have never had any issues. I just took delive... | |
| Please recommend a good Tech in NYC/Brooklyn There was a very good tech mentioned in a Stereophile article and possibly video a year or two ago based in Manhattan I believe. Great reputation and very knowledgable. Worth searching for. Oh - just found it- Blackie Pagano. | |
| Me vs. JL Audio - An open discussion. I have owned different subs including a recent JL Audio D-Series and have heard their E and Fathom series as well as many other brands. Curiously the JLs do really well in the one area you almost never read about in subwoofer reviews- they sound ... | |
| Spendor D7.2 Preamp-Amp Pairing I had the D7s for a while and they sounded incredible with a Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum II. If you must go solid state I would recommend a tube preamp with solid state amplifier- e.g. Primaluna EVO 100 + Parasound a23+FYI they take at least 200 ho... | |
| Hidden Gems in Pre-Owned Solid State Power Amplifiers? Any love for the Cary solid state power amps? They come up regularly but don't seem to be a dime a dozen like many others.... | |
| Hidden Gems in Pre-Owned Solid State Power Amplifiers? hopefully we find that one man's seller's remorse = another man's great deal and not always just a washed up, flawed hand me down. i find that it takes work to get the best out of new pieces in your system, new or used. although there are many r... | |
| Tekton DI's or Klipsch Forte III none of the above | |
| Eh hem!...Subwoofers... What do ya know? Unless you really need the deepest room shaking notes found on that occasional track or action movie sound track- a full range (or near full range) speaker driven by plenty of power is a better solution for me. 100 watts driving the main speakers... | |
| Best integrated tube amplifier, under $3,000.00. No phono needed. Could be used, too.d The Raven Audio Blackhawk has the best sound out of the box- truly high end rich yet transparent.If you need more power the Rogue CM II/III can sound nearly as good with some tube rolling of the 5 small signal tubes. May have been supporting syst... | |
| Power Amp To Go With Cary SLP98P Preamp I heard the 98 at a dealer powering a Parasound a21 and it sounded good- slightly better than the Cary 200.2- but I felt the '98 was the bottleneck, not the amps. the sound was too thick and sluggish. perhaps tube rolling would fix that. | |
| Would switching amps make a big difference? A lot of suggestions about how it would sound "on paper" but in the real world the Raven Osprey is a high end bargain. You should consult with Dave the owner- he has integrity and will not sell you on something that won't work. People said the LS... | |
| What's more important in a difficult room, room correction or higher, clean, power? I have had room correction based subwoofers and they are limited as to what they can correct in the bass response. They definitely do not satisfactorily correct issues that are caused by poor fundamental integration between room and main speakers... |