ballhog
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| Favorite cable brand. Without question I prefer Swisscables, I have their Reference interconnects, Reference speaker cables and their incredibly good Diamond power cord. | |
| Swiss cables In my system they are incredible. I have Reference interconnects, reference speaker cables and the Diamond power cord. In my 50 years in this awesome but spendy hobby, I have had many many different cables from cheap to $8400 power cords and the s... | |
| Disappointment with Pass Labs - I'm looking for something else I have a Pass Labs INT-25 and find it to be an excellent, very musical Integrated amplifier. | |
| Best integrated for my needs???? Raven Audio is a very safe choice as they offer 45 day no hassle return, they have some excellent lower priced speakers too, the Celeste. | |
| Best integrated for my needs???? I would suggest starting with some excellent speakers and there are quite a few. The Tannoy Prestige speakers are very nice and beautiful also, QLN Prestige 3 are very highly rated. As far as excellent integrateds either the Raven Audio BlackHawk ... | |
| Wells Audio Majestic Integrated Amp I am using a Salk Streamer, the Lampizator Lite 7, and some excellent Dana Cables with the Majestic. The combination of these with my Salk Sound S8's creates a sound that is very rich and detailed. | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced Wells Audio Majestic 150 wpc integrated @$3499 . An incredible sounding amplifier. | |
| Wells Audio Majestic Integrated Amp I have had the Majestic for a week now and am very impressed with it. I sold a VAC Sigma 160i SE to buy it. After 70 hours it has really opened up, I do not feel as though the sound of my system has suffered at all since changing from the VAC whic... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Jm I did not listen to them side by and you did buy my vac. The SE is much better and certainly worth the extra cash outlay in my opinion. Dan | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I recently purchased the VAC Sigma 160i se prior to this I owned the Sigma 160i. What I hear is a much improved mid range, better pace and rhythm and also a much better and tighter bass. The overall sound is probably a good 30% better than the bas... | |
| Interconnect with great dynamics and bass slam , In my humble opinion having had the Absolutes, I believe the Thales interconnects to be better. I have them and the Thales speaker cables which are easily the best I have heard in my system now and probably will never need to change from them. | |
| Speakers for VAC sigma 160i -- need inputs I use a pair of Salk Sound ss8's with the VAC and am quite pleased with the sound. I have also swapped the Chinese stock tubes with nos Mullard 12au7's , Cifte 12au7's, the Mazda silverplate 12ax7 that I often switch with a 1958 Mullard longplate ... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables The best I have heard are the Stage III Gryphon. They are an absolutely superb interconnect cable. | |
| Ear Candy: Most startling recordings. Hans Theesink Sounds of the Southland is excellent as are the two latest recordings by Ray Bonneville, Roll it Down and his newest Goin' by feel | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio Floorstanders vs. Adagio Jrs They are very similar in sound. With a sub you would be just fine with the JR.'S. I owned both and the main difference I heard was in the bass. |