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| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? This was a really illuminating discussion. I have always had a McIntosh power amp (currently a MC 312) plugged into a Furman Elite 15 power conditioner and never thought much about it. After reading this discussion, I tried plugging the amp into... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps That is surprising that your dealer is willing to pass up on an expensive sale by not offering to have a couple of employees deliver the amp to your home. Have you asked? I purchased a McIntosh MC 312 clocking in at 138 lbs in its box from Magnoli... | |
| Mcintosh pre amp pricing Congratulations indeed. I bought new C53 to replace a 20+ year old C41 last month. (The C41 is now sitting on my shelf, but my son is eyeing for when he gets a bigger apartment). I have to say the C53 is a big sonic upgrade and the DA2 digital ... | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus Hot Tuna at the Palladium in November 1977. I can still hear that concert more than 45 years later! | |
| How long do speakers last? I have a pair of JSE .8 Infinite Slope speakers that I purchased in 1988 that still sound so great. I ended up giving them to my son in Philly last year when I no longer needed them in my secondary system and he loves them. They have had no recond... | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! I just got a Project Debut Carbon Evo for the holidays. This is my first turntable since the 70's, and it does indeed sound stunning with a good vinyl pressing. (If you like Phish, try the LP on LP releases for great sounding vinyl). Even more r... | |
| Music Servers/External Drives Lanx0003 makes a good point. If you use an external hard drive, BACK IT UP REGULARLY!!! They have a tendency to fail with little or no notice. I keep a clone of my main drive connected to a difference stereo in the house. I find that the Seaga... | |
| Music Servers/External Drives I recommend using Exact Audio Copy for ripping CDs. It provides a bit perfect rip and is free shareware. I don't think that you can rip to ALAC, but conversion between ALAC, FLAC, WAV and many other lossy and lossless formats is easy with DBPowe... | |
| Recommendations for good sounding streamer I'm partial to Cambridge Audio streamers. They are a bit more expensive (around $1,100), but are very versitile in terms of connection options. I have an Azur 851N that I use primarily to play purchased music from a hard drive, but it also has s... | |
| Favorite religious song Palm Sunday -- Jerry Garcia Band 3/18/78 Warner Theater, Wash. DC | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer I've been powering B&W 702 signatures with a 20 year old 200 watt/channel McIntosh MC 202 solid state amp, and every time I think about updating the amp, I say to myself: "Why? This amp sounds great and has the muscle to power to 702s as they... | |
| Recommended USB Cables. I recently put an Audioquest Diamond USB 3.0 cable between a Seagate external drive (housing 24 and 16 bit FLAC and ALAC files) and a Cambridge Audio 851N streamer and was amazed by the results. There is no other way to put it other than that the... | |
| Underpowered? So I am powering the B&W 702 Signatures with a 20 year old McIntosh MC 202 (200 watt) solid state amp with a MC C41 solid state pre-amp and the B&W's just come alive every time I power them up. The sound stage and clarity are stunning whe... | |
| AQ JitterBug with high-end music server/streamer and high-end DAC? I attached a Jitterbug from a Seagate 8 TB HD into a Cambridge Audio 851N streamer and heard an immediate improvement. The sound seemed warmer and less harsh. I was not using an audiophile grade USB cable, so I'm not sure if that made a differen... |