blackie
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| Krell CAST versus Balanced XLR? The system I heard the CAST comparison on used Tara Labs The One XLR and The One CAST, not the cables Krell sells. For a fair comparison you should compare with Siltech CAST cables. | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? I used to work at a dealer that sold both B&W and Dynaudio and I have had ample opportunity to compare these brands. They are both excellent but they are different, one is not "better" than the other. What cannot be stressed enough is that sys... | |
| Music Hall Maverick SACD Player? It sure looks like a Shanling. I don't know why Music Hall would change products to import when they have had such good luck with the MMF-25. | |
| Reliability Problem with Linn Genki? I used to sell Linn and we never had any service issues with the Genki (or the Ikemi) and we sold quite a few. | |
| suggestion for amp to go with B&W N803 I have to disagree with Psjulian, I find Levinson gear to be too polite and uninvolving with the B&W Nautilus series. Intellectually I understand it but it does not pull me in and make me want to listen to music. As far as integrateds go the M... | |
| To Linn and Theta listeners... I've heard the Ikemi in a number of systems and think it is a great player. The Majik is definately a weak link in the system, the CD and speakers are much more revealing than this little integrated is up to. Chances are your original digital comb... | |
| Would Dynaudio Contours mate well with Denon? If you want Dyns to match with your Denon go with the Audience line (which is quite good) as the Contour line wouldn't be living up to it's potential with a receiver. | |
| Down to 3 speakers, and I'am still confused My preference would be for the N804. I used to sell B&W and Sonus Faber and in a head-to-head comparison of these two speakers the N804 always came out on top. The bass goes lower and is tighter the mids have more warmth and the top end is smo... | |
| List of Unlabeled HDCD's Two more are new Beck album "Sea Change" and the new Sigur Ros album "()". | |
| Anybody heard the new Dynaudio line at CES... Twilo, I think you are mistaken, a tweeter cannot handle any bass (hence it is a tweeter) and all the drivers in the Dynaudios you mentioned are active (not passive radiators). I'm not sure what you heard but what you are saying regarding all the ... | |
| Nick Cave fans? Phasecorrect, hate to pipe up again but Simon Bonney was the singer for Crime And the City Solution, not Rowland. | |
| Nick Cave fans? Your Funeral...My Trial is even better... | |
| High-quality MP3s not comparable to CD WAVs ?? What a perfect name for a MP3 encoder! If you have even a modestly revealing system you will always be ably to tell MP3s from uncompressed WAV files. | |
| Krell or Classe Integrated for Sonus Faber Concert Hate to tell you but the bright, thin sound is part of the sound of the Sonus Faber Home series of speakers. They are voiced for home theater and their character is very different than the Classic series. The Sim I-5 (and the Magnum Dynalab) are a... | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona I used to work for a place that sold SF & B&W so we got to compare these head-to-head on a variety of systems. First of all the Amati is in another league than the Cremona and has a very different sonic signature, lusher, more open, richer... |