blindjim
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| Best HT Receiver Under 1000$ Look at the Onkyo units. I find them as great bargains, reliable, good support, and quite musical. I have the TX SR 805, now it's an 806. Around $800-900 online. HDMI 1.3A, 130-140wpc. THX Certi. zones... a nice line up there with Onkyo. My only r... | |
| which tube mono blocks? A 1000 pound amp?I'd have loved to seen the look on the truck drivers face when they told him to drop that one off this morning.... but at $140K it must come with a motor driven chassis so you can drive it home. | |
| HTPC - What is it that I need? Iomega now has some refurbished USB & firewire drives on sale at their web site.500GB for 70.00 for ex.As good as that is, the network drive is more recommended, yet their x2 drive isn't on sale and still is 300.00 for 1TB.Again, check out bla... | |
| Little bit "forward" sound - what cables to avoid? OK... try tjhe lengthy and costly way first.... start at the A's and go from there.... or listen to those posts above about the cables listed here... MIT, CARDAS, AZ, SR, etc.Good luck. | |
| Should I get a new amp? Fatgh0stMy room is just under 14w x just over 20L with 8 ceilings. Until recently it had two openings, one to either side. One midway back on the left, and another all the way back on the right side. Near field listening was the only place to gain... | |
| Should I get a new amp? Fatgh0sDo you use a sub? If so your choices IMO expand looking at tube amps, or tube ints, which are a real good suggestion... eg., Prima Luna, Antique Sound Labs, Cary, VTL, etc. Even some under 100 wpc.your desires for bass output will matter to... | |
| CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units? DrubinWell... OK.Everybody that's either duped a CD and gave it as a gift, or went to the library and ripped that CD onto their PC.... Raise your hand... or not.Also anyone that's bought used CDs... Guilty?Why yes I am. So as Adlai Stevenson so ap... | |
| CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units? Drubin When I bought my 'Whatever CDs' did I somehow agree I would never resell or gift them to another?If it's illegal to resell CDs or any other disc, or album, preowned, why would this site or any others participate, and thereby endorse, such i... | |
| Should I get a new amp? I'll second the 100 wpc notion for tube amps... or in that area.Watts is watts BUT power supplies aren't all made equally.That's where many transformer based tube amps differ. Manley, Dodd, McIntosh, Cary, VTL, Prima Luna, Quicksilver, CJ, etc... ... | |
| HTPC - What is it that I need? Get the Wednesday & Thursday paper... Grab a reasonable hunk of dough... and heaed out early This Thursday evening to a local BB or CC and get on line there. When they start passing out the tickets for pc stuff, laptops, towers, network drives... | |
| Should I get a new amp? Assuming you want an SS amp I'd say look at Belles and Odyssey. both are very well reviewed. I own an Odyssey Stratos SE I bought new recently within your budgetary constraints. the Belles will run more, but if used, should be in your range too.I'... | |
| HTPC - What is it that I need? ATI used to make a PCI card called an ALL IN WONDER... or all in one. Audio and video. There are others. If a audio video card outputs via HDMI, and possesses 1080p & 24/192 audio, you/he should be set, save for the hardware & software nee... | |
| Little bit "forward" sound - what cables to avoid? I've found components are as much the issue as are wires. Power cords too can have a great effect in changing the geography of the sound stage. So can tubes, but less so.Cables I've found which layout the SS from the loudspeakers rearward, are Shu... | |
| Synergistic Research vs Gabriel Gold vs PAD IC's Ditto... what sort of improvement (s) or changes are you seeking?I've tried 3 or 4 of the SR ICs. I kept the Resolution Ref x2 actives over the Acoustic Ref, Accelerators, & Alphas. I posted a review on the RR x2 as well. that one came out on ... | |
| which tube mono blocks? If I'mn not mistaken, Wolcott ads say they are designed to be run with demanding loads, in particular flat speakers. they should fall into your budget as a stereo amp. Monos might not though.check 'em out, they're very well regarded and a long sta... |