blindjim
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| Replacement I'd think about a Sony SCD 9000es, or XA777es, or SCD 1. The SCD 1 offers balanced & single ended outs. New, I've seen the 9000s online for less than $1800.Sony has great bottom end, and is quite dynamic or punchy. I've ran mine (SCD xa777) RC... | |
| Buying Bookshelves, I love B&W but.... I've owned a few pairs of BW two ways including the N805s, 600s & CDNT 1s.It may likely be due to the level of front end gear driving those units as well.. I recently was very suprised to hear a lowly pair of Canton speakers sound very good, o... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help ONe good thing to have now or soon will be a good source for tubes. I've had great success with aNDY AT Vintage Tubes and THE FOLKS AT AES (Antique Electronic supply in Az.), as well as some private sellers here on the 'gone.RCA & Telefunken 1... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Chap_cat congratulations! There's no right or wrong here really. Just faster and slower.Many tend to agree it all starts up front with the signal producer or source. Walter's dead on there. I was worried for a while.The 'no' rack situation is too ... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Chap_cat Sorry your forray into live auditioning wasn't quite to your expectations... Selling or stepping up a buyer is what salesman do.In my area there is scant little 'customer friendly' audiophile outlets. Either they are incredibly arrogant &... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Well, Dave ol’ buddy, it’s your choice of words mostly, and the notion user/owners don’t have the acumen to make positive changes to a certain topology which gets me.I think what irks me here is how critical, undermining and simply misused, the te... | |
| Projector power cable & conditioner? Nealrm Sure. That is do-able within the NEC standards. however space is at a real premium. Boxes such as Hydras, Ultimate outlets, etc. likely won't fit. The Soloist seems viable... and I've one other resource to investigate.The only wire exposure... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Hello Chap_cat I didn't want to say second hand what a component was like previously, but a friend of mine was quite happy with his Jolita CDP but only after some NOS tubes were installed. He now has a Muse CDP, though.I'd like to know if your pla... | |
| Projector power cable & conditioner? Prpixel Thank you.There was a chandelier up there before... now it's just a round hole awaiting a connection for the PJ. The switch attached to the PJ won't be messed with by company. Lighting in the room will be controled via a Lutron controler w... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Chap_cat I'd add the new Bel Canto digital int with USB DAC to the short list only as an option to the Nu Force entry. I've not heard either BTW... just thought to mention it.Also Macrojack is offering up solid advice here on that Oppo player. I b... | |
| Video and audio cables... Don't mix? Dbphd Thanks. I've little choice in where and how to run this affair aside from location and size of the channeling.... ceiling or wall... It's ceiling for the PJ cables, and hopefully the wall for the rear speaker cables.The decorative fix is jus... | |
| Video and audio cables... Don't mix? Well for good or ill... I'll put up two runs of smaller channel. One for the Audio and the other for video... and just try not to look up too often.Thanks much all for all the imput here. | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Personally, I like the idea of going front to back, myself. Source, preamp, amp, speakers... either way however leads to a positive end, eventually.Interjecting a new source, int. or pre & amp is going to be quite a shift in performance! Addin... | |
| Ear protection for concerts I suppose if one doesn't plan on sticking around this rock for long ear conditioning devices aren't much of a consideration.... or the music enthusiast standing against hearing protection are dangerously shortsighted. Oddly enough, aside from "The... | |
| Treatments or therapy - what on earth.. funny Probably just owns a bunch of cats. |