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| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Used to own BAT30SE preamp. A/B with ARC preamp before. What I hear actually agrees with Sean's comment, althouth it is 51SE. BAT seem have more mid when play louder, while at low volume bass and high are still there but middle frequency seem fade... | |
| Best power amp to match Sonus Extrema speakers Add high power Accuphase. Running P800 on them and don't feel the power is limited. Extrema loves power/current, the more the better. Normal size tube amps hardly get enough current unless you really want to afford tens of power tubes. Because ext... | |
| Easier maintenance ARCVT100mkII or VTL mb125 Customer usually has to adjust bias because playing around NOS tubes(especially those unproved sources). Standard 6550 on ARC usually don't create problem, I used to own ARC VT100II and classic 120 for total of 6 years(no problems). I am not sure ... | |
| Upgrading from Tyler Ref Monitors Merlin and SF's are out of your range even used.Dyaudio is probably close to $3K used but it is a changllage to your amp.I don't know Avalon's used price.So I agree: Virgo IIAdd Totem Mani-2 or SF Electra Amatar, used, to the list. | |
| My M20s were humbled Just hear:Be micro utopia side by side with dynaudio S3.4.Dynaudio has more details and bigger soundstage.For $500~1K more, why not get the fuller range dyn's.Add one good stand, they are the same price, plus you probably don't need a sub for S3.4... | |
| Do cd's store a more exact copy of sound than LP's 16 bits do not provide enough data space for complex music for orchestra or big band Jazz. To put all music into CD format simply compress data, and therefore lost some information for complex music. Therefore, playing CD seems like there are only... | |
| SPeakers 90% of your sound If you have garbage speakers:#$%@ in garbage out for sure. | |
| Sony 9000es v. Phillips 963SA - anyone compared? Solowiski,I audit several Arcam CD players after reading some of your previous posts. Unfortunately, to my ears, S9000ES playing SACD is better than Arcam's redbook. Arcam's redbook did not beat SACD's dynamics, soundstage, and resolution IMO. If ... | |
| A vintage DAC I like this DAC too. Use a CANARE with BNC on DAC end is better than use a RCA cable with a RCA/BNC adaptor. Prefer balanced output. | |
| Shanling T100 to the T200 shootout In a church, lots of echo (but phase is random due to many reflections) and we love it. In a samll room with mirrors, echo is too strong and coherent, we hate it. Tube add some distortion, we may like the extra harmonics. You are right about these... | |
| Shanling T100 to the T200 shootout Again, people are arguing their horses running faster than cars because of emotion. Any one think their PC's 386 running better than P4 here? Because your horse running faster than a crappy car, does not mean any car will lose to your horse. Get a... | |
| Shanling T100 to the T200 shootout Add two more facts:(1)Some high-end redbook machines converts PCM(CD) to DSD(used in SACD) and have good result simply because coding/decoding/tranmission on DSD is simply better.(2)New high end CD players tend to play games on upsampling to smoot... | |
| Shanling T100 to the T200 shootout In the beginning, I try to A/B same versin of SACD and CD. Not impressed by remastered recording from 10 or 20 years ago. Then, try DSD recording Mahler symphony by TELARC. Don't even need to bother A/B, that's something I can only hear from LP. S... | |
| BAT stuff and Cables When you bridge a balanced CKT to a SE input, you lost a few dB of gain. Also balanced CKT has better immunity for common mode noise, you lost it when you bridge it to SE. In other words, it will suffer more distortion from power supply coulping f... | |
| SACD - what gives? When I attend a live concert, do we hear lots of details and something extra which is not "musical"? I would say "yes" we do, hope most people agree. If that did not prevent us from going live performance, it means that details or some noise will ... |