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| Working backwards... Well, a little cheaper. Not much, though.You may eventually have the option of running the pre->power interconnect in balanced mode, which will help reject some of the noise that comes from having long cable runs. You can't do this with speaker... | |
| Working backwards... I had some little British box speakers: ProAc Tablettes. I ran them with a Classe CA200, and the pairing was good. The Tablettes didn't need anywhere near that much power. I find each to be slightly on the bright side (the Tablettes more so than t... | |
| Upgrade Path: CDP or Preamp Here's another opinion. I've owned a fair amount of B&K stuff, which is pretty good but not nearly at the level of some of the other stuff that's been mentioned here. Somebody mentioned a CJ - something like a PV12 can be had for well under $1... | |
| Maggie 1.6QR vs 3.6R and Room Size If you're interested, you definitely should listen to horns. Horns are something that you either love or don't, which is why you get such mixed reviews. The good thing about horns, in your case, is that they typically are so efficient that you can... | |
| Amp's to mate with Martin Logan Prodigy speaker's I've got Odysseys instead of Prodigys, but they're generally pretty similar in their amplifier requirements. I'm biamping with a Counterpoint SA-220 (hybrid tube/SS) for the panels and a Classe CA-200 for the bass cones. The line stage is a Counte... | |
| Shanling CDT-100 Great or Bad ? I heard the CDT-100 a couple of weeks ago, and I was quite impressed. It was playing through a set of equipment with which I'm not familiar, but which has the reputation of being really top-flight: a Rowland amp (the 302, I think), a new Aesthetix... | |
| Electrostatic speaker placement I have Cara 2.2. Be aware that Cara 2.2 does NOT model Martin Logan's hybrids very well at all. The ML full-range planars are somewhat better, but not well represented either.The problem is that MLs have several features that are difficult or impo... | |
| Maggie 1.6QR vs 3.6R and Room Size I haven't compared the 1.6s to the 3.6s directly, but they are generally similar in power consumption, from what I understand. And I do have direct experience with the 3.6s, powered by a CJ MV60. This was definitively NOT enough power to power the... | |
| Speakers like 'stats but for smaller rooms? Thanks for the points so far. A couple of clarifications:- The room is bass-heavy even with the sub UNPLUGGED. It's +8 dB at 31 Hz even with my Odysseys set to deliver -3dB in the bass region. A different sub isn't going to fix that.- Both amps de... | |
| Info / opinions re: Outlaw 1050 HT receiver I'm not an owner, but I *have* heard this unit quite a bit (a friend has one) and it's really good for its price. I don't think it's really been out long enough (2 years?) to have a reputation for being reliable or otherwise. They certainly seem t... | |
| Aesthetix Rhea vs. Io Signature I have seen the Rhea but not seriously auditioned it. I have heard it, and it does sound good, but can't comment on the specific A-B.One thing I will say, though, is that the IO produces a stunning amount of heat. I had always heard that tube gear... | |
| component video question? Go ahaed and use the component connection - it is usually vastly superior to even s-video. The only problem you'll have is that now you'll also have to switch the TV inputs when you switch the audio source. Most folks would generally think that's ... | |
| Subs with balanced inputs? Yup, the Descent definitely has an XLR, and it works very nicely connected that way to a Classe SSP :) However, my SSP75 has only ONE balanced LFE out, and the the Descent has only a balanced input - so it'll be difficult to run two subs this way,... | |
| Multi-Channle Amp Dilemma FWIW the Cary got a glowing review in the most recent Perfect Vision. I haven't heard one yet, though.The Classe is a good piece - not equal to biamped BAT-6200's, but also about a fifth of the price. I've only heard it driving Martin Logans and P... | |
| Is less than 24 bits worth it? I've heard it said that the state of the art advances by a little more than one bit per decade. Certainly right now more than 20 bits are lost in the noise floor.As the others have said, a well-executed 16-bit player sounds better than a typical m... |