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| Putting Hi-Fi gear in a mid-fi system -- HELP Even some of the mid- or even not-so-mid-fi players sound pretty decent when connected to a good DAC. I've got a Sony 300-disc jukebox that I connected to the DACs in my Classe SSP-75. Definitely not the equal of a player such as an FMJ 23, Shanli... | |
| Bryston 4B gets HOT. Should I leave it on? By the way, I take it that the Bryston folks aren't too concerned about a dangerous failure? If it's smoking hot and not supposed to be, I'd worry that it might actually cause a fire, especially if it were left on all the time. | |
| Bryston 4B gets HOT. Should I leave it on? The mind boggles at just the thought of using 8 amps for "two" speakers! | |
| Martin Logan vs. Thiel Martin Logans easy to place!?!? Not in my experience. I think they're a pain in the lower posterior to place, to be quite frank about it. Furthermore, conventional wisdom, confirmed at least in my room with my speakers, is that 30" from the rear w... | |
| What is your cost for each system category ? I wondered, so here are my proportions:Speakers 29%Preamp 20%Power Amp 15%Table/Cart/Arm 18%Phono stage 13%Cables, interconnects 5%This is a bit skewed since I got the power amp and table used at great prices, the speakers were new. | |
| Has anyone tried SET tubes amps with maggie 1.6's I'm having a hard time comprehending what I'm reading, since it doesn't seem to match up with my experiences at all. When I auditioned Maggie 3.6's, the dealer used a CJ Premier 17LS preamp and MV55 or MV60 power amp. At moderate volume, it was dr... | |
| Martin Logan Home Theater I have Odyssey, Cinema, Scenarios and Descent. The pre/pro is a Classe SSP-75, main power amps are a Counterpoint SA220 for the Odyssey panels with a Classe CA-200 for the woofers. The Cinema and Scenarios are powered by a B&K ST3140. It doesn... | |
| Martin Logan Prodigy Versus ML Odyssey?? You had them wrinkle up as they broke in, with no other intervention??? | |
| Martin Logan Prodigy Versus ML Odyssey?? I did a direct comparison last summer, although it wasn't precisely in my system. It was at my dealer, who used a similar system. He had two Classe CAM-200s instead of my single CA-200, a Classe CP65 preamp instead of my SSP-75 prepro, my actual t... | |
| older LPs - different EQ? Hmm... where would one find out which labels require which curves? I did play one of those old LPs and it did sound weird, but the equipment was laughably unrealistic, badly configured (bass, treble whacked max, loudness turned on, big boomy Kmart... | |
| Buying LPs - where do you shop I dropped by the Record Man in Menlo Park yesterday, and I was pretty amazed. Although they have no significant classical section (they have only ~200 high-end titles there), their rock/pop, jazz, big band et al selection is huge. In round numbers... | |
| Duel Mono Pre-amp Good point. Frankly at the $1K mark you're looking for something in the low end of the (high end) market. Making it dual mono means doubling up on a lot of stuff. As a result, I'm pretty well certain that even if you find a good one (that Musical ... | |
| Anyone Bi-amping with tube high & solid state lows I'm doing this. My speakers are Martin Logan Odyssey, the amps are a Classe CA-200 for the bass and a Counterpoint SA-220 for the top. The speakers are set up for biwiring/biamping, so that was easy. My preamp is a Counterpoint SA-11 and it has th... | |
| Best Musical Home Theater Speaker If you're serious about multichannel music, you're really putting yourself in a box. For a while I had matching L-C-R speakers but very non-matching surrounds, and that was just fine on movies. At that point I had something like 8:1 investment rat... | |
| Subs for Martin Loagn CLSIIs This is an area where audition is almost mandatory. I listened to a variety of top-flight subs last year and I was surprised that some of the top ones don't integrate well (or, perhaps, easily) with ML's - and I would think that the CLS would be e... |