brauser
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| ARC REF 5SE, CJ GAT or ? The Krell(s) tend to be more analytical with great bottom end extension. I would look for a pre amp with more warmth. At your price point you pretty much can choose anything you want, so I wouldn't be too hasty about a choice but would try several... | |
| Has biwire speaker cabling become "old" ? I had a conversation with John Dunlavy a few years ago on this very topic. His position was that the only way a second set of cables would be of any value is if they had the exact electrical characteristics as the first. Since this is hard if not ... | |
| Fess Up How much have you spent on this Hobby?? I probably should have clarified; out of the 150K (or so), a good part of that has been for source material. At this point, I'm pretty much set as far as equipment is concerned and will be investing in new digital source content options both for m... | |
| Getting the Upgrade Bug Again PLEASE...go to an Audio Show (or two) before shelling out the big bucks. There are so many excellent choices in high end audio these days. If you can afford to be discriminating, why not be. Half the fun is the journey! | |
| Who do you credit for your love of mucic? I really didn't have much of a choice. I was born into a musical family and handed a violin (fiddle) at the age of five. Every weekend we were off playing somewhere and then would tour some through the summer. Country/Gospel/ Bluegrass was pretty ... | |
| Which amp to buy? ARC GS150 or Reference 150 SE? At the level you are looking at, it's all good. ARC, however, has been around a long time and will be around in the future should you need servicing or take advantage of upgrades as they become available. Also, the GS series is just so good lookin... | |
| Need recommendations.. Solo acoustic guitar CDs http://www.doyledykes.com/Lot's to choose from. Seem to keep coming back to this artist. | |
| Room treatment There are a lot of relatively inexpensive products that can improve the performance of a system dramatically without going to the trouble and expensive of redoing a room. High-end 'tweaks' offer serious remedies for system upgrades. Do some resear... | |
| Dunlavy SC IV extra tweeter felt? You have some of the best designed speakers ever produced. I have a pair of the SC-IVs as the front speakers in our reference HT room with an SC-I for the center channel and a set of SC-IIIs for the back corners. Then using two ceiling mount Thiel... | |
| Good Subwoofer recommendations I think SVC makes great lower cost subs. A critical question, though, is if you are just going to be doing movies or will this be your TT/CD/SACD system as well? If you want it to do everything, I strongly recommend a sealed set of subs. Ported su... | |
| Solid State amps with tube preamps The best I have ever heard Martin Logans sound is with tube amps. Long ago I had Infinity RS1Bs and used ARC solid state amps for the bass modules and ARC tube amps for the treble panels. I matched that up with an ARC tube preamp and the best TT I... | |
| Speaker Choice ? You guys may have a laugh at this, but in my 2-channel reference room I'm using the Dunlavy SC-Vs with a Dunlavy subwoofer. Only a few of the subs were made and this one is in an SC-IV cabinet with 4 twelve inch woofers. It's passive so I use a se... | |
| Speaker Choice ? You can find excellent Dunlavy SC-Vs for under 5K and they would be stunning in a room this size. There are a lot of great speakers that do some things very well, but I have not heard any speakers, short of 20K+, that does everything as well as th... | |
| SACD & other Formats I had an expensive TT rig with air bearing arm, vacuum platter etc. and it sounded really good. I started down the digital path with one of the best options at the time and it was not quite as good as the TT. Since then I have changed the digital ... | |
| Rock and roll speakers? Horn loaded speakers are a good choice. Older Altec 'Voice-of-Theater', JBL, Klipsch come to mind. I had the 4 piece Infinity RS1Bs at one point and they certainly could move a lot of air. |