calloway
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| Who R U? great thread..my name is dave smith 'calloway'.married...9 cats (7 inside),and a 130lb old english sheepdog,also inside.i am a physician assistant,by profession,work 3 days a week in an urgent care facility.i also own a home health care facility a... | |
| Opinions on Hovland HP 100 brian..'calloway' here. mine is #1284.glad you like it,by the way. it is a great preamp,imo. | |
| Opinions on Hovland HP 100 i just bought a hovland hp100 about 2 months ago and it is superb!! i am not sure what the first poster was listening to but there must have been something wrong in another part of the system. the preamp is the most musical pre i have ever heard.i... | |
| VA: Anybody in southern VA interested in an audio club? ozzy..sounds great. i live in danville,va..just 45 minutes north of greensboro,nc. | |
| Top Ten Speakers of All Time? all the speakers mentioned here are good to great speakers.i have heard most of them ,in one setting or another,realizing that each is different.i would be willing to bet that most,if not all the posters,have not heard piega p10 speakers.( if you ... | |
| Nordost Valhalla vs. Acoustic Zen you're comparing apples and oranges..i have tried zen's and own valhallas' ....apples and oranges!! | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? piega p10s...have owned ref vr5s hse.merlin vsm,heard dunlavy Vs,quad 989s, vansderstein 5s,revel salons,b&w 801s,wilson watt puppys,ceramique 1s,eggleston andras,ariels and others twice as expensive and all fall far short of the p10s. | |
| any further experience with PIEGA P10? i have had mine for about 100 hrs now and can say without hesitation that they are the best speakers i have heard under 25k-30k. i agree with the previous poster,give steve a call and listen to a pair that has been properly set up and broken in. y... | |
| Favorite sounding interconnects? having tried many different brands of interconnects,cardas,harmonic tech,acoustic zen,audio tekne,synergistic reference,purist audio and most recently xlo limited edition and nordost 'valhallas the last 2 are defininely in a small group of interco... | |
| Any speaker cable's sound quality just blown you away? the nordost 'valhalla' cables are superb. have had them in my system,biamped to my aloia 13.01 amps with piega p10 speakers for over a month now and they are,by far, the best i have had in my system.(that includes cardas,audio tekne)they are extre... | |
| What's phase 0 degree - 180 degree? worldcup...for a detailed explanation to your questions let me refer you to lars fredell's article on the subject in the summer 2000 issue of ultimate audio mag. the terms 'phase' and 'polarity' are used interchangably most of the time.when cds or... | |
| which powercord? jps,esp,shunyata....? i have 2 viper2s,one nbs statement and recently installed 2 whale elites that made more of a difference,at 1/2 the cost of the others,in my 2 amps.they are very good cords.great bass response,better vocals,better transient response. | |
| Opinions on XLO, Tara Lab, Synergistic i have tried the synergistic,purist audio 'dominus' and xlo limited edition and bought the xlo le. i then tried and bought the le digital and one other interconnect pair.they are great. the pa was very good also bought its size,in my system, prohi... | |
| Gershmann/VonSchweikert/Silverline tim..i have a pair of the vr5s. they are reference vr5s with the hovland upgrade. i have had them since 1/01 and love them.my frontend gear is aloia 13.01 inductive amps x 2 ( vertically biamped ),aloia 11.01 prteamp,scd-1,dodson 217 mkII d dac. i... | |
| Aloia's and Power aloias' are conservatively rated at 30 watts but actually measure out at about 75 watts.i have vr5s and the aloia will play loud enough to make my ears bleed. you will not be unhappy with them. |