celtic66
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| What's an upgrade from Ryan R610s? I'm breaking my own rule by NOT answering the OP question. I apologize for that rude behavior. Your Ryan R610 speakers are terrific. Keep them. For less than the stated 3K you could markedly improve everything with instead replacing the Furman... | |
| Digital Cable Recommendations Jorma +1 That thing is ridiculous. Torched my Nordost Valhalla 1. Now runs in my main system. Gifted one to a friend and he had the same reaction. Attributes of transparency, attack, larger sound stage and quieter. Was hoping for better and ... | |
| HIFI Speaker active crossovers ... We still await the perfect @kenjit designed and produced transducer. As much as I dearly loved the blokes from Top Gear, their brilliant entertaining critiques, no serious auto designs were ever put forth. They were not foolish enough to endeavo... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? @dmk_hifi The carpet spikes under Gaia footers should not be feared. Two person job, or a really smart dog helping. After footers are set, simply tilt back some and have the other person or dog place under the center of the footer. Repeat. | |
| Best Basic CD Player (no SACD, USB, etc.) It's Rega Apollo. In the scope of price, performance, reliability, it's Rega. At this very moment I'm listening to it push music through about 27K of downstream equipment and it is not outclassed as a transport. | |
| I am considering a luxman 3600 tube amp as my first adventure into tube amplifiers? Perhaps I missed the price range, but these are wonderful. And yes, I owned them for years. | |
| Best 1,000 complete system for girlfriend ideas @tomcarr beat me to it. She's gone chief. | |
| Expensive Dac to keep or cheaper and change overtime Love the one you're with and dance with the one you brought. The problem with this hobby, or any hobby for that matter, is that real quantitative change requires large expenditure to move ahead in a meaningfully way. Changing one component us... | |
| Pass XP-32 vs. Luxman C-900u? I run the Luxman C-9000u preamp and it is wonderful, probably not 20K wonderful. Found one used and very clean. I was running the Weiss 501 DAC as a DAC obviously and a preamp. Tom at Big Ear suggested that as very talented as the Weiss preamp i... | |
| Best sounding FM table radio ever made... Well..... mine eventually played for the other team. Explained a lot. | |
| Best sounding FM table radio ever made... Proton 300 paired with powered slave 301 speaker hands down. Schotz circuitry FM that was amazing. Sometimes my medical travel contract kit with metal stands and DVD player as source. This rocked and produced a viable sound stage. Left it all ... | |
| Dual mono integrated amps @akg_ca I've own/owned a lot of Rega and they do great work. The Osiris probably is a beast and not only because of the dual-mono design. A lot more than that need be in order to make it roll. Rega knows its way around those things. The revi... | |
| Cheapest but good cables…. I've only run the Duelund 12ga single wire with cotton wrap. It sounds in my opinion great between a Luxman 509X and ATC 20 passives. Period. It is in this configuration for my system very open, with great attack and sound stage. Period. Your ... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? A Charles Bukowski reference! Happy Thursday! My favorite of his: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski Perhaps we see this more in our... | |
| Integrated amp recommendations for Harbeth 30.1 Run a Luxman 509X with ATC 20 passives (85db) sealed cabinet. This is a rather challenging monitor to drive properly. The Luxman runs them with aplomb. Full control and dynamics. Used price is around 7K. Best of luck on your journey. Cheers |