celtic66
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| Vintage Luxman receivers blisshifi gave a nice description. I’ve owned several vintage pieces when still actually Luxman and one Alpine piece. Yes, they’ve mostly always been that good. My latest foray is the Luxman 509X monster and they do have a house sound. ... | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? Garage sale Harman Kardon 330C receiver for $15. I believe it was dual mono. Sweet little piece. Cleaned up volume pot and we were off. | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? ATC 50 active towers. I’m done. None of the dozens of speakers over 50 years of this hobby have come close. | |
| NY audio show 2022 Confirmation Bias A confirmation bias is cognitive bias that favors information that confirms your previously existing beliefs or biases.1 No one is completely immune to it. My favorite is the Autobahn myth. I've lived and worked years in Euro... | |
| Suggestion for $10K soup to nuts digital? I've only the Weiss 501 DAC to throw into the fray. This is a transformative piece in all ways. Hope that is targeted toward your question and goals. | |
| Silver Speaker Cables http://signalcable.com/silverresolutionspeaker.html These are very decent for not a tremendous amount of coin. I've run them for years. The other very good option is Duelund 12 gauge single wire you cut to length you need for your purposes. Th... | |
| Disservice: XLR interconnects Always believed that cables mattered. However....... I was convinced, mostly by others, that quality RCA was as good as XLR for shorter runs, the benefits of XLR only revealed by long runs. Purchased Mogami medium quality XLRs to run between AT... | |
| Good audio shops Stuttgart, Germany langla4 Must plead ignorance and state that Google maps failed. Bietigheim-Bissigen, Germany is exactly where he will reside. | |
| Good audio shops Stuttgart, Germany Sie haben dass Super gemacht! Vielen dank für das Information. You guys really came through. My friend and I may scout a stereo Anlage for his son who starts working north of Stuttgart this month. We visit soon. Again, great information. | |
| Good audio shops Stuttgart, Germany willgolf Thought that's where I was at. Best of ghdprentic Had apartment for a month Ludwigsberg only for travel purposes spoke-wheeling around Germany with no itinerary. Yes, Tuebingen is great. | |
| Flagship product to build around OP asked for flagship product to build around: Luxman 509X. 65 lbs. of rakish Japanese amplification iron. One can feed it anything of great quality for source and it will caress the signal passing it on completely intact. This integrated ... | |
| Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000 Ah, used Merlin TSM monitors. A classic, easy to drive, sealed cabinet so little room interaction, simple black studio with no fancy finish to mar. They work well with a myriad of amplifiers not considered audiophile. | |
| ATC SCM 50A active towers review Now at approximately 200 hrs. break-in time on both the ATC 50s and Weiss 501 DAC, everything has settled in nicely. The improvements while palpable are not monumental in scale. It was never cold, muffled and/or thin. Great recordings are super... | |
| Speaker Pairing for Sugden A21SE That is a very fast integrated and produces terrific attack. You're on the right track. Ran Merlin Black Magic and Cenya monitors with mine to very good affect. Found the Sugden particular about speaker cables and ended up with Decware Silver... | |
| Large room with low budget for speakers Hard to image these would not work. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SCM150ASL--atc-scm150asl-pro-15-inch-3-way-powered-studio-monitors |