celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| bookshelf speakers No budget, no ancillary equipment, no musical styles given....... Some very general rules for bookshelf speakers actually placed iin a bookshelf:sealed cabinets are good, no ports to deal withif the speaker is ported then of course they must be fr... | |
| Repair or replace my Linear tracking of that vintage had a nasty habit of wagging back and forth which actually destroyed the groove walls of the record. Studer Revox used a completely different system of linear tracking which did not wag and cause this irrepairable e... | |
| Cheap and chearful integrated for Epos ES14 The Audio Refinement is a great recommendation, however..... I think these deserve better and a vintage Luxman integrated would voice better. An L-450 or better would make these sing. They like the solid and full bass control of the Luxman. | |
| Atlas Mavros 75 ohm digital This helps. Any particular reason for the 1.5m? Thanks. | |
| Rack for System and CD player recommendations Interesting. The front end, Cambridge CD30, is completely disproportionate to the balance of the system. I mean really, K-Mart tires on the Porche. A Rega Apollo-R coupled with a Micromega MyDac would place this all in serious territory.The rack, ... | |
| Change from full range electrostat speakers advice Merlin TSM monitors. These speak to the totality of your summation. Very well detailed, lacking the pinpoint sweet spot that belabors many electrostatics and yet quickness that challenges that of the well designed panel. They will work well with w... | |
| Class A Watts I own a Sugden A21SE and at only 30 wpc Class A it does not play louder than other well designed 30 wpc gear, but it is definitely quicker and approaches that oft elusive tube sound. The characteristics of speed, solid bass response and openness o... | |
| New rack or power conditioner Quadraspire Sunoko vent. I've never experienced such a dramatic improvement from a single ancillary change in 40 years of this sometimes ridiculous hobby. Corrected most of my perceived room acoustics problems. Simply stunning. System on the rack ... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence Thank you for the responses. Ciao | |
| New Rega Apollo-R This is a very solid performer and a fantastic transport. I'm running mine with a Decware DAC, Manley electronics and Penaudio Cenya monitors. As a transport, a giant killer. | |
| Sugden amp to pair Harbeth SHL5? Not too thick? I run the Sugden A21SE and it will not thicken the sound. Of oourse I cannot speak about your DIY tube amps. One would presume the Sugden would be much quicker with extended high end. But then I also run Manley tube amps and they are very quick in... | |
| Rega Apollo - DAC / Player to beat it I read your post carefully and am still recommending the new Rega Apollo R as transport and a decent DAC which could be one of many. The transport on the new Rega is simply terribly good. I'm running one with a Decware DAC through all Manley elect... | |
| What's going on with Mobile Fidelity? Go get the K2 HD "Kind of Blue". I can't imagine the MoFi could be better. It is simply "Live". | |
| old newbie I've owned the Linn and it's decent, but not decent enough for the Vandies. Integrated/cd player is the route. Used, an Audio Refinement Compete integrated paired with a Rega Apollo R would very much suprise you. Later add an external DAC as the R... | |
| KIND OF BLUE K2HD CD is really quite good and noticably better than any other version I've heard. The bite of the saxes is astonishing and all around very musical. I've not heard any SACD version.System:Rega R Apollo, Decware DAC, MAC Mystic cabling, AQ Power ... |