celtic66
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| It's time for a good CD player. Arcam 73 as a transport with an external DAC would work great. Channel Islands, Scott Nixon, MyDac, Arcam and more are all good choices. You will be surprised at the improvement. BTW, you should try some vibration control under the Arcam, it will ... | |
| Room treatments Brianpack,Cannot answer your question, but have extensive experience with controlling room resonances with various room treatments such as Michael Green, Echo Busters and Eighth Nerve. These all helped as advertised, however....... and it is a BIG... | |
| What three shelf stand should I purchase? Recently purchased Quadraspire and was taken back by how much better it is than my Target stand. Would have never believed how much more stable the soundstage became and how much more controlled the bass is. It was truly an epiphany. | |
| "best" 3.5mm to RCA cable The MAC or Signal Cable are difficult to beat. I own both, but not in 2.0M length. No, I've not done an A/B comparison as source is not that impressive (Mac Pro Book and iRiver CD player), but they both sound substantially better than Rat Shack. | |
| Replacing Audio Physic Virgo2 Love your current speakers, probably for all of the same reasons you purchased them. Detail and involving.I currently run Penaudio Cenya monitors which replaced Merlin MME monitors. I've also owned LS3/5A monitors and several other British monitor... | |
| Downgrading Powered monitors. There is a plethora of them now of surprisingly good quality. Audioengine, Vanatoo, Aktimate plus others. Of course you can go up the ladder to powered Dynaudio, Neuman, Focal, PMC and others. Regarding your environment one shoul... | |
| EL 34 Amp Recommendations The Dynaco ST-70 amps rebuilt by Vincent in Lewiston, Idaho would work quite well and you would have a cool looking amp also. VTL and Manley amps are also great as they do several things correctly. They have great transformers, run their tubes con... | |
| Asking for guidance on my first hi-fi system... Audio Refinement integrated. Smoother and more reliable than NAD. | |
| Can't drive Proac Studio 110 with low budget amps Jmcgrogan2 is correct about the mid-fi receiver. Not enough current. Dynaudios are oft difficult to drive well. A Rega Brio R (50wpc) will drive them decently or a Maia lll will really kick them around. They also really like tubes such as the Manl... | |
| What other speakers are like/similar to Ruarks? I love the Ruarks also. Have you tried the ATC or Acoustic Energy monitors? You really didn't state monitors or floorstanders. | |
| Michael Greene M5 monitors' adjustment Justlisten,Thanks for response and info. Doug | |
| Help w/Integrated Amp for JBL L112 Speakers Audio Refinement Complete is in that price range and will sound better than your options of integrated amps. A touch on the warmer side with enough guts to drive them well. I cannot speak about the Classe setup, but then that is a seaparate compon... | |
| Sealed vs. Ported Speakers What Brownsfan said. I've owned a plethora of monitors and sealed was the deal. Now I have some Penaudio Cenya monitors and they are ported and sweet. Nicer than my Merlin MME monitors. | |
| Is an Apt preamp a good preamp for my setup. I owned one and found it lifeless. Yes, ahead of its time in the 1980s, but much has changed since then. And perhaps, mine was out of spec. I would look elsewhere such as Audio Refinement or any other very decent preamps. | |
| 2nd system Similar acoustic signature, but much better resolution and more solid bass can be found with the Audio Refinement Complete integrated amp. Should find one for around $500 |