celtic66
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| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? The conversation takes on a circuitous flavor. Some just want more bass; not necessarily distinct bass, but more of it, driving. Others want to hear the bowing differences between Eddie Gomez and Ray Brown. Yet others want both. And there is ... | |
| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? ATC SCM 40 passive towers come in at 6K. Quite nice. | |
| ATC buying advice As communicated in other postings, I tend to live now in the active world. I'm not a volume rocker listening, but I do really like the immediate attack and dynamics of active which I personally could not render with passive and some very goo... | |
| ATC buying advice Owner of both ATC 40A and ATC 50A. ATC 40A is wonderful. Lived with them for 3 years. ATC 50A is a whole 'nother beast....in all of the right ways. ATC 50A floor stander is more dynamic, throws a larger sound stage and of course deeper bass wi... | |
| Weiss 501 upgrade to 4ch Well, you know the Swiss. Four official languages in a country slightly larger than Maryland, so they don’t like simple. Postcard land with funny cheeses. Love my upgraded 501 and I’m the only one needing that satisfaction. Not looking, just e... | |
| Weiss 501 upgrade to 4ch Yes. I did upgrade. Not for the 4 channel part, but for the upgraded chip and upgrade of the analogue section. Installed by Tom at Big Ear Stereo who liked the upgrades from a technical point and correctly predicted improvement. I hear improve... | |
| Why would someone feel the need to comment unpleasant things on sale posts “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston S. Churchill | |
| Integrated Amplifier for Focal Sopra 3 Several used Luxman 509x integrated amps show up here. Good for you, puzzling as this is a really good amp. Now about $7,500 - 8,200 range. My wife's system runs ATC 20 passives with this amp and it drives them hard. Those speakers present a r... | |
| Speaker Recommendations https://atc.audio/hi-fi/loudspeakers/entry-series/scm11/ The ATC 11 monitor comes in new at $3,249 and would be rockin’ with your components and stated musical tastes. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? Love absolutes..... oft absolutely wrong, or at least misleading. @jeffreyw referred to the Mogami XLR, they show up here for sale regularly and are terrific for not much money. These things depend on several variables, but for not much coin y... | |
| Sugden Amps For clarification, the Sugden A25B one poster referred to, is an over 30 year old design and was Sugden’s entry level piece. Not really a fair reference to present day performance of the line. | |
| Sugden Amps I feel you. I've owned lots of high end tube gear.... enjoyed it all. But, for me, enough with the hassle and cost of tubes. I also converted to active speakers and the tubes were simply too slow for my appetite for dynamics and immediate atta... | |
| Revox Agora B Interesting find in the used market. Welcome to active. May not be for everyone, but for fans of it, it’s the real deal. I’ll never leave it for my reference. ATC 50A. Good on you. Enjoy. | |
| Speaker cable recommendations Duelund. Run that exact Luxman/ATC 20 combination and the Duelunds are brilliant. Cannot go wrong. Cheers | |
| Recommend me a DAC under 3k Weiss DAC204. I run the Weiss 501 and love it. The Weiss DAC204 is a stripped down no frills version. |