celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| Question I Have Never Seen Before? I shipped heavy Reference 3As (in boxes) by Greyhound once. Worked well and was cheaper than FED/EX or UPS. | |
| Integrated $500-1K for Classic Jazz Add to Mik971 suggestions, the Luxman 391 hybrid is quite sweet in the midrange (better than the 105 which is also decent). Jolida 1501 is also decent, particularly if you change out stock tube in preamp. | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable A rare thing indeed when a direct drive table will sound even with a belt drive. I and a friend both owned "Big Dog" Denon tables in the 80s. We were encouraged to take home a flimsy $300 NAD belt table just for grins. Within 10 seconds of listeni... | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Mary Stallings, "Live, From the Village Vangaurd". Etta James | |
| Looking for a small bedroom amp To my knowledge, Stello is a South Korean company, so it is disqualified from the U.S., Canadian, European manufacture. And you are looking for an amplifier only as you have a preamp. The Sophia is actually manufactured in China, although the comp... | |
| looking for interconnect under 200 dollars Signal Cable Silver Resolution is hard to beat in that price range. | |
| Looking for integrated w/ good dynamics kick Sugden. I've never owned an integrated with so much quickness, punch and still sweet delivery of vocals and acoustic piano. I own the A21SE. | |
| man do I miss Tower records and Cant' be giving this away, the bean counters must have conjured up this scenario already. I'm Sony/BMG and I want to eliminate all sharing of profits. If I can deliver my product without supporting manufacture of physical product, I don't need to ... | |
| Help with a total system upgrade. I've owned the 840C and it's decent. However, my Audio Sector DAC smoked the internal DACs of the unit. I would start there with decent digital cabling and interconnects. The VTL IT-85 is quite good and you will need to step up quite a bit to chal... | |
| $600 +/- Bookshelfs w/ Holographic Soundstage Ethan,Like your speaks, not your receiver. The DAC suggestion is right on and will help alot. There is a very good Assemblage 2.0 on A'gon right now for $220. Snag it!! A decent integrated would go a long ways. So would decent cables, dump the Mon... | |
| sleeper tube integrateds suggestion wanted You started in a very good place with ASL. I'm a VTL guy. The Stingray is very good, I've owned the Tiny Triodes and they were magical for their power 45/25wpc triode. My wife just didn't want to deal with separates. The larger VTLs are also quite... | |
| The "charactor" of pure Class A? Own the Sugden A21SE integrated. I've owned very good SS/tube amps over the years, a myriad of English, Japanese and American built. The characteristic that most impresses me with the Sugden is the lightening quickness. I was convinced that I had ... | |
| CD player to match Arcam A65+ Integrated Second the Arcam. I've run my Arcam Mini Solo using tape out (CD 73 inside) through my main system (Sugden A21SE and Coincident Triumph) just for grins and it astounded me with dynamics, air and decent resolution. | |
| can a tube-o-phile be happy with ss? Just purchased Sugden A21SE integrated. Have owned VTL Tiny Triodes monoblocks and custom built tube preamp. Must say that Sugden is damn nice and gets most things right. The Class A amplification is lightening quick. Vocals and acoustic piano are... | |
| 60 Cycle hum and HumX I read all of the discussion forums on this problem and finally purchased a $.78 3 prong to 2 prong converter to isolate the ground and diagnose. Diagnosed, I then disassembled the male portion of the Hubbell, disconnected and curled back the grou... |