celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| Integrated amps on a 1,000 dollar budget Older ONIX 60 or 120 would sound great. You didn't mention which cables. IMHO Stereophile mostly suffers from cranial/rectal inversion. I would not place so much faith in their reviews and catagory placement. Owner reviews usurp those of rags. | |
| System solution The HK 930 is past it's prime by today's standards. I like an integrated such as the Rega Brio. Speakers such as Dynaudio 42. The Adcom 600 DAC is a real find, I've owned one and loved it. Good luck. | |
| Is this tube sound???? The previous response makes some good points. What is not addressed is the fairly poor production quality of most country albums and that Billy Joel was mostly on CBS which tend to be lifeless recordings unless otherwise.Mercifully, my wife is una... | |
| What is the benefit of a good transport? It's really just zeroes and ones, right? Better transports provide more stable platforms and better read capability. A very knowledgable friend with an EE degree who competently builds his own tube gear was not a believer of this until I sold him ... | |
| Old tube amp? Dynaco. There are always several completely restored and modified ST-70s for sale at very reasonable prices. Absolutely killer amps with these upgrades and for $700-900 a steal. | |
| The most important word of advise? Listen to everything in your home environment. | |
| Cheapest system you could ever stand to listen to I'm listening to it right now while on medical contract. NAD L-40 with Scandyna Micro Pod speakers. Very nice midrange, a little bass. Very listenable. | |
| Good beginner tube amp suggestions Not been a Jolida fan for years until recently, the 1301 for $350 retail is very decent and with upgrade tubes even better. | |
| Continuation Best Small budget speakers for girlfr Paradigm Atoms, PSB Alphas, Axiom M3Ts. | |
| What is a preamp? Dave,Optimally a preamp would only switch sources and control volume without addition or subtraction to the signal. However, by simple virtue of a signal passing though another device there will be degradation and timbre change. This is subjective... | |
| Ultra - smooth bookshelves $500 or under Mission M72, Ruark. | |
| Recommendations for best most efficient speakers Must agree with the misnomer reference. Tube gear when designed correctly carry a very nice punch and can drive well even inefficient loads. Why do you think they build 200 wpc monoblocks? Please get this out of your head.I took my VTL Tiny Triode... | |
| Good budget cables? I find Signal Cable tough to beat. Very decent sound for reasonable $s. Excellent construction. | |
| Top 5 recievers of the 70's and 80's ???? Hands down the Luxman 1120A. Sorry, but I've either owned or listened to much of what is talked about in the previous posts and for musicality, power, tuner section, phono section, it's Luxman. Still easily valid today against most equipment. | |
| Extreme low budget amp w phono & "reputation"? Know you said new. But used you can find an original Rega Brio integrated with phono for about $250-300. Great amp. |