celtic66
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| blues recommendation Doug McCleod, Lucky Peterson, Trudy Lynn | |
| compact bookshelf speaker for my system JM Lab Chorus 705 is much better than the Epos for same money and I like Epos, but...... | |
| Building new system with 1 thorny problem - HELP Jeffrey,Sorry. Your aunt. | |
| Building new system with 1 thorny problem - HELP Jeffrey,Whew!! It's your grandmother!! I've done this gig oft enough for the geriatric crowd and convenience rules over sound. Truly, a decent changer (Parasound, NAD 515) with a decent DAC (Assemblage, MSB) with Toslink will do quite nicely. A re... | |
| Amplifier For Martin Logan CLSIIZ? VTL run in triode will sound best. | |
| Newbie with $1500 and a wife pushing for Bose NAD L 70, Aperion speaks. Done. Simple, respectable. | |
| Best amps for full range electrostatic loudspeaker The OTL amps are a great suggestion IF you can afford them. Another are the larger VTL monoblocks. Run them in triode for best results and you'll need about 90wpc in that mode. | |
| HELP Best way to ship 160 lbs. speaker? The challenge here is the transporting from your house to the shipper. Two large guys (or girls) with a pickup might accomplish this. My pick would be Greyhound as they ship reasonably, often overnight. However, the receiving party must retrieve f... | |
| Best-front ported monitor speakers? ATC SCM 12s, British, more open and natural than Spendors, non-ported, difficult to drive properly (code: inefficient)yet probably the most detailed and natural cone speaker I've every heard. Benchmark of simplicity. | |
| Musical Used DAC for $500? Ric Schultz's early Milleniums. | |
| I could use some jazz mentoring. If you can log on to internet feed you can educate yourself very quickly with 2 very good jazz PBS stations. kplu.org Tacoma, WAkuaz.org Tucson, AZIn all my travels, these are two of the very best for traditional jazz. Graveyard shift of kplu turn... | |
| Tivoli Model 1 as a tuner? The Kloss PAL is DEFINITELY stereo signal at the headphone output jack. I run a pair of Beyer phones with it and it sound very good. Suprising imaging and dynamic enough. Also sounds somewhat better than the Tivoli Model One. | |
| any decent powered speakers? Swans $250/pair. | |
| Best Integrated for 400 dollars Used Rega Brio is quite musical, new NAD 3020 version (50wpc). | |
| Son of Ampzilla/Thoebe. Are they worth turning on? JW,These pieces have very high quality parts and were certainly in the sonic ballpark in their time. Search out Gasworks for the man who keeps the GAS flame burning. He has all the parts, repairs and will completely rebuild any of the models or ev... |