celtic66
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| system interconnect thoughts Chris,Hard to beat Signal Cable stuff for this price range. I've owned/own all Kimber and Signal Cable pieces mentioned above. Kimber is very good, Signal I think is more open. Not a fan of MF. Not bad, just not great either. Look into some true E... | |
| any thoughts on Antique Sound Labs amps These are solid pieces for the most part with well thought out topography and conservatively driven tubes unlike some builders who drive them too hard for dynamics. The smaller amps usually sound better than the larger one. Good luck. | |
| suggest an integrated tube amp for me You are correct, should have kept the Rogue. I've ran them well with my now sold VTL Tiny Triodes at 45wpc. It was magic. Sold mine for $1000, so another set might show up and then a preamp to go. | |
| English Speakers I've owned Rogers, understand your pain. Would highly recommend the Spendor 3/5s as they are very musical, have that smooth midrange, carry a bit more dynamics. | |
| CDP Clock Replacement - did you upgrade yours ??? Richard Kern installed an Audiocom Superclock 3 in my Audio Refinement player and the improvement was astonishing. Loaned it to a higher end shop for comparison and it competed with their stock players up to about $2500. I use it as a transport wi... | |
| If I add a power amp to my NAD receiver.... Before adding a power amp, I would replace the ugly pins that come standard with NAD bridging the preamp out/power in with good quality jumpers. This will improve the unit substantially and you may find no need for a new power amp. | |
| Mini office system? Newegg.com has Swans. | |
| Best sounding for MMG These love high damping factor to control the panels properly. Most amplification gets eaten alive with these because of improper control. Exposure, Cyrus, Rega and Sugden will provide this. The best I've heard these sound with SS is the old Hafle... | |
| Repair Parts for Nakamichi CD Player2 Try Audio Specialties in Portland, OR. 503.257.3206. | |
| Mini office system? Onkyo CS 210 paired with your BICs or better yet some Paradigm Atoms. Onkyo is about $170 on the internet. | |
| nakamichi 480 Be happy. Owned this model for years. Had it internally tweaked for Maxell II for recording/playback and ran it without Dolby for better highend extension and no phase shift. If the tapes you have are mostly of a particular formula you might do th... | |
| 2.1 Speaker suggestions In wall. | |
| nad 3020 vs advent 300 The 3020 is the clear choice and yes I know both well. Clean up the pots AND bridge the pre-out/amp-in with decent connectors to upgrade the sound tremendously. If you really get ambitious you can bypass the treble/bass pots to open it up. It will... | |
| Large room but not large budget-suggestions please I like the Cambridge, a power cord upgrade maybe. The Totems are great but will not carry a large room. Vandys will. Or look for some higher efficiency speakers in the 92-94db range with at least 6" woofer should do the trick.How you do the room a... | |
| Which Jazz Albums are similar to Kind of Blue Don't know if you are enamored by Miles' style of play or genre of jazz. As far as style, check out Howard McGhee, Clifford Brown and Chet Baker for similar styles of playing with a coolness. As far as era of music it is endless with some of the t... |