celtic66
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| few questions about classic 70's recievers Luxman made the best sounding late 70s receivers with great tuner sections and musical amplification. Good luck. | |
| Spica TC 50 Question s Something like Audioquest Type 6 or CV 6 will improve many things here including much better bass. I would also consider re-doing the crossover with better parts and rewiring internally. I've done a pair of TC-50s and the results were astounding. ... | |
| Best small speaker ATC SCM 7, ATC SCM 7, ATC SCM 7........... | |
| OKAY...your 10 or so favorite recordings please Ry Cooder "Jazz", electic, well recorded.Nightnoise "Shadow of Time", great music, great recording.Ella and Louis Again MFSL, do you have to ask?Sammy Davis Jr./ Laurindo Almeida, very open.Johnny Adams "The Verdict", astonishing vocal recording.J... | |
| Jazz/blues guitarist suggestions for SRV fan. Popa Chubby, Tab Benoit. | |
| Decent starter cables? Best buys are Audioquest Type 6 or Type 6 CV speaker cable, Wire World interconnect. | |
| Where does that hiss on the master come from? South Philly. No, really. Hissing occurs in the upper registers and usually means the recording has beeen mostly left alone allowing a more natural sound in that region. Vocals are more natural, symbals ring truer, an openess occurs surpressed by ... | |
| Jazz suggestions please Go online and listen to KPLU.org from Tacoma, WA and KUAZ from Tucson, AZ. Best and fastest education as they will play the artists you mentioned AND tell you which albums. | |
| what's my problem? Audioquest Type 6 or better, Wire World IC and you're on your way. | |
| Starting out Antique Sound Labs does very nice work for reasonable money. I believe they still offer an integrated with phono for under a $1,000 | |
| Recommend upgrade for NAD C541 I've spoken with a dealer handling both NAD and Arcam and she states the Arcam 62 for $100 is significantly better than the NAD. You can go from there. | |
| Yoiks, I'm amplifier confused. Here goes. Keep the CDP. Find an outboard DAC as the transport is very decent. Any of the tube amplifier choices are very good. Stick with Rogue if you like the preamp. I listen to a lot of acoustic jazz and run VTL TT-25s if that helps. Very good... | |
| Monitors $1,000 to $2,000? The ATC SCM 12s are outrageous and will best anything I've heard in that price range. Nearly as quick as electrostatics with great vocals. Please add to list. | |
| speaker stand question Mission 72s are identical as are many of the Mission speakers and I find not ill effects from placing on 24" stands. Of course expermintation is always best. | |
| ++++StereoPhile Class A components+++++ When you absolutely, positively have to know, then whenever possible go listen for yourself. There is some dreadful highly touted equipment out there. A friend is always reading reviews to me and convinced something new is the hottest. Sometimes y... |