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| Marantz SR7005 OR Pioneer ELite SC-35 I don't think I would get either. Don't like Class D and Marantz in that price range is consumer grade and easilly bested. I do think you need to increase your budget a little but the increase in actual performance that you will get will easilly b... | |
| Best preamp for 2k-3k I agree with both the Calypso (there was one here recently and may still be) and the Shindo (you make no mentioned of balanced/single ended or tape loop requirements). I would absolutely add the Supratek Chardonney. | |
| Differences Between Esoteric SACD Players I have the X03se and it's the way to go. You see a few here for +\- 4,000. | |
| cd recorder options I absolutely love my Alesis Masterlink. It is an incredible tool and the quality of recordings are supurb. I recorded some vinyl the other ay and just played the recordings back on my music server and I just can't believe how good it sounded. Very... | |
| Vinyl cleanliness Almost all of the new albums I buy (acoustic sounds reissues, etc) have been absolutely dead quiet. The old stuff that I originally bought and took care of (over 40 years) - no ticks and pops (or very few) but some surface noise. Others given to m... | |
| Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo Thanks, Ozzy. I have the CI Power supply though may consider the Boulder if I send it in for the mod. I really don't want to be without the unit as I enjoy it so much. I did pull the plug on the 192k upsampler/clock, though. (Esoteric G25U). I fig... | |
| Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo Ozzy, assume you had the digital mod done? How long did it take? | |
| Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo Thinking of upgrading my Monarchy Combo to the Esoteric G25U to get a 192k signal into the Berkeley Alpha DAC. Anyone have any thoughts? Worth $1,100? | |
| Considering analog...but nervous Racquel, you are so spot on with your posts, it's scary. Scary good. Thanks for being here. | |
| Best Hobby related purchase of 2010 Mine was a vpi periphery ring. Hello darkness, my old friend. | |
| Should I use pre-amp I run both my digital sources (Berkeley DAC and Esoteric X03SE) directly into my amps (after bypasing the preamp over a year ago) and have NEVER looked back. The improvement was staggering. I cannot possibly see how adding a preamp and cables betw... | |
| Firewire to s/pdif MAudio -$200. Works and sounds great. | |
| Is 11' distance from projector screen too close? Don't get an LG. Pretty bad all around. | |
| HDMI Switchers The Key Difital is excellent. No signal loss. I gave it to a buddy and he loves it. I was using a DVDO iScan in its place (bypassing upscaler) and also worked great. | |
| Sanders Magtech Amp or Bryston 4B-SST2 4 Mags 3.6 The maggies aren't electrostatics. I have sanders stats, amps and preamplifier and it is the best sound I could hope for, for the money I spent. If you have to have the maggies, I would jump on the magtech. Maggies do not play quietly. They need j... |