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| How good is the Red Rose Spirit system? One "Chinese" speaker system that I respect a lot is Swan & Onix, off the www.av123.com site. The DESIGN I guess is done in conjunction with folks outside China. But they are beautiful looking. And I've owned Swan Diva's, and think they are gr... | |
| How good is the Red Rose Spirit system? It's very good IMO. It tends to sound better at higher volume, and is a bit too boring at low volume.Thee is a muddiness to the midbass that can add some life, but is definitely a coloration. Other than that, its flaws are mostly subtraction, not ... | |
| Philips 963 Sound Modifications Like Listener57 (how have you been?), I second Ric Shultz. His mod's to my Sony and Pioneer units have been awesome.I hear good things about Modwright (Dan Wright) as well.Do a search on AudioAsylum, probably lots of remarks there, for these gents... | |
| Best integrated w/ built in phono $1K-$1.5K used? Audio Analogue Puccini SE. Remote, 50wpc, EXTREMELY musical, and can be had for ~$1200 NEW.I compared the non-remote SE version a while back to several integrateds: YBA Integere Alpha DT, Bryston B-60, Aranov LS960i. Although I think the Aranov wa... | |
| Headphone Recommendation? Great responses all. The Senn 580's may be a budget champ for many a folks' tastes. And it gets even better with aftermarket replacement cords (Cardas, Stefan Audio Arts, Zu, Moon Audio, Clou, Jan Meier, etc etc).Regarding the "in your head" thing... | |
| Best Integrated for under $1000 A few years back, I compared several integrateds. Amongst them was the YBA Integre Alpha DT. It was very nice.However, to my ears, liked the Audio Analogue Puccini SE better. It was slightly lushly colored in the mid's, but it was OH so musical, m... | |
| Any Experience with Audio Valve? I have only heard great things as well.But as Trelja says, there have been reports of reliability issues. I have heard OF this for their amps, but mainly for their Headphone amp, one of which I own.Due more to shipping, but exacerbated by perhaps ... | |
| Headphone Recommendation? Suggestion: go to www.head-fi.org, or www.headwize.com, and peruse their chat forums.LOTS of great info, but warning: lots of opinions.A lot of what you might want is based on several questions, including music preference, need or not for TOTAL qu... | |
| Headphone Amp - Perreaux vs Musical Fidilety I used to own the Perraux, liked it but sold it due to getting a higher end OTL tube unit (Audio Valve RKV).The Perraux has plenty of power, you won't have to worry about driving Senn's high impedence. And your thought on bass is right, it's stron... | |
| Good CD Player for UR Unico I have gone the mod's route in recent years, and never been disappointed. Most recently, I used the Unico with a modified Pioneer DV-45A universal player, it si SUPERB (I ended up with about $1300 total invested, though; you can do many mods for l... | |
| Gram Phono Amps? `I used to own the Gram Amp 2, KILLER for the $$. Upgraded to tubes, but I actually miss this little pup a bit, very musical, didn't add much of anything, just detracted a bit.Hard to find used, so expect to pay retail. At that point, a used Phono... | |
| suggestions for used class A integrated under $2k Some more suggestions:- Unison Research Unico- BV Audio A300 (I -think- that's the right model, do a search on them/it)- The NEWER Pathos Classic One as mentioned by Marco (closer to $2k, maybe you can swing a deal; don't go for the older one, tho... | |
| I think I need a pair of headphones I suggest digging through head-fi.org as Pe3046 mentioned, or headwize.com as well. Depending on where you listen (IE, with your wife in the room or not), you may want closed headphones, to prevent more sound from escaping out. Perhaps not as good... | |
| Has anyone tried Tekna Sonics on floorstanders? I think a Symposium or similar shelf would be better than the Tekna sonics (though I have used them before, and they are good).www.audio-resolution.com makes a nice one; not as pretty as Symposium, but functionally excellent.My 2 cents.... | |
| ACK dac or Muse 2 / older dac to replace Sa8260 The whole design of the Ack DAC seems to be based on the simplicity and lack of over/upsampling, lack of digital filter concept used by 47 Labs and Audio Note.I have heard the 47 Lab's DAC (not the Shigaraki), and I have read a fair bit on the Ack... |