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| One box solution Consider a pair of active standmounts with a preamp/DAC. Buchardt actives (A500) and then a compact but complete preamp, the ProJect Pre Box RS2, which has a Dual DAC, headphone amp and remote and a selectable tube preamp section. You could use an... | |
| Bookshelf speaker pairing with subwoofer Another option is the Vandersteen VLR-CT. | |
| Bookshelf speaker pairing with subwoofer I can also recommend the Studio Electric M4s, an excellent monitor-size standmount. | |
| From Audio Note AN/J-D to where? Avantgarde has a dealer in København. | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. This post has acquired an interesting and persistent energy. ASR is clearly neither trivial nor unpersuasive or why would so many try to denounce it? I occasionally go to ASR to read their reviews. Their contributors don't appear to be particular... | |
| From Audio Note AN/J-D to where? As you are in Europe and have an interest in horns, have you listened to Avantgarde's line of speakers? | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. petaluman: I am aware the small list of speakers I mentioned are "box" designs (stretching the definition for the Genelecs and the Dutch&Dutch) and am well aware of the several categories of speakers that are not of a box design. My comment w... | |
| Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc. Air Tight is very highly regarded, but probably gets more discussion on sites other than Audiogon, just as do other highly regarded tube amplifier brands, thinking Jadis, VAC, NAT, Nagra, Margules. Air Tight enjoys a reputation in tube amplificati... | |
| Somebody Please Make This Already... This seems to be a device more like a professional mixer than a preamp. | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. petaluman: Amir has explained his choice of speaker measurement, the Spinorama, because of its closeness to the measurement in an anechoic chamber. There are explanations giving details of the setup on the ASR site. He has posted his main system... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. People here get their pants in a bunch over ASR, its contributors and its methods. You would think they were doing something illicit. Their methods are explained and disclosed, their results are published, the results are open for comment. As that... | |
| Air Tight 300B Flame Out Red plate, from the sound of it. Is there a failure on your bias board? | |
| looking for bookshelves - Another usual boring speaker discussion The Alta Alyssa comes well reviewed. | |
| Replace tubes yearly? Yes, change those bad year-old tubes. Send them to me, I'll take care of them. | |
| What would you save in a fire? Clothes on my back, a couple of days worth of clothing. Any money, some small sentimental items, a watch, my laptop and phone. Peeps and pets. Old family photos. Everything else is replaceable. |