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| You know you're an audiophile if-- You see a photo of a hot naked woman in front of some gear and you spend all your time trying to figure out what gear it is. | |
| What's your profession? Age? 56, Lawyer - Been at this about 10 years, wish I had started 40 years ago | |
| BAT or Pass With My Sophia 2s? I am very happy with my BAT VK-52SE tube preamp and BAT VK-600SE amp driving a pair of Wilson Sophia 2's. The bass is one tick less tight (but still very good) than when I had a SS preamp, but the midrange and treble is much better. Unfortunately,... | |
| Cardas or Wireworld for BAT system? The source is an Oppo BDP-83SE feeding a digital signal to a heavily modded Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC. | |
| Oppo 83 SE Sound in Absolute Terms ? I have a Perpetual Technologies P-3A that has been heavily modded by Empirical Audio. My Oppo BDP-83SE comes in a notch lower in performance for a third of the cost of the P-3A (as modded). | |
| BAT VK-52SE - Unity Gain/HT Bypass help It does not work when set to not fixed. The processor output is connected via XLR. A different preamp (different brand) with a HT bypass works perfectly when connected to the processor. I guess that tells me what I need to know. | |
| BAT VK-52SE - Unity Gain/HT Bypass help I tried 100 - no joy. | |
| anyone using Ayre amplification on any Wilson Sys Also, he liked the Ayre amps, but liked Lamm M1.2's better. | |
| anyone using Ayre amplification on any Wilson Sys If I recall correctly the owner in the link below was using Sophia II's at the time of his review.http://audioaficionado.org/ayre/137-ayre-kx-r-eighth-wonder-world-battle-preamps.html | |
| How much better will a preamp be over a processor I just added a Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE stereo solid state preamp to my system. The Wyred has a convenient HT bypass. It has made an immense improvement in two channel listening. At only $1999, if fits the budget constraints. | |
| Have you heard of EMOTIVA? I have the Emotiva DMC-1 pre/pro and the MPS-1 7 channel amp. They are a great value and are neutral sounding. But they are limited by their respective design compromises. I suspect the NAD had more high current capability and hence the smoother s... |