coltrane1
Responses from coltrane1
| Anthem, Rotel or Sunfire? Get the Sunfire. You should be able to bridge two of the channels for extra power for your fronts and it's as good as it gets for good clean sound. Not necessary, but it's an extra bonus. The Sunfire amps run cool, and that's something to consider... | |
| Upgrade suggestions Or simply spend $500 on a mint used $1500 cartridge. I've done it here more than once. The last one I acquired, a Benz wood SH scoped out as a new cartridge would...the stylus showed zero wear. Your table is fine, now it's time to deck it out with... | |
| If you could only keep 5 Lp vinyl which ones Five copies of Kind of Blue. That's all the music anyone ever needs. | |
| Electrostat - M-L; Quad or Soundlab - reliable Ckoffend, nice analogy, and true. The short answer, don't be lazy...vacuum your speakers and cut down on maintenance by keeping them unplugged and covered from airborne particles when not in use. That's how I treat my CLSiiz's. | |
| PrimaLuna ProLogue Two - mixing tubes? So if I understand the question correctly, you're risking doing damage to an item with a used value around $1k rather than just buying a new set of tubes? Do the math and weigh the prospect of having to pay for a repair bill vs. buying a set of $1... | |
| First Watt to Pass Labs The First Watt amps ARE very speaker specific, and Pass or Reno Hifi one of their main distributors will be the first to tell you that. If you've low power requirements, i.e., Abby's, or a pair of monitors then sure one can hardly do better than a... | |
| Plinius M16 or Plinius M8???? Having owned both the 250 and the M16 I'd not match the 250 with the M16. My experience was the 16 is a "good" performer, just not a great performer. At the time I owned the 16 I had a BAT VK40 w/phono which, sonically speaking, blew the 16 out of... | |
| Forte Model 55 Amp I saw it at a great price on the used board too, but passed on it because I knew nothing about it. Having owned the model 4a, which was Class A, I knew it wouldn't be as good so I passed on it. It's sold now. | |
| JM Labs-Focal: Chorus 726S or 806V or Electra 906? I own Cobalt 820's and Focal 906's, in addition to ML CLSiiz's, and Cain & Cain Abby's. It's 906's hands down, but I've obtained best results driving them with 100 watts Class A via a Threshold T200. The Cobalts have been relegated to rear cha... | |
| How much does your system retail for? $40k retail. Investment cost of used gear $7500. Cost to me $0. How is that? OPM. | |
| Words From the Wise 1) Buy used2) Buy used3) Buy used4) Buy used5) Buy used | |
| Best Fully Automatic TT This is a no brainer for me. All you need is a JVC QLY5F quartz digital drive. They're commonly found. I've got several of these, in addition to having a traditional high end setup. Why several, because they're engineering marvels to those of us w... | |
| AV Receiver good enough for high end audio? Hifihvn,If we're going to paraphrase in a forum as common courtesy the least we can do is to quote another correctly.I've emphasized that A) I used the Ultimate in the context of a home theater setting B) that I found its performance good enough t... | |
| AV Receiver good enough for high end audio? "Now, it is not a 200 Dollar reciever as it was the topend av reciever for Marantz when it came out around 2000-1."As was the $5k retail Sunfire Ultimate Receiver when it was released, but that's meaningless to the naysayer's on this board who've ... | |
| AV Receiver good enough for high end audio? Hifihvn,You don't get it. The reference I made was not about your reference to politics, but instead to the same type of flawed intelligence that's created two needless wars. They're equal in that they're both mired in flawed intelligencia. Fact. ... |