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| Upgrade for Thiel 1.6 - Or a waste of $$ A Soprano! Of course!Great point - almost makes me miss grad school. | |
| Upgrade for Thiel 1.6 - Or a waste of $$ Okay, just for fun I set the Pre/Pro to Stereo (from bypass) and told it the main speakers were small/60 and then small/80.The effect was less than wonderful. The Thiels lost detail and the soundstage crumbled. I did pick up a hefty amount of bloa... | |
| Upgrade for Thiel 1.6 - Or a waste of $$ A dumb question, but wouldn't "relieving" the Thiels of lower freqencies (that they were engineered to deliver) change the true sound and performance of the speakers? And not in a good way, either.I've used a bypass with lesser speakers but I was ... | |
| Upgrade for Thiel 1.6 - Or a waste of $$ Perose - You're on the right track. The RSX-1067 offers a full analog bypass mode (which I use) but I'm sure it's not the ideal path.I've read up on Arcam's AV8 @ AV9 but not the others you mentioned.Wish there was a good integrated that allowed f... | |
| NAD Quality? At least they stand behind their product. The warranty replacement for my 4-month old M55 Universal Disc Player is currently on backorder. | |
| Upgrade for Thiel 1.6 - Or a waste of $$ Good input from all of you...Bob - I've got a pair or REL R series subs already. They don't relieve the Thiels or the Rotel but they add plenty.Czbbcl - You almost nailed it....Maybe some of you thought, "Why isn't this guy talking about preamps a... | |
| DAC with Escient Fireball s & FLAC recordings Update: Escient E2 Fireball, Benchmark DAC and over 800gb of FLAC files sounds better than you'd think. Speed and ease of use is very hard to "put aside" in favor of an improvement that may or may not be present on each and every CD.If accurary or... | |
| McIntosh MS300 I'm still in tears from the day I realized how much more the MS300 costs (than it's kissing Escient cousin). Rich folks just crack me up. BUT as a professional copywriter I can tell you that some of that $$ went to cover the cost of hiring a non-t... | |
| NAD Quality? I've gone through three high-priced NAD products in the last 12 months. The quality has shifted - yeah that's the word for it. That said, I've had no problems taking my questions directly to the helpful NAD techies by phone or email. I've also had... | |
| What CD player will warm my Thiel/Classe systm? Are you talking CDs only or will you be dabbling into music servers and FLAC files? | |
| New R Series Rel Subs Stumbled across and "open box" R-205 at Magnolia. Actaully, that's a lie.It was well hidden in a dark corner of a listening room when it suddenly called out to me."I have no box....C'mon, take me with you....Say, did you know I'm only $849 + tax..... | |
| DAC with Escient Fireball s & FLAC recordings Okay, fair enough: My original post included everything but an actual question. Update: Now that Escient has finally created a simple way to access FLAC files from ANY networked device (besides another Escient product) I've added another 200GB of ... | |
| Review: California Audio Labs Alpha DA converter Dumb question: But it does not power up after you've:a. flipped the main switch (Rear) and then b. hit the Standby switch (Front - Left)c. waited approx 30 - 45 seconds for full power--ksr | |
| REL sub hook up I've got my pair of REL subs hooked to the second pair of speakers terminals on my 2-ch amp -- but the amp doesn't have a speaker selection switch.It shouldn't be a problem - however - engaging the 2nd pair of speaker outputs with the switch will ... | |
| New R Series Rel Subs What's better than one REL R Series....an second $799 open box REL R series.So now I've got the R-205 and R-305...they're sitting right next to each other.The R-205 has the same driver as the R-305 but 1/2 the power. And the cabinet is about 2 inc... |