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| Magnepan dealers The policy referenced by the OP is being rolled out only in some areas:Boise, IdahoToledo, OhioSuffolk, VirginiaSt. Louis, MissouriElsewhere, the status quo remains. Most "regular"dealers don't stock Maggies due to the plethora of finish options,... | |
| Jazz vocalists which may not be as real as we think/imagine I gotta say Jennifer Warnes’ The Hunter has some very fine music, with recorded sound to match. Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris’ Tucson Sessions also, much less processed than most of their other records. And of course there’s Norah Jones, for... | |
| Cheap/expensive or expensive/cheap? IME, cables matter, but only so much, and always relative to their system context an environment. If actual musical verisimilitude is the goal, then one needs speakers of a size capable of pressurizing the room to give bass instruments their prope... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Have you done a thorough room treatment? If not, spend on that, then get Magnepan 30.7s or Sonus Faber Il Cremonese for well below your price ceiling. Or get some new Focals, which are also great. MBL can be stupendous. | |
| Why hasn’t B&W ever entered the ultra hi-end for speakers? B&W is to speakers what Mercedes is to cars...unfailingly well engineered, respected by all the best people...a safe choice and pretty good performers to boot. The utterly pedestrian 600 series gets raves in the UK, the 700s are sold by specia... | |
| Beryllium Tweets Of the above I am familiar with the Revel and Focal Be models, and for my taste the Focal Kanta 2 gives me a more musical experience than the Revel F228 Be. I judge these things with classical, folk, small ensemble jazz, singer-songwriter...no he... | |
| to my ears digital audio does not sound natural? something is wrong! Around 1985 my house full of audio geeks set up a live vs. digitally processed test using a Nakamichi ADC (tweaked Sony PCM-F1) in the signal path, an ABX comparator, and a rotating listening panel. The speakers were Maggie MG-3 Ribbon dipoles, a... | |
| is this the greatest live band of all time? I heard Santana at the Pavillion in Flushing Meadows the weekend before Woosdstock (1969). No one there had ever heard of them (headliner was Savoy Brown BB, 2nd act was Charlie Musselwhite's BB), but Santana opened, and tore the roof off the pla... | |
| Help Upgrading My Phono Chain For $3K you can get a Well Tempered Simplex and a Dynavector 20Xv2either HO or LO to use w/your SUT. Other carts...Hana SL or SH, Benz ACE. Rega has a new one, Ania Pro, for $1095...you could start with that on your P3 and see if that gets you w... | |
| I am looking for help selecting an amplifier to match my Revel F228Be speakers. Used Ayre AX 5 Twenty plus streamer DAC or VX 5 Twenty plus a streamer preamp DAC. Ayre power is perfect for the Revels. The MA9000 is also good, but less resolving. | |
| Monster Regret!! Whatever you may think of Noel Lee’s engineering and/or or marketing genius, He did delegate the Monster Power design project to Richard Marsh...author of the 1980 Audio Magazine article that announced to the world that the design and composition ... | |
| Anyone remember the lateral tracking Bang and Olufsen record player from the 80’s?? In 1971 I got a Rabco ST4 belt drive with a cheaper version of Henry Rabinow’s LT tonearm. Clamshell dustcover, sprung motorboard, with an ADC XLM. That was used with a Quad 33 and PAS3 for a few years until it developed a worn out nylon guide tha... | |
| Budget streaming amp The R-N303 is entry level. No balance control, power spec is a joke, etc. Look at the R-N602...much beefier, full features (including variable loudness, balance, B&T) and uses their ToPART concept. Sells for $599.95. The $749.95 R-N803 adds... | |
| phono/preamp analog front end He doesn’t refer to the actual stiffness of the cantilever, but to the electromagnetic damping effect the loading applies, which affects the compliance of the moving system, I think... | |
| Are these fake? I bought a "Zero Zone" preamp through Tubes4Hifi that is marketed on ebay and Ali Express as a "CJ clone" circuit. Maybe fake CJ, but a real enough preamp, and I like it...quiet, musical, ample gain.https://www.ebay.com/itm/Manual-PRT-05A-12AX7-T... |