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| Upgrade speakers or front end?? Your front end is pretty high end so I would vote for speaker upgrade. | |
| Jeff Rowland Capri preamp The new double chassis rowland preamp is reported to cost $15k unfortunately.. | |
| Jeff Rowland Capri preamp The Rowland will be the smoothest Solid State amp you can buy without the hassel of tubes, and will provide the best dynamics and amazing soundstaging. Plus it is a truely balanced component which is noise free!! | |
| Which Power Conditioner is best at eliminating Hum Welcome to Conrad Johnson equipment... start lifting grounds and good luck... I used a PS 300 and another balanced conditioner and still the hum persisted..Like other people said , if you have a Cable connection disconnect that coax. If that doesn... | |
| Jeff Rowland Capri preamp I miss my Syngery IIi (one of those components you shouldn't have sold...).... Looks pretty amazing, plus Rowland released a another high end preamp at CES.The Display and volumn adjustments are amazing on Rowland Equipment!(The Placette Active ha... | |
| BAT VK-D5SE supertube CD player sound If Redbook is your main focus check out the Theta Gen VIII, I chose this over the inconsistent EMM labs on Redbook. Plus you can use the Gen VIII as a Preamp (same volumn control as my old Rowland Syngery IIi preamp) and eliminate your preamp as I... | |
| Sony NS-9100ES vs. Marantz 8260 comparison? The reviews are great about The Marantz but my friend bought it and sold it quickly as it was hugely disappointing... it wouldn't even play a couple of the SACD's he bought. I not a huge fan of Sony equipement but after hearing this marantz I woul... | |
| What size room for the Magnepan 20.1? The real trick with Mag's is they need to be at least 3 foot off the back wall, this builds the soundstage and is one of the biggest requirements as I have found.You will be sitting a little near field but the room is big enough... try flipping tw... | |
| ?OK to run 30 ft RCA from amp to preamp? Oregon: it's actually an art book next to a bunch of music books.Another side note I have lived in a number of apartments and now finally a house and had certain gear that was completely silent at one place and hissy at another place due to power ... | |
| Which Subwoofer Connection Should I Use? The cool thing is that with a surround receiver/processor you can choose when you want the subwoofer on and off... some will even let you change the crossover down for music. (aka 40hz for music, 80hz for movies..) | |
| ?OK to run 30 ft RCA from amp to preamp? RCA interconnects are suppose to be 50ohm, video and digital cables are 75ohm.Try lifting the cables off the floor on paper cups, and even consider spraying some antistatic spray on the cables and floor especially if you are running your heater an... | |
| 'Racks'. Important? Best bang for $$? I have owned Solid Steel, Plateau (cheap starter racks with MDF shelfs (double wide will warp depending on the design), Billy Bags Pro 33 (nice rack but still ended up using Seismic sinks, BDR, etc on it).I simplified my setup and bought a Sistrum... | |
| A Bright Pair of Watt Puppys Johnjbarlow: I use to own Transparent Reference XL speaker cables and the new reference MM versions are light years ahead in smoothness and definition. | |
| Which Subwoofer Connection Should I Use? 2) is better because the $1.50 crossover in the subwoofer is going to make your clean left/right channels muddy... keep your signal path as short and clean as possible. | |
| A Bright Pair of Watt Puppys Lee, I use the Marsh crossover that's built into the Wilson watch dog, I have used my Tact before with the second DAC card to control my setup but found that as a preamp (even modified) it was not clean enough. The Wilson manual is amazing for dis... |