david12
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| Buying decision time, or Time for a sanity check? I admit to buying without audition, which is insane, but if you buy almost exclusively 2nd hand, you often have no choice. I sometimes wonder if I had developed a relationship with a dealer and bought a coherent system of new components carefully ... | |
| Why doesn't Musical Fidelity offer balanced output It's partly a cultural thing I think. Not much British gear is balanced. It may be to do with us Brits using short interconnects and long speaker cables. I think you colonials tend to use much longer interconnects, where true balanced is of more v... | |
| List of top phono preamps best I used the Clearaudio reference, the immediate predecessor to the current Balanced reference and was quite disappointed, very polite, no real dynamics and quite expensive too, even 2nd hand. I have heard the balanced reference is a step up on the ... | |
| amp matches for cj premier 17ls I used mine with a number of amps and found I was happy either both tube and solid state. For the longest period I matched it with a pass labs Aleph 3. A good combination and the obvious one price wise, would be the CJ MV60, which sounded excellen... | |
| Speaker Lifespan My speakers have followed me throughout my life, with various members of the family. My son uses my Monitor Audio MA8's circa 1990. My mother uses the first speakers I ever bought, Leak Mini sandwich's circa 1965. Mind you, she is pretty deaf now ... | |
| Integrated Amp upgrade I agree about Marantz amps, but there are a number of great value integrated amps around, that I have heard. Currently, I would say the best value UK integrated amps are Creek and Musical Fidelity, pick your price point. In the US, Blue Circle loo... | |
| Integrated with switchable voltage I went the other way, buying in the US and importing to the UK. Conrad Johnson are switchable by changing the input connections on the transformer, from series to parallel I think. Spectral are switchable, in fact I know of someone importing a Spe... | |
| Have AZ Martrix Ref II's/ Compare to Silver Ref 2 I asked about cables some years ago on the Gon and was guided towards AZ. The advise then was to mix Matrix and Silver reference to get the best of both. I still use AZ, but all Silver reference with Hologram speaker cables and have no plans to ch... | |
| K&K any comments? I know what Phil is getting at in his description, but the K&K will remain in my system for the forseeable future. I have'nt heard the others, but the K&K clearly bested the Bel Canto to my ears. As always, it comes down to the sound you l... | |
| Grateful for Audiogon Amen to that brother, could'nt agree more. I have never had grief on the buying side and have had sage advise on the discussion forum. | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio, How Good Are They? Joe, I too would be interested in minimum power requirements. I am looking to match my 22 watt SET with new speakers and am leaning to Daedalus. I like AZ cables and would be interested in the speakers too, if they can be driven by 20 odd SET watt... | |
| Love it, or Hate it ? (wood trim) Neutral But I would say only the Italians can use it with an style(Unison Research for example). Some of the Chinese efforts are hideous(Consonance). I quite like some of the wooden knobs you colonials use though(blue circle). David Oxfordshire UK | |
| viva remot control You can't leave it on all the time, it will increase global warmimg all by itself. I think it takes about 30 to 40 minutes from start up. | |
| viva remot control I have a Viva Solista and the remote is a plastic Phillips one that controls the motorised volume only. | |
| List of top phono preamps best "You may want to check out the K&K Audio and Hagerman Trumpet phono stages as well. I know the Hagerman is available as balanced in your price range and I believe the K&K is as well". The K&K does have balanced and single ended output... |