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| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help OMG, I hate stories where the wife gets the analog in a divorce. Does she at least listen to it or was that pure spite???Oh man, I feel your pain.BTW, I've never dealt with Galen, but I've heard nothing but positives when I lived in DFW.Dave | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Blindjim said:"unless the thought is to replace this new/now CDP later on. if that's the case, the OPpo 980H is a slam dunk, multi format player that yields great results in audio and can stick around as just a video player when the itch to move u... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Blindjim said:"There is nothing half baked about tailoring or tweaking a system to the tastes of it’s owner/builder. My experience has shown swapping out the OEM tubes is one way to go about it and the results from the doing of it have always been... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Blindjim said:"Dcstep said:'I don't see that variable sound and the opportunity to tube-roll is an advantage.'...The ability to interchange tubes, if one wishes to do so, is also an additional feature set, and thus, an advantage."No, more choices ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Pre with Pass Labs X350.5 or X600.5 Yeah, I think the key is not to count on a Capri to round off any sharp edges already in the system. Certain ICs and speaker cables can make a system sound hard edge and/or congested. The Capri will reveal such a weakness, rather than sweep it und... | |
| speakers for classical music I like to test with a variety of music, but complex classical is the hardest thing I've found for most systems. When you've all the strings going, the brass playing at it's most brilliant and the percussion pounding away, many systems lose track o... | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player It was clear to me when I read Mike's review here and at the Asylum that he has a long-term relationship with the principals of PD. I don't and I'll be adding to his review in a couple of weeks.Dave | |
| Jeff Rowland Pre with Pass Labs X350.5 or X600.5 The Capri is not "lean, bright and foward" if that helps, but neither is it "laid back".Think neutral, detailed, transparent, uncolored, dynamic and quick. Also think revealing. So, if your sources are good and stress free and you have good ICs an... | |
| speakers for classical music Ozawa's Rite (with the CSO no less -- no my friend I'm not seeking out CSO releases to torture you with) is well reviewed and out on XRCD.Dave | |
| Amp for Dali Hellicon 400 mk2 Whoa, Zear my friend, I have no agenda with the DALIs. When this thread started I thought the OP probably hadn't noticed the issue that I have with the 400s and so I didn't talk about the trouble I've seen with them handling deep bass (going into ... | |
| speakers for classical music I need to look for a new Rite of Spring, Guido. Sady my only one on hand is early Telarc by virtue of it being vinyl, it said encapsulates the worst of digititus for all eternity. (I think it was Atlanta in the late 1970s, not the greatest). No re... | |
| Amp for Dali Hellicon 400 mk2 Well, I've heard the very best Rowlands driving the DALIs and it didn't "fix" the problem. I'm told that the Bel Cantos have a little less bass, so that makes me doubtful.The guy jumping to the 800s after only 50-hours seems like a sign to me. I t... | |
| speakers for classical music Guido my friend, that's mostly pretty polite classical music, as easy to make sound good as jazz. I DO notice that, at least for the ones I know, they're all great performances. The Dvorak gets a little more challenging, but it's really pretty eas... | |
| speakers for classical music 105dB continuous at the listening seat is "crazy loud". You don't even get that sitting in the orchestra or even on a rock and roll bandstand (unless the drummer is an idiot -- yes, that happens). I played with one ridiculously loud big band drumm... | |
| Amp for Dali Hellicon 400 mk2 Dan001, you haven't mentioned a dealer yet. Did you buy the DALIs off A'gon or a dealer? If a dealer, then what amp was he using when you auditioned them? It might have been a smaller room than yours, but it would be a good starting point.I really... |