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| Solid State or Tube Preamp mated with Tube Monos? Don't mess with success. If you get a chance to put some other top line pre-amps in your system for a few days, do, but only for information. If something blows you away, then buy it, but otherwise just stay informed.SS vs. tubes makes no sense to... | |
| Music for Organ, Brass and Timpani on Sonoma The decay is over three-seconds. I was trying to figure the reverb time, but it's somewhere close to a second. It's so strong that it's amazing that it doesn't cloud the music.Dave | |
| PC for Rowland 312 and others? Guido, I'm using the Coincident Speaker Technology CST-PC power cord. It'll be at least two weeks before I have time to do a comparison, but maybe Soundings will loan me a Cardas to compare. (May is music month and I have seven gigs over the next ... | |
| Review: Jeff Rowland Continuum 500 Amplifier Yes, a real pleasure Rafael.Dave | |
| Review: Jeff Rowland Continuum 500 Amplifier Yes, if I fed it that way. Of course, the phono is unbalanced in, but that's not an issue because you ground to the chassis. Also, since it's an integrated, there's no pre-to-power IC. My universal disc player only has unbalanced out, so I'm just ... | |
| Dali Helicon 400 or Acoustic Zen Adagio? Well Mike60, the OP started out talking about the 400, but somewhere along the way we DID indeed start talking about both. I've never heard the 800, so I can't comment on it.Anyway, we certainly seem to agree on the strengths of the DALIs, their m... | |
| Review: Jeff Rowland Continuum 500 Amplifier Given the sonic delights of those old RCAs, you won't be too surprised that I just ordered about 15 SACDs with Reiner, Heifetz, Rubinstein, Monteux, etc. Layton really knew how to capture an orchestra.So you see, I'm not purely a vinyl hugger. Wit... | |
| choice of ref pre amps I'd suggest not getting hung up on tubes vs. SS and just listen to the top candidates, once you've narrowed down your list. At this level I think it's silly to think any one technology is superior to all others. IME, as you get higher and higher u... | |
| choice of ref pre amps Read the threads about the Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri. So far here on A'gon it's silenced an ARC Ref3 and a CJ Premier. Don't let its low price fool you. The chassis is solid billet aircraft grade billet aluminum with incredibly quiet and tra... | |
| Review: Jeff Rowland Continuum 500 Amplifier OMG, I got the bill for the phono cards and it blew my mind... $355!! They cost $200 less than the Pro-ject Tube Box that they replaced.I actually think the price is fair, because the little cars are about the size of the last joint of my little f... | |
| Why are all the Virtual Systems mega-assaults now? 05-09-08: Jmcgrogan2 said:"Just out of curiousity, what are your cutoffs for 'mega-systems', 'mid-systems' and 'low systems'? I would think that everyone would have a different answer for this."Just eyeballing and thinking of "mega" as $50k or mor... | |
| Who makes these? what is the value on them? Bphillips330 asked:"where do you think the best place to sell this equipment?"Take some really good pictures and auction them here on Audiogon. I may be wrong, but I think A'gon will get you the best price the quickest of any other site. Unless yo... | |
| Dali Helicon 300 with Sansui 9090DB = disaster?? Have a fun weekend. ;-) | |
| Sonus Extrema: Amplifier and room size I saw Rowland mentioned up the thread. There's pretty good agreement that you'll need more power with those in your room. If you think of Rowland, then consider the Continuum 500 integrated. It's transparent, crystal clear, dynamic and absolutely ... | |
| I walked into a dealer and got a shock.... Piedpiper said:" that you'd get better sound by going for quality rather than quantity...and MAC is not everyones cup of tea." among other things.You're the first to imply that the Mac isn't good quality and unless one of those "everyones" doesn't... |