dfhaleycko
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| Green Mountain Calypso Speakers vs Montana EPS -2 I've only heard the Green Mountain Calypso's. But I spent a good two days listening to them with all kinds of music. Amps were 70wpc tube monoblocks, so similar in power to your 2275 (which is a very nice sounding amp!).Anyway, my listening notes ... | |
| What amp / int. amp would you still like to try? I'm a big believer in amp/speaker synergies. So it's fairly useless to talk about amps in a vacuum without considering what they're driving.For instance, the Atma-Sphere S-30 is said to be a heavenly match with Audiokinesis speakers. So maybe a sp... | |
| rodrigo Y gabriela 11:11 Good call! Some great driving grooves there.Saw 'em live once, in Europe. I have the original Rodrigo y Gabriela CD and it is a great system workout! Dynamic and fun! | |
| McIntosh MC2002 And MA6100 The preamp in the MA6100 is adequate, but hardly world-class. I have had one of these for 20+ years, so I know it well. For line source it's fine, but the phono stage is somewhat weak and the bass tends to be a bit woolly. If you have no need for ... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Between 1992 and 2007 I spent an average of $5-8,000 per year on this hobby, er merry-go-round. Looking back over those expenditures, I can certainly identify a few that returned much better value than others. But at the end of 2007 I decided to "... | |
| Please Help Me, I'm Lost ETbaby has the right idea, I think. Maggies turn out to be excellent RF receivers, and are happy to feed that signal back to the amp. Theory has it that the signal heterodynes with the audio signal and generates high frequency harmonics which some... | |
| Need Help on HeadPhone AMP Another very good sounding headphone amp is the Mapletree Audio Designs, of which there are several variants. They are an especially synergistic match with the Grado RS-1's, but sound good with various Sennheisers and the AKG 701's in my experienc... | |
| Inexpensive USB DAC Well, I guess I didn't read the article all that carefully (I tend to treat S-pile as bathroom reading).I checked the article again, based on your comment. The only comparison to the V-Dac was the statement that the ASUS board uses the same Burr-B... | |
| Maple Shade Recordings? I find myself agreeing with others here. I bought a dozen CD's over a couple of years. A couple of years later, not a single one remains on my playlist. I would expect to have one or two favorites, but never happened.More fun to find LP treasures ... | |
| Inexpensive USB DAC The current (January 2010) issue of Stereo-pile positively reviews the new ASUS Xonar Essence soundcard, and specifically prefer it to the Musical Fidelity DAC. It has been designed from an audiophile perspective, and in particular has shielding/g... | |
| Quad or Magnepan? At least as important as the speaker choice is your choice of amp to accompany the speakers. Maggies really do like a lot more watts, which gets expensive if you like tubed amps. Quads will flourish on moderate power tube amps. As said above, Magg... | |
| Questions on switching to tube amplification Rogue amps and PrimaLuna are also in your price range, and worth auditioning. I own a Modulus pre and used it for 10 years with a Classe CA-200 amp with Vandersteen 3 speakers. I would think Your system already leans to a fairly nice, laid-back so... | |
| When do you used and A/D converter and how.... most of your garage bands these days use digital recorders to capture their music. Typically the mic feed (which is analog) goes into an interface box where the A/D conversion takes place. Check out the professional musician sites and you'll find ... | |
| Benefit of a DAC for a good red book cd player I'm with your friends. Don't bother. Enjoy your Apollo! IIRC that was a well-respected unit, so it may be hard to do better without spending a lot on a DAC. Two big issues are jitter (in the Rega as a transport, and in the ability of the new DAC t... | |
| Pre-Amp Match The Modwright is very neutral sounding and NOT at all lush. It is a very honest sound, but a bit lean for my taste, and would be a real shocker for you after the C-J.Let me recommend another choice too. For a slightly richer palette you might cons... |