dfhaleycko
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| What are your suggestions for a pre-amp? Another good-sounding alternative is the Audible Illusions Modulus series of preamps. Often seen here from $700-900 or so. I agree that tubes add that certain something. If you like vinyl, the John Curl phono board (an option in later Modulus pre'... | |
| Preamp w/mm Phono Stage for under $300? The phono requirement makes this tough. Certainly, you're best off buying used to keep you whole when you re-sell to upgrade.My first thought was to look for an original Audible Illusions Modulus 3 (not the 3a), but even those go for $500+. I've h... | |
| Speakers and Tube Amps What he said...Speakers that I've heard that sound nice with tubes include Devore, Klipsch Cornwalls (available cheap, but usually need TLC), and Coincident speakers. There are lots out there, but not many that are full-range.Getting a great match... | |
| Speakers that can be placed against the wall? If you can find some North Creek Eska's or Kitty Kats, they were specifically designed for close-to-wall placement. They use fantastic drivers and over-built crossovers with incredible parts quality (ScanSpeak tweeters/Vifa woofers, etc.)The Cornw... | |
| Suggestions on a Musical, Full Range Speaker Check out Green Mountain Calypso's. Best I've ever heard for that kind of room, and fairly friendly to tubes too. Time aligned like the Vandersteens mentioned above, but also built to a higher standard with a high level mathematical modeling invol... | |
| What would you upgrade in this system? Your room is nearly a cube. That's going to give you some huge bass modes and holes. I'd spend a lot of time moving the speakers around (get rid of everything else in the room for a weekend). I had a room like that and ended up with the speakers f... | |
| Good Analog EQ The only analog one I know is the Rives PARC unit, which is fairly transparent. It sure beats putting a digital unit in the chain and suffering an additional a/d and d/a conversion.Rarely seen on Audiogon though.HTH,Frank | |
| Personal Preamp Evolution. Evolution implies progress, which I'm not sure is the case. Returning to some vintage roots finding some surprises. Here's the sequence (since 1968), with some overlapMcIntosh C20 (20 years)Audible Illusions Modulus 3 (10 years)Creek OBH-10 passiv... | |
| Amp upgrade for 2 Ce Sig II I'm with Tvad on this one. McCormack amps are a bit more "lively" and have good synergies with Vandersteens, which tend to be a bit laid-back, though very musical.I've run a set of Vandersteen 3's with a Classe CA-201 for a while (years). Recently... | |
| magnepan 1.6 subwoofer recomendations Check out the system manufactured by Audiokinesis and the posts by Duke over on the Maggie forum at AA. He posts here as well (nice guy... I talked to him for about an hour on the phone one day about planar speaker choices).A number of Maggie 1.6 ... | |
| Where next after Eico HF-12's? If you're happy with the Eico's, why do you feel the need to upgrade? What do you think you're not getting? That will help you determine where to go next. Frankly, if it's musical and you love it, then spend your money on software, go to more conc... | |
| VINYL - 2,200 LP's to CD or Hard Drive - HELP I make this out to be about 5 months of work, 12 hours per day, to do the transcription, tagging, and record manipulation;Figure 45 minutes x 2,200 = 99,000 minutes = 1650 hours = 137.5 12/hour days, with no days off or weekends. If you pay a coll... | |
| solder-Eutechnic,Wonder,WBT?? WBT is a pleasure to work with. I've tried the Cardas quad eutectic (lead-free) and it's a PITA. Of course WBT is especially nice if you have a temp-controlled soldering station :-)HTH | |
| I just don't get PC Audio It doesn't have to be super-expensive to get world-class sound. Have a look at the Modwright Truth Transporter as an example. Even the base Logitech Transporter is a pretty good-sounding unit. It employs the AK4396 so-called "Miracle DAC" which is... | |
| State of the art speakers from yesteryear. KLH-9's if you could find any that still work |