djmika
Responses from djmika
| Macintosch 8950 or parasound a21 @jeffreyw No offense taken! Wasn't aimed my direction anyway! 🤣 I had 601s while we had an active showroom. There is something to be said for those big meters. I firmly believe there is more to great sound than just what you hear. The owners... | |
| Macintosch 8950 or parasound a21 @jeffreyw Shots fired! 🤣 There’s a lot to room treatment but I basically agree. It’s hard to effectively treat a bad room and also have it continue to look like a living space. Strategic absorption and diffusion can be effective but problems wi... | |
| Macintosch 8950 or parasound a21 @bobster50 I don't think you should let it discourage you. This is just how the world seem to be these days... It's hard to get a read on someone's tone on here but there also seem to be folks who will say something from behind a keyboard that ... | |
| Macintosch 8950 or parasound a21 @bobster50 To be fair to others, the room is pretty much half of what you hear. I've been in business for 20 years and in the industry for more than 30. I heard very nice gear sound bad and modest gear sound good, all depending on the room. It c... | |
| Macintosch 8950 or parasound a21 @bobster50 There is a pretty significant difference between the MA8950 which is a transformer coupled (Autoformer) design versus the MA252 and 352 which are direct coupled. The vast majority of tube amps are transformer coupled due to the fact t... | |
| Macintosch 8950 or parasound a21 I’m a dealer - McIntosh, Parasound and Klipsch, Sonus Faber, etc. I personally owned Forte III for about a year and during most of that period I drove them with a MA252. I honestly never loved the combo. It was nice to have a little EQ for the Fo... | |
| McIntosh with Klipsch Palladium P17B @kota 1 I say go for it. If you don't like it, you can always resell for minimal or no loss. That is an advantage of McIntosh, though I suppose a little less so compared to amplification. | |
| McIntosh with Klipsch Palladium P17B Kota - Honestly, I don't have much experience with Play-Fi. As an integrator by trade, we tend to take a little different approach for whole-house music systems. As for Mac, I've never NOT liked anything digital they've done. Their DACs have alw... | |
| McIntosh with Klipsch Palladium P17B I'm a McIntosh dealer and have heard a lot of their gear over the ten years or so I have been. I don't think there's a right answer in terms of tubes vs. SS. And in my experience, as you move through the McIntosh line, their gear can sound prett... | |
| Interconnects and speaker cables Disclaimer - I’m a Custom Integrator and dealer for a handful of Hi-Fi lines. I have loved the Audience line of cables for 20 years. Much longer than I have been a dealer. The first Audience cables I bought were original Au24 which I bought used ... | |
| Opinions on the ; Rosso Fiorentino Sienna or Volterra II Speakers I'll chime in as a dealer, not new to the industry but new to RF. I have a pair of Elba 2 and they were somewhat of a revelation for me. I've heard so many speakers over so many years, many from very well-known manufacturers. Like many, my interes... | |
| McIntosh I am a McIntosh dealer. They do have their challenges right now. We get a weekly list from our reps with updates and usually there is more on the back order list than than limited or in-stock. This has been the case for the past year. But I've per... | |
| New McIntosh DA2 DAC Full disclosure, I am a McIntosh dealer. Now that that's out of the way; I did just install a C53 in to my system yesterday. It replaces a C48 which obviously has similar levels of functionality. I've generally enjoyed the performance of the C48 a... | |
| A little confused on how to properly integrate my sub Okay, I didn't read all of the responses and someone may have caught this already. First, I personally think you're going the wrong way by selling the MF integrated in favor of the Outlaw. Especially considering how REL subs are intended to integr... | |
| Best of the best Integrated amps in 2018 I don't think anyone mentioned Hegel here. The H360 is great but they have the H590 in the pipeline for fall. At 300WPC it should drive just about any speaker without trouble and sound fantastic doing it. I believe it will sell for $12K which is a... |