duckdownman
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| Audio cables ,and power cords the most forgotton- part of an Audio system. I completely disagree and I'm actually you feel this way being in the hobby over 35 years. I don't disagree that more expensive cables CAN sound better than cheaper ones but there is no line in the sand that means the higher the price, the better ... | |
| Switching to solid state amp? I was going toward a similar path as you, although a bit in the opposite direction. I've always had brystons and spectrons but was wanting a little more musiciality so after a ton of listening I ended up mating with a hybrid tube pre (AR LS-17se) ... | |
| Thinking of replacing my Bat spaceheater with class D, real world thoughts please I actually went through something similar to you, although in a different step. Like class A, A/B or tube not all are created equal. I think once you get to top quality gear it comes down to a matter of preference. I was bryston fan for years and ... | |
| Recording quality... @Trutopia2With all do respect - Evidently you haven't listened to MFSL recording remaster on a decent stereo lately ( Maybe a try a DAC ) ! Have fun listening to your tape hiss and poor recording equipment of the past. MFSL is not the end all, be ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I’ve had many different cables and get absolutely say there was a difference. It wasn’t as simply as low vs high price though. Some mega expensive cables sounded horrible and some cheap ones sounded great. Factor that in with system symmetry and t... | |
| Vandersteen I have the 3A sigs for about a year now and could not be more impressed. I've attended many demo's prior to the purchase and heard a lot of great, and not so great speakers. The one thing that sucked me into Vandersteen was that I just couldn't st... | |
| Spectron musician ii hybrid monoblock question Good info, thanks very much for your knowledge. I'll defiantly give ARC a call and pose that question to them | |
| Spectron musician ii hybrid monoblock question Sorry I hit send too sooni thought the thinking was the Amps input imp should be 10x higher than the preamps output (I could be wrong). Or maybe I am not considering the fact that I'm using the amps in mono? Would the amps input impedance be diffe... | |
| Spectron musician ii hybrid monoblock question For the ARC:INPUT IMPEDANCE120K ohms Balanced, 60K ohms SE. OUTPUT IMPEDANCE600 ohms Balanced, 300 ohms SE Main (2). 20K ohms minimum load and 2000pF maximum capacitance. Outputs (3): spectron has an input of 50k ohms | |
| Tube preamp question i believe there is one not too far, ill defiantly inquire. The arc 17se really makes my amp/speakers sound better (best I've heard thus far) but I'm really missing the mid bass i heard with the Ayre. if these were my only two options id keep the a... | |
| Tube preamp question Demo'd a whole assortment of preamps the past two weeks. i must say most (not all) were very nice, each having their own set of characteristics. i have heard, prima luna , rogue, audio research, cary, aesthetix, ayre and a few others. Of those men... | |
| Tube preamp question Thanks for the input Jmcgrogan2 , I appreciate it.Right now I run full balanced from my av pre to my mono amps and I love it. If I were to add a tube pre with a ht bypass that was non balanced would this now make my system unbalanced since it's co... | |
| Tube preamp question I would remove the modwright as many say it has a detailed SS sound.Cary slp-03, cary 2002, bat vk5i and bat vk30 all seem to be possibilities in my price range. I've heard mixed reviews about noise on the doge model. | |
| Tube preamp question Great info guys. I've read up a bit on all of your suggestions and this seems like a very good way to go and best of both worlds as i can use my existing amps/speakers with my current preamp. some current audiogon tube preamps in the my general pr... | |
| Tube preamp question Swampwalker,Thank you very much for your response. Interestingly enough I saw the lexicon has the ability for "analog pass through" for certain inputs. When I read that last night I was wondering if it would be possible to connect my universal pla... |