ejr1953
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| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? OK, I'm probably going to need a flack jacket, but here it is!One of my musician friends came over and listened for a while and before he left said "I just love the sound of those McIntosh tube amps"...but my MC452 is solid state! | |
| PS Audio Revises Marketing to a Direct Sales Only Model It seems that there are fewer and fewer "brick and mortar" high end audio shops and many of them have branched out into other things to stay current.I have been a PS Audio customer since I bought the DirectStream DAC, just after it was introduced.... | |
| North Carolina Audio Club My wife and I live in the DC/Baltimore area and last November were blessed with the arrival of our first grandchild, who lives in Asheville. We've been scoping out the Asheville/Hendersonville area as a possible area to purchase that "retirement ... | |
| Sopra N°2 I was fortunate to receive one of the first pair of Sopra No2's to arrive stateside, and I am still smitten.I drive them with a McIntosh MC452 solid state power amp, and McIntosh C2500 tube preamp...and have a pair of JL F113V2 sub woofers, as the... | |
| Looking for SS power amp for... I have been enjoying driving a pair of Focal Sopra No2's with a McIntosh MC452 for about three years now and I do believe that the McIntosh amps with autoformers on the output stage pair really well with those Focal tweeters...so, I'd second the n... | |
| Balanced vs RCA between amp/preamp Tidbit about XLR cables and plugs.In the late 70's I worked as a salesman at Shrader Sound in the Georgetown neighborhood in NW DC.Bill Shrader was long out-of-the-picture, and the silent partner who kept the business afloat was Jim Canon, who dev... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? I used to have a McIntosh C50 solid state preamp and swapped it out for a C2500 tube preamp, and that change not only smoothed out violins, acoustic sounds (voices, pianos, guitars, etc.) also seemed to sound more "natural" to me. Then I swapped ... | |
| C2600 recommendations I've enjoyed a C2500 now for two years, swapped out the stock tubes for Gold Lions, immediately noticed a difference, especially in the midrange. I don't use the internal DAC. I suspect the main sonic difference between the C2500 & C2600 wou... | |
| Mcintosh C2500 DAC section I have found that of all the audio products out there, the DAC seems to be the one which is undergoing the most improvement now. I've had a McIntosh MAC6700, C50 and now C2500 and with all of those have been using a PS Audio DirectStream DAC, a M... | |
| Qobuz Windows App Since my last post on this subject in February, I gave up on the Qobuz Windows app. When I investigated further, I found that the app freezing was a really common problem, one that Qobuz support admitted they were working on. I’d say it ran only a... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? I have a McIntosh C2500 tube preamp and MC452 solid state power amp, driving a pair of Focal Sopra No2's. In my search for a new pair of speakers, I found the MC452 was the best match for the Sopra's, brought out the best soundstage, smooth but d... | |
| eqipment on 24/7? I power all my equipment down when I'm done listening. I do find that, after powering it back up, it takes 10-15 minutes for it to "warm up" and sound its best. | |
| MC462 enough to handle Revel Salon 2’s? I have a McIntosh MC452 driving a pair of Focal Sopra No2's (91 db efficiency rating) and when I'm really cranking it in my 24 x 26' "man cave" the needles dance around the 4.5 watt mark.I see the Ravel Salon 2's are listed as 86.4 efficiency rati... | |
| Qobuz Users Update? I was a Qobuz beta tester and after my free month signed up for the service, using their Windows10 app, which was dreadfully unreliable, so after a few weeks cancelled my subscription.I recently converted my Roon setup from having the core run on ... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong Erik, thanks for the post, always an interesting read:-)... I second that! |