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| Separates or Receiver to modernize home theater? Your system is pretty nice. Unless you need more power, Meiwan is correct. You can do both, run the oppo directly into your new tv and if you need on-screen display you can run component video into the tv also. Component(RGB) is quite good as well... | |
| Money well spent on Amp or Speakers I agree with Metralla. Try moving the sub as well. Have you played with the crossover settings and volume on the sub? Try setting it lower, ie move from 80hz to 40. I would bet that your best results would be eliminating the sub, finding the best ... | |
| Help with narrowing down speaker choice I just looked at your system. Thiels really do like more power than 40 watts. Personally I found the sound characteristics on Thiels and Coincidents to be fairly similar. The difference is that Coincidents will sing with 5 watts. Both are very acc... | |
| Help fellow AV designers Thiel Powerpoint is wall mount, tiny and angle downwards for high mounting. The only holes are for the wire and mounting screws. They come primed to be painted any color. Find a sub that can be hidden or dual use as a plant stand or ??? SVS or HSU... | |
| Tube Preamp with adjustable gain Isn't that what a volume control is for? | |
| Best amplifier and preamp for klipsch heresy 3 Low power class A amps such as Pass or Threshold are a great match. | |
| Changing sides- Adventures in tubeland Since you are not changing the CAPs yourself, it won't be cheap or easy. Tube rolling is easy and you can always go back. Change caps and you are done for better or worse.For the cost of this, I would be inclined to tell you to upgrade the entire ... | |
| Looking for a standalone digital audio decoder I'm confused? If you aren't going to use 5.1, then you don't need to decode it? Correct? Even a pro logic unit with digital in should work since you only want two channel out.What's the second optical for? Coax or USB may work better?Also, you are... | |
| Sell towers for bookshelves? Bookshelves on proper stands can give your neighbors bass issues as well.Maybe just sorbothane feet under the speakers? Or even a thick piece of carpet to decouple them from the floor. | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns No sub should ever be necessary.I found that my 100 watt threshold amp had tons of bass at any volume. | |
| Preamp modifications - who would you use? Vinyl Renaissance10922 Shawnee Mission PkwyShawnee, KS 66203913.9620014I think these guys are great and very fast. My prime choice for upgrades and/or repairs.Chris Johnson has done some great work but shipping to CA is a pain in the butt and expe... | |
| Peachtree Decco 2 setup... I would question where and how you have the speakers set up. As mentioned by Hotmailjbc, are they in phase? How close to walls, etc...You can test the digital part by hooking up the cd with rca cables to the decc0 to compare? Also, tubes do get ol... | |
| What CD drive to use with DAC? Personally, I'd go with a higher end older unit as a transport over a cheap newer one. Many of the cheap ones only have toslink out and my preference is coax. Also, you should get a better power supply, better sound dampening and better connection... | |
| relationship between rec. and the other tubes? Most tube rolling would be with the 12at7's. You've got to be hard core to start rolling rectifiers. Time to start reading: "A Taste of Tubes" on sonic frontiers/Anthem web site & search for "Joe's Tube Lore". You will learn a lot. Email me if... | |
| Class A multichannel amplifier? Due to what Roscoeiii describes, I found the best alternative for my Coincident theater. I'm using a Mac 7106 which is 100 x 6. Mac is clean, crisp, detailed and a little on the warm side. Since I only need 5 channels, I bridged 2 channels to give... |