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| Sonic Frontier Line 3 vs McIntosh C2500 Prettty awesome. What duelunds did you get? | |
| Parasound p5 vs avr ??????? I dont know abiut the clasxic, but just take a look inside. ;) im not saying its a terrible preamp, but that the p7 is a much better value. | |
| Marantz and Stereophile? @cleeds Um, no. :) All businesses have multiple agendas. That's just a nature of being in business. @jafant is of course correct. They are not a benevolent non-profit (as opposed to a malicious non-profit) so we have to assume that staying IN busi... | |
| Love for music shatter by highend equipment @rods84 Great insights. I think that in a large part people are looking for a reason to shop. The high end store is like a shoe store for them. There’s always one more you haven’t tried on.The other part is conditioning, and the third part is inte... | |
| Outboard crossover? Why not? @bombaywalla The Apogee's had no real speaker cabinet though, did they? :) I mean, it was one giant magnet frame.I did not write anything about advantages of active vs. passive, by the way, at least not here. :) It's more complicated than one or t... | |
| Active and passive preamp in one chain ? I misread. sorry. i missed you were playing vinyl. its not passive vs. Active, but that you lack a phono stage, or phono preamp at all.These are funky beasts. not only do they provide high gain, they must equalize the sound. the eq curve is to... | |
| Outboard crossover? Why not? I didnt say all inner crossovers were bad, but that ther could be benefits of externals. an active crossover is before the amplifier. its called active because it needs a power supply. the subwoofer output of a dvd player is a type of active cr... | |
| Outboard crossover? Why not? Inna, I’m assuming you are discussing having a passive crossover, that is outside of the speaker cabinet, right? There are no disadvantages at all, but several possible advantages. I should point out there’s a hybrid approach. In this, there is a ... | |
| OPPO BDP-103 (NON Darby) So one compelling reason to get the 105... USB 2.0 music output. You should double check, but I believe they added this feature in a firmware upgrade. The 103 does not get it though. :( Erik | |
| Active and passive preamp in one chain ? Inna,That's not necessarily a terrible thing. You have gain, but it's in the amplifier. Having a single gain stage is usually a very good thing, less distortion, less noise, less parts to optimize. This is by no means a weird situation. Having sai... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... I would only take albums I hate, so that I'd not get sick of music I actually liked! However, in the spirit of putting together a "best of" list.....My list is based on moods, not sound quality or microgasmic dynamic detail or anything like that.... | |
| What does "voiced" mean to you? Usually in speaker design it means that the designer stopped measuring and made tweaks based on subjective listening impression. Changing the "voice" of a speaker if you will. This can be very small such as trying out a bypass capacitor, or bigger... | |
| Options for full-featured music servers/streamers? @monte_15 My Perl scripts are clean and easy to read. :-) I'm like the Perl developer none of the "real" perl developers like. But I get it. Sometimes it's a lot less frustrating to write a script than fight a "wizard" though, or the naming form... | |
| Convert Conrad Johnson MF-2500 from 110V to 220V Why don't you ask them? THey have great customer service. They could easily look up whether that transformer was dual voltage.Best,Erik | |
| Retooling the system upward?? What speakers would be a major upgrade over GET model 7's? @samac I like Monitor Audio a great deal, it would be interesting to know if Sunny likes them as I don't think they'll sound the same. Based on liking GE I didn't think they were for him, but listening is free. :) Sunny should definitely give them... |