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| McCormack DNA amp options.... Hi Zach; if you really love your DNA-0.5, then you would REALLY REALLY love the DNA-0.5 Rev A Gold. I recently had a .5 upgraded to .5 Gold, and it's the best amp I've ever heard-- bar none (well, the DNA-2 Rev A is as good if you need/want the po... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase I must be the luckiest guy on Audiogon as my wife and I HAVE SEPARATE CHECKING ACCOUNTS. However, I often lie, just out of principle, when she asks me how much I paid for my latest audio gizmo. BTW, I'm not sexy, rich, or good looking like some ot... | |
| My heart goes out to the families of Columbia My reaction too Slipknot1. Craig | |
| Can you ever have too much power? As alluded to above, I agree with matching amp power to speaker needs. After going to Vandersteen 5 speakers that have built in 400 wpc amps to drive their built in sub-woofers, I went from a huge 300 wpc (McCormack DNA 2 Rev A) to a 100 wpc of eq... | |
| What are your "reference" CDs? 1. JJ Cale "Guitar Man"-- for male vocals.2. Melissa Etheridge, any of first 5 CDs-- for female vocals.3. George Thorogood "Anthology" for it's PR&T.4. Allison Moorer "Alabama Song"-- female vocals.5. Enigma, any of their CDs-- for the bass.6.... | |
| Performance of the Mark Levinson 360S I use the Levinson No. 37 transport and the 360S DAC, and the 360S is an excellent and very musical DAC with no musical weaknesses, IMO. Highly recommended. I use the very musical Cardas AES/EBU digital cable for connection. I did not like the ana... | |
| what are your favorite movie soundtracks. "Streets of Fire-- a Rock and Roll Fable", w/ soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Excellent. Also "Cross Roads" where some of the music is by Ry Cooder-- don't know if he also did the soundtrack, but excellent anyway. Cheers. Craig. | |
| Good, warm, musical, under $500 used monitor The perfect speaker does not exist no matter what the price, IMO. That said, I like the PSB Stratus Minis-- bass down to near 40 HZ, detailed but non-fatiguing, and can be warm depending on speakers cables and the rest of the system. They should b... | |
| What do in store listening tests prove? With the exception of speakers, in store demos are now of little use to me as I already have a good home stereo system. Any new equipment I consider, I insist on an in-home audition.But if you're just starting out in high-end audio, you probably w... | |
| Best cover tunes Had to go look it up.....Dan Penn wrote "At the Dark End of the Street". | |
| Best cover tunes Bobby King and Terry Evans "At the Dark End of the Street". The Committments also did an excellent version of this classic song. It eludes me at the moment who wrote it, but he should also be one of the great singer songwriters of the 1950-2000 th... | |
| 1950-2000: The Top 25 Singer/Songwriters Kris Kristopherson, more for his songwriting than singing. | |
| Vandy 5a's ? .......well, I own the Vand. 5s and love them-- haven't heard the 5As, but the $4500. cost of up-grade is out of my league. I suspect what Scott and Bigtee said above is right on. Cheers. Craig | |
| This Sistrum stuff works Twl; an interesting thread. Just a point re coupling vs decoupling: all of Steve McCormack's early DNA amps use BOTH. The DNA amps have big Sorbothane feet for isolating the amp from degrading vibrations at the front of the amp, and they also have... | |
| The Most Important Component Mes; I agree that room size/character and room/speaker interface are really important to a high quality stereo system. I'm responding to your post because my room at 14 X 22 X 7.5 ceiling ht. is very similar to yours, and it makes a very nice list... |