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| Parasound Halo JC2 As Audiobrooke kept his unit, he may have a clearer sense of the unit's performance. I would, however, point out that the Presence Deluxe is not exactly a "tube unit" in the traditional sense. It is more akin to a solid-state unit in its presentat... | |
| Cambridge 840c vs. Bryston BCD-1 vs. Ayre CX-7e I would not, personally, put the Droplet ahead of the Cambridge unless you like fuzzy sound. I once reviewed the Droplet, and found it warm, fuzzy and not terribly pure sounding, as though all the instruments had a halo around it. I noticed one of... | |
| Transparent MM2 The Ultra MM2 speaker cable is pretty darn good. I can only imagine what the reference is like. The lack of grain moving from MM1 Super was laugh-out-loud shocking...and much better dynamics. Much, MUCH better than the MM1s. | |
| Current Faves that "Swing"? I wouldn't say that the disc determines the sound, Jaybo. I would say that the hardware, to use a common phrase, 'gets out of the way' and allows the disc to shine through. Shadorne's comment is, of course, quite right: dynamics, both micro and ma... | |
| Parasound Halo JC2 I had a JC-2 for a nearly a month.I found that, out of the box, the preamp had high resolution, and sounded musical, but it was, for me, too lightweight in the midbass through lower midrange, which resulted in a presentation that was thinner than ... | |
| Cambridge 740c or Rega Apollo with Linn and Sonus A furthur thought: people sell things not because the item itself isn't superior to what they have, but sometimes because it doesn't SOUND like what they want it to sound like. People talk about "more bass" as though it means something, when it si... | |
| Nordost Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma? I've had all three: the Brahma is the most solid of the 3 with much more weight than the other two. | |
| Vincent Amps To clarify, I did NOT have the Vincent monoblocks, I had the integrated. | |
| Any exp. w/ Shunyata Dark Field Cable Elevators Well, the truth is...I don't hear THAT much of a difference with them, but I only got the 4 pack, and not the 12 pack. I do hear some difference, mostly in clarity, but I'd have to wait a bit longer to be sure. Davt seems to have a clearer perspec... | |
| Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1 I had a Benchmark. I think it was clearer than the Cambridge (from memory), but not terribly dimensional, a bit cool, and lacking the soul of music, although, again, QUITE a bit of clarity to it. Robert E. Greene loves it, though. I never quite wa... | |
| Top 5 sounding cd player in the 1000-2000$ range Rega Apollo, Cambridge 840C...I have both, and find the Cambridge having noticeably more low-level resolution, plus the highs are quite eye-opening. NOW, having said that, the Cambridge is just a little bit "contained," meaning the sound does not ... | |
| A question for those who've chosen a Valhalla PC.. ...and, 2 years later, who weighs in on the Nordost, but HP, who only NOW realizes that the Nordost is "somewhat threadbare." Hence the Odins. I would guess this does settle the uncertainty of whether or not Nordost "whitens" the sound for those o... | |
| Cambridge 740c or Rega Apollo with Linn and Sonus Sorry, Jimmy, to be so late in responding. Haven't been in here the last 2 weeks.Sorry , I have not tried the digital inputs. I would imagine they would be quite formidable, but I haven't had time to try that yet. | |
| Unico vs. ASL AQ1003DT I have an ASL AQ1003. Earlier model. I drive Usher 718s with them, and except for the loudest crescendos, they seem to do quite well. Ushers, by the way are rated at 87db, but are most likely 85db as I have several other 87db speakers that require... | |
| Vincent Amps I had the 236 integrated. I liked it, but wasn't overwhelmed by it. I do, however, look for a sense of life, not "good bass" or whatever else part of the frequency spectrum comes to mind. I do look for cointinuousness, a trait first seen in the Ja... |