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| BAT VK3500 vs. Hegel H590 @macg19 curious, where did you get the T+A? | |
| My experience with The Music Room TMR is located in Denver. I’ve had a tour of their facility there. It is truly top notch. Quite impressive. Highly recommend them. | |
| BAT VK3500 vs. Hegel H590 @macg19 The Hegel H590. It’s a great one box solution basically. Wilson Alexia V1. | |
| The Music Room I use TMR all the time both buying and selling. While one could loosely argue you might make a bit more selling on Agon or USAM, when you consider ALL the hassle is taken on by TMR in a sale, it becomes much more with the consignment fees they cha... | |
| BAT VK3500 vs. Hegel H590 Having owned all three, you really can’t go wrong. The BAT gives you tubey goodness. The Hegel gives you a bit more grunt. The HV is a beast, a bit more analytical than the other two but not in a bad way. I don’t think the power of the others will... | |
| The Psychology of Constant (Equipment) Change @audphile1 No doubt! Why the heck do they do that?! They like my fireplace chimney cover! | |
| The Psychology of Constant (Equipment) Change I think we are over analyzing the whole thing. It’s pretty simple really, there are too many toys to play with! Few sound truly bad, most sound very good to amazing. Price point is somewhat irrelevant, play in the sand that suits you. There are pl... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight Check out The Music Room. They currently have a 590 for around 5800.00. They are also Benchmark dealers. You’ll see a many other potentials as well. They have a great return policy which would allow you to sample some of these pieces. You might ev... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight Just curious, where did you see the EX8 is 300wpc? It’s rated at 100wpc into 8ohm and 175 (tested it clipped at 170) into 4 which suggests a fairly lightweight current delivery that would get shaky into lower ohm loads. Do your Harbeths have diffi... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight No need to complicate your setup with switchers and what not. Any device you put in the signal path has the possibly (likely hood) of degrading your overall sound. Keep it simple. Plenty of great options without all the goofy stuff. If you wire... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight The Sim 340 would be a little under powered for the Harbeths. The new North Collection integrated would be a great option. The H390 sounds great and has pretty much the same overall connectivity as the H590. I’ve owned both. The 590 is currently m... | |
| Advice on next step for vinyl chain The problem is your preamp. ARC preamps are great but their gain structure is crazy high. The trouble you will have with any cart, phono combo is you will need to drop the gain out of the phono pre too much to get it to work well with the ARC and ... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight Hegel H390 should fit the bill perfectly. Does all you want to do with the exception of HPs isn’t TOO heavy and hits the power needs with no issue. | |
| Differences in YouTube, Spotify, etc. Apple and Spotify here. Apple is now lossless and sounds surprisingly good. Spotify cuz I like the Spotify connect interface better than Airplay overall, plus I can use both in the car seamlessly. Streaming is for fun listening, discovery and band... | |
| Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :) Wow, lots of brow beating and chest thumping here. Here’s the deal, it doesn’t matter what is spent on a system. If you enjoy it, then it’s all good. No explanation or justification required. But don’t judge someone who might spend more (however m... |