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| Anyone running Schiit Audio Freya preamp and a pair of Vidar power amps? What speakers? I firmly believe Schiit offers as much performance for the buck as I’ve found and I’ve been playing audiophile for 50 years. Totally agree, I’d go further "best bang for buck ever in the history of audio." And I asked and they haven’t discounted ... | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? arcamguy If anyone has experience with both the 600M and the M700 A buddy and I thought the BC 600M’s were the best we’ve heard Class-D we were very taken by them, but it was on a benign flat 6ohm impedance load Rahl ribbon 2way speaker, we hear... | |
| PL EVO Pre - Output transformers! output transformers George, and they tend to be less colorful. Just mellow and warm. To me they are bandwidth limited, can ring, have distortion (mellow and warm) and can compress compared to a good cap. DC coupling is way out in front of both.Ch... | |
| PL EVO Pre - Output transformers! I rather listen through a "good" cap than an output transformer, and the "best cap" is "no cap". DC coupling with well designed servo's sounds better again, than either cap or transformer.Cheers George | |
| First bi-amp go around The result. WOW! Very big improvement. If anyone has ever contemplated attempting bi-amping, I highly suggest it. There are two ways of passive bi-amping.1: If you have two different stereo poweramps amps, the only way is horizontal bi-amping, pu... | |
| McIntosh autoformers vs direct-coupled output George, I think he was referring to option 3 from your original post. Ah yes, same reply.Cheers George | |
| McIntosh autoformers vs direct-coupled output M.L. #3 - There is no such Martin Logan speaker that I know, but seeing your saying it has it own active bass, the amp you are to use will just see the ESL panel loading only of 40ohms-0.9ohms, if an ML. I would go with the direct coupled Mac IF ... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? I went from the very well-regarded Conrad-Johnson PV-11 to the McIntosh C220 preamp. My reason was mostly for functionality. I wanted a remote, tone controls, and a balance control with more range. I do not feel that this was a step down in terms... | |
| McIntosh autoformers vs direct-coupled output Is this just another of those opinions masking subjective bias, or is there technical substance here? First you need to say the model ML you have, what type of music, if you have ML’s1: Full range CLS/CLX, 2: Two ways with passive bass driver. 3:... | |
| McIntosh autoformers vs direct-coupled output Weren’t the amps in the Acoustat X output transformerless? Yes but also deadly as they supplied the HT to the ESL’s stators via the speaker cables, instead of the esl voltage step up 1:50 audio transformer (attached).https://ibb.co/wcVZGSVImagine ... | |
| Marantz HD CD 1 Awesome Transport Last night I noticed an issue I also had with mine I can hear the disc rubbing. Do you think that’s the laser or a wobbly spindle Very common, it’s usually the disc clamper magnet just touching the top housing arm it sits in before playing, an e... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? “The Krell KSA amps are pure Class A.” The only Krells that were full Class-A biased into 8ohms were the KSA50 and the KSA100 and KSA100 MkII monoblock, all these were internal chimney heat sinking and fan forced.https://youtu.be/kqSkh08AmKM?t=... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? Mcintosh are kind of the Harley Davidson of AudioA very good analogy especially the last three, Harley’s don’t handle, don’t stop, and don’t go, are technically inferior", they’re just for posing, and are relatively bullet proof.(because of the a... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? https://www.soundandvision.com/images/styles/600_wide/public/1212vintagemac.promo_.jpgBest amp they made in 1961 the MC275, then they lost the plot and started putting transformers on the output of solid state amps amps. And then there’s the speak... | |
| Marantz HD CD 1 Awesome Transport Saving my coin for a Jays CD II Mk II The Marantz and Cambridge have lasers that are available cheap (<$50) at many sources, just check what comes in the Jay’s and if it’s available anywhere cheap and not just from Jay’s.Cheers George |