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| New Springsteen Box: Opinions? Agora sounds much better than any tape or bootleg version and is sometimes redbook quality, sometimes not. All in all easily worth the price. Incidentally, there is a clear very visible defect in my cd 2 substrate (looks like a mini oil slick unde... | |
| Anyone using ARC Ref 5SE Preamp with McIntosh 275 ARC and Mac---a marriage made in hell. Go all ARC or all Mac. | |
| Stillpoints Ultra SS under your speakers? I spoke to the manufacturer last month. I was told that Ultra 6s are not for speakers. | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck My earlier statement that Beck deserved album of the year was in the context of the Grammy nominated albums. I thought it was the best of those but not THE best album of the year. | |
| Does HiRez really sound better? All things being equal (ie provenance being the mastertape), I'll take a well engineered hirez over a well engineered redbook recording. That being said, it all gets back to the recording and reproduction chain. Of course, things being unequal or ... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 A number of years ago, I switched from Mac C1000 3 piece (tube,ss, ps) pre to Ref 5 and felt the Ref 5 crushed it. This caused me to unload my Mac amp for an ARC amp which was of equal or greater importance to the overall gains in my SQ. The only ... | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck Kanye is a narrow minded, impulsive, egotistical, but talented rapper. He is not a musician and has no conception of music beyond his genre or what one would hear on a top 40 radio station. As such, he should keep his uninformed opinions to himsel... | |
| Have you heard the Ellington Masterpieces reissue? Yes he was. | |
| Casters for Wilson Sophia 2 Place each Wilson brass spike floor protector in the appropriately sized magic slider, edge sliders under each spike and move the speakers around the hardwood floor to your heart's content. | |
| ARC Galileo GSPre vs ARC Reference 5 SE ? .... Look at the 2 recent leveraged buyouts at ARC and you might conclude, as I have, that the GS 150 was aimed at the Asian market as higher ups at ARC have told me because it is an even bigger and potentially more profitable market than the US. Howev... | |
| Best speaker Cable matching Wilson Audio Sasha Transparent are great with Wilsons. Also, check out Shunyata. | |
| Audio Research GS150 Musings I'm a huge ARC fan as well. Hopefully, they make it right over time. Get back to superior engineering at a reasonable price. If ARC has decided to make its products look better for the Chinese market, it can be done with a reasonable (1 to 2k) pri... | |
| Audio Research GS150 Musings Bifwynne:I was in your camp as of the spring. ARC had been life testing for a very long time, but I had 2,000 hours on my tubes and wanted ARC's blessings for the KT150s in my Ref 150. I called Kal who indicated that life testing was not complete ... | |
| New KT150 tubes? I too waited anxiously for ARC to bless the KT150 s with the Ref 150 when I reached 2,000 hours on my KT120s in the summer. But they didn't, so I purchased another set of ARC KT120s. I have owned 2 ARC amps and 3 preamps and have always purchased ... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? TieBose in the low-mid market and Magico at the high end. |