hackmaster
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| Best Tube Preamp with Biamp Capability McIntosh C2200 is a great bet - superb tube preamp with MM phono, remote, three sets of outputs (two switchable, one always on) single ended and balanced inputs & outputs throughout. Tape loop, unity gain HT bypass, you name it this thing has ... | |
| Manley 440 monos to drive low impedance ribbons? A couple of things...First of all I think that using tubes on such a low load is an incredibly bad idea. You will be wearing down the tubes and transformers and really overworking the amplifier, and that is assuming that you can get the amp to per... | |
| What is the sweetest sounding tube amp. Cary SLA 70 Mk II - that's the model... just remembered. | |
| 3 Brit players around 2,000 retail-which wins? The Jupiter sells very well for us - personally I don't see how you can do better for the money having listened to virtually all of the competitors in the same price range. | |
| What is the sweetest sounding tube amp. I agree with Twl - SET is generally the way to go for maximum sweetness, as it were. 45's are sweet indeed but unrealistic for many audiophiles. 2A3's are likewise sweet but relatively skimpy on power. Both of these tubes can be simply magical on ... | |
| Reccomended power cords for Cary gear Synergistic Research all the way. | |
| Belles Power Modules 20A pre. Whos heard one? The 20A is not a "hybrid" preamp - it is a pure tube design. It is excellent for the money, and includes remote volume and mute. It also has a full record loop (which can be monitoring a different source than the listener) and a home theater bypas... | |
| Phono Section Break-In CD ?? Well I suppose one could argue that for an individual it is not the best use of money. For a store like mine we burn in so much equipment, and we can only have so much playing at any one given time, hence burn in devices (including cable cookers) ... | |
| Phono Section Break-In CD ?? Without a box in between the output of the CD player and the inputs of the phono stage you're likely to do damage.The best burn in I've ever run into is from Thor Audio - it has a box which goes in between the CD player and the phono stage (an inv... | |
| 2000 for turntable and arm..... Nottingham Interspace with Dynavector 20X-H would be my recommendation. That's almost exactly $2k and we sell the setup pretty steadily. I don't think you can do better for the money. | |
| Confused addict: need help with upgrade I suspect you're maxing out the front end of your system. Classe is indeed a good match for B&W. It is sufficiently powerful with enough current output and bass control. It also has a polite sound as opposed to some amps (you mention Krell in ... | |
| 300B Speakers, Reynaud & Reference 3A We used to carry both JM Reynaud and Reference 3A, and we sell a lot of SET amps. We are very deliberate about which speakers we sell with SET so I'll jump in here...JM Reynaud does not make any speakers that I have heard which run well on SET at ... | |
| Cartridge Match for Krell KPE Reference/Rega P25 Ditto - the Dynavector 17D2 is what we sell on P25's most regularly. Fabulous cartridge on that table. | |
| Burning a CD Gboren is 100% right on about the audio optimized blanks.When you burn an audio CD on your computer don't burn at super high speeds. I don't recommend burning higher than 4x. Doing so will sometimes results in too many errors and will cause errati... | |
| Dynavector 10x4 or Ortofon X5-MC? I am biased since I am a dealer but the 10X4 is one of the best values in phono cartridges I have ever come across. I really like it a lot - and we typically do bundle it with the P3. I think the two make for a great combo.I have not found that th... |