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Help: speakers or amp to blame?
hook up the 9nt's to the acurus amp, then you should have your a good idea if you need more power, power supplies in recievers are usually smaller 
Looking for speakers with soundstage depth
certain thiels are really nice, it took me 20 sec to like the cs1.6(found some on the gon) and i really disliked the 1.5, go figurewhen you said you were looking for sound stage and the "never heard that" i had to drop a plug, you should find a de... 
Obscure companies making excellent speakers?
http://www.aminaaudio.com/Benny is awesome, he is a very good tech and his speakers are amazing, I have listened to a ton of speakers but his are so smooth and musical its very impresive.... 
Opinions needed
there are several pre-amps with two sets of output for just those type of situations, i don't know other my my sonic frontiers has 2 sets of balanced and 2 sets of xlr outputs, im sure there are newer ones with similar featuresets 
used pre
you can get a sonic frontiers preamp in that range 
Drop-in upgrade to CS3310 volume control
I tried this it worked pretty well, I noticed a lower noise floor... 
Need Speakers at least 4 feet high
i say go with the stands for the existing speakers or with monitors and a sub, i say the monitors if the wife if trying to move things around a lot, an REL sub is always lots of fun 
Science Fiction Time ?
Storage formats that are not medium based, i.e. MP3, that are small, incredibly high quality(better than DVD-A, and SACD).SACD and DVD-A are a fads based of technology that is quickly getting to its EOL, why should we still be using such limited, ... 
John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense"
I have read thru this thread probably 3 times so far, Im not trying to start this argument back up, but I would like to try and say something to justify experimenting with cables to newbies.I think cable prices are the biggest rip-off in the entir... 
PC to DAC questions
excuse me i use BSD @##@#!~, get off you high horse, and the end of audio my a**, when I master om my computer i master in 24/96 so BLAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! get off my case you poser 
Velodyne or REL or Vandersteen?
It really matters on your preference and application, the Vandersteen and REL are much more suited for music than the Velodyne, which can sound a little bloomy in the sub 40Hz area, which actually really sounds nice in a Theater. The REL stadium i... 
Mix and match I.C. companys?
please dont use all caps. 
Favorite Audio Ad
oh the irony i forgot the "o" 
Favorite Audio Ad
hahahahhehehahaehah funny type ;) 
This kills me...
This happens in my car all the time, it has a very nice Bose sond system with TONs of toe tappin bass, and when I get to my hifi SOME things just don't sound as pleasing. But what are you going to do? I try to produce music myself and I use my Hif...