hilde45
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| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Thanks all. These are good suggestions. @scothurwitz The Don Sachs suggestion does keep coming up. (Also: Quicksilver, Ultraverve, Had)@dodgealum I cannot see a price on the Herron VTSP-3A page. | |
| Is Parasound on to something? Or, How important is crossover management in preamps? Here's the take from PS Audio sales. I asked them why their stuff didn't have what Parasound did. The reply: "We believe handling the crossover is actually detrimental to the sound quality. When a speaker designer finalizes a design for a speaker... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? That’s great, @oddiofyl . I will go look for those -- very simple unit. I suppose that keeps costs low and noise out. (Was looking at Parasound and what a difference in the feature set. I suppose one just goes a different direction with these sort... | |
| $3000 stand mounted speakers? You might look at Salk. | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? @decooney Thanks for paying attention to my question. Some answers to yours:DEALER VISITS: Yes, I’m sharing the specs of my speakers with dealers I visit. So far, I’ve just visited one regarding amplifiers — there, the suggested purchase was Paras... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Thanks, @wig. | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? That aspect @phusis "a live sound imprinting" is significant. Thanks for putting it that way. Another, good metric to judge speakers by; very useful. | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Thanks, for that ref. Perhaps I need to go above my $3k limit... boy, how these things take off. But if it's not a boat anchor... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Thanks for chiming in, Don. I was looking for things for sale, and only see 1 unit, here: http://www.dsachsconsulting.com/for%20sale.htmlPerhaps there's another website or page I'm missing? | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Thanks, unsound. That helps me make a bit more sense of the measurement which the page for the speakers I ordered list. I bought them for the reputation and reviews --and the notion they'd be sized well for my listening room, which was confirmed b... | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? I’m in the process of getting new speakers, but to just affirm OP's core argument, I’ll tell you this. I have some old Pinnacle PN5+ bookshelves — very small mid-fi speakers from the 1980s. Simply by buying acoustic foam for underneath them, repos... | |
| Considering getting a CD player (again). Used? New? Criteria? @naimfan For what it's worth, I spent some time comparing it pretty closely to the streaming stuff I have (not high res, but 320kbs). I really heard a difference -- it was definite, clear to my ears. And I often second guess my ability to hear dif... | |
| Considering getting a CD player (again). Used? New? Criteria? There are several things I like about your Emotiva more than the Cambridge CXC I just bought -- outputs, display, and the remote by a mile. The only solace I have is that I paid $399 rather than $599 and didn't get a DAC I didn't want. Happy liste... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Great point. I know there are used Parasounds at this dealer. P5 and A23. Not sure how outdated they are but they’d save me 1/3rd of the cost, or about 1100.00. If I went that way. | |
| Is Parasound on to something? Or, How important is crossover management in preamps? Thanks, Erik. It sounds like all things being otherwise equal, the Parasound feature is a plus. Thanks, Millercarbon. It seems like if everything sounds good, then the crossover is a plus. (I never said I wanted to make the decision without making... |