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| Best turntable setup for under $300 Thorens 145/150/160/166 with Grado Gold (or any cartridge at around $150~200) would be a good start at under $300. | |
| What is the best RCA interconnect? I guess you guys can at least tell the best IC cable you've ever used so far among others, either best value cables or best regardless of the cost. | |
| Best Tube Preamp with Phono under $2000 ? Rogue 99 Magnum BAT VK-3i with remote and phonoBoth used can be found at around $1000~1500. | |
| Turntable/Arm/Cart for Classic Rock; $1500 budget I have a clearaudio emotion with Audio Technica AT150mlx, which I spent for about $1500.I also have a Thorens TD145MKii and Grado Gold cartridge (at under $300) with Klipsch KLF-20, and it works very good with rocks. | |
| Has anyone tried Clear Day Cables? I can also attest that my Clear Day Shotgun cable gives very detailed and live sound, compared to some of the cables I had -- Zu Wax biwire, Linn K400 biwire, (old)signal cable single/bi wire, and many more cheap cables at under $50 per 6 foot.Jus... | |
| Which cable do you think is most important? Would your wife allow you to treat your living room for better acoustics? ;-)My system is in my living room and those tweaks would not pass WAF. So, room treatment would not be much of an option for me, except changing rugs. My living room is abou... | |
| Matching SS amp with Rogue Magnum 99 & Tyler LSS? OK.I got BAT VK-200. It replaced Linn AV5105. With a few days of careful listening, I could easily tell that, compared to Linn AV5105, VK-200 is a better amp. Intially I was a bit disappointed, maybe because I was expecting night and day change, b... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- If you own a separate bank account linked to PayPal to manage your buy/sell transactions. Well, if the account was not initially known to your spouse but later got revealed, then ... | |
| BAT VK-200 vs VK-220? It is a usual one piece LSS with 8" driver. Rogue says that Magnum 99 would work well with either balanced or unbalanced amp, so I hope it would work good with vk-200. It would be hard to find a preamp that would surpass Magnum 99 at similar price... | |
| BAT VK-200 vs VK-220? Rogue Magnum does not support balanced. The BAT I will have comes with RCA adapters. I read about that BAT amp works best with balanced preamps, but I also read that it would work good with other preamps. I bought BAT with the mind to replace Rogu... | |
| Is the remote controller a boon? Larryi, many thanks for your indepth post. Now I change my thought on my Rogue Magnum 99 remote -- one big heavy aluminum case with just volume contol. No mute or souce control. Now I think the Rogue remote is pretty cool!When a small compay like ... | |
| BAT VK-200 vs VK-220? Samzx,What a small world we live in agon! You mate VK-200 with VK-5i? How did you come back to VK200?Have you tried other preamp than VK-5i? .I will have VK-200 soon. I have Rogue Magnum 99. I will see how well BAT works with Rogue.I thought about... | |
| Matching SS amp with Rogue Magnum 99 & Tyler LSS? Thanks for the info.I've decided to go for BAT VK-200. I seriously thought about DNA 225, but it is a little bit over my budget. VK-200 is a bit shy of power I expected (200 vs 250 WPC/4 ohm), but many users seem to believe it is more powerful tha... | |
| Matching SS amp with Rogue Magnum 99 & Tyler LSS? Thanks. DNA-225 seems to be a nice choice.I am considering several amps now, including DNA-1 dlx and Van Alstine Omega III 440hc. Anybody has an experience with those amps with Rogue? | |
| best monitor speaker under $2000 I suggest you buy amplifiers for speakers, not speakers for amplifiers.Would it be because amplifiers is secondary to speakers? Or, any other specific reason? I guess it makes sense to me, but I cannot put into right words why. |