jack_n_roberts
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| Review: Audio Note M5 PreAmp I have never tried Rowland at home. I know it's a great product from listening at a friends. I use Valhalla interconnects and speaker wire. I also failed to mention I am listening to it in the balanced mode. It and to Kora are truly balanced. | |
| Review: Audio Note M5 PreAmp It cost $7500.00. | |
| Any great speakers out there? Gershman Gaps or even the Avant Garde. | |
| which DAC to buy ? I have heard the first three and I would buy the Hermes. I think it is the most refined and musical DAC I have heard. | |
| TO be SET or to be OTL that is the ques. I have owned an SET and have had a lot of time listening to OTLs. The SET has a glorius midrange, with an all most technicolred glow to the music. I don't mean this as a put down it is quite beautiful to listen to. The sound of an OTL is much less... | |
| Tranport and wire for Bel Canto DAC1 Don't use toslink. I've tried. Don't use a DVD player either. This combination may be a cheep solution but not a good one. I use a pioneer elite for a transport with a Harmonic Tech platinum coax. The best upgrade there is for the BelCanto is a po... | |
| PowerSnake Owners Unite! I can't believe it two post in one day I am passionate about. I have been in serious audio for 28 years. I have never had any component make the kind of difference the powersnakes have made. I have a black mamba on my joule-electra and a cobra on ... | |
| Advice for integrated amps The joule-electra VAMP is incrediable. It now gives you a 150 watts per channel and the first 25 are pure class A Triode. The mail things it gives you is incredible sound. It gives you according to Jud about 90% of the big OTLs and His best line s... | |
| Best power cord for amp?? I am sold on the powersnakes. The black mamba is very good and an incrediable improvement for the money but the cobra is a several magnitudes better. I'm afraid to hear the king cobra. | |
| DACS - Need Advice I agree with the Bel Canto Dac One. When broken in it is such a great Dac. Very Detailed, very relaxed and I know this isn't an audiophile term but the top end is just pretty. | |
| best 2 channels power amp around $3k? Lot's of Good Amps at this price,but if you can spring for the Joule-Electra Vamp you have moved into sound it usally cost many thousands to get. This is an integrated and it is just fundlementally right. Don't be tempted to get the amp only versi... |