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| Audio Research LS-5 & Pass X250, good match? Hello,As a long time LS5 MK II owner (7 years) and MK III owner (a little over 1 year), my experiences with the 2 versions is different than the previous post. In 1997, I took my MK II to the ARC dealer to compare with the MK III. It was the LS5's... | |
| Tough BAT choice ? VK-150SE/VK-600SE Hello,As you can see from many of my posts here, I am a huge fan of BAT products, primarily phono and line stages; I have not heard their power amps however. But I have to imagine that all I have read here on Audiogon about the Atmasphere amps, I ... | |
| Pass Labs versus Jeff Rowland, Audio Research Hello,I have written much here about ARC gear and my experiences with Magnepan 3.3 and now 3.5 speakers. Indeed, the VT100 is a wonderful amp, but the VT130 from the mid 90s was absolutely incredible ... midrange to die for....and what an awesome ... | |
| Opinions on Audio Research DAC III. Tube Dac Hello,I have checked this post a few times hoping others would chime in. But here are my experiences in my quest to find a musical redbook CD DAC....and owning the DAC3 along the way. You do not mention the rest of your system. The ARC DAC3 is one... | |
| The end of Focal based speakers like Wilson Audio? That can be a whole lot of money to spend on a product solely based on its model number. I sure hope people anywhere, Asia or elsewhere, buy such a product based on it performance and not the number. | |
| Balanced Phono Connections Hello,I had exactly your setup a few years ago. Was first using the ARC DIN-to-XLR to the PH2 and then tried the same connections with a SilverBreeze cable from SilverAudio. This latter cable was absolutely phenomenol in terms of clarity and resol... | |
| best shippers? FedEx Ground? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UPS and FedEx are both a disaster. You can pretty much forget about either of them covering the insurance when they trash your products through what is very clearly careless handling. | |
| Upgrade Thiel CS3.6 to CS6?? Hello,I had a pair of 3.6 and 2.3 for front and rear speakers in an HT system. This was quite nice but the pair of Talon Khorus and Peregrine that replaced the Thiels is simply in a completely different league. There is a very natural tonal balanc... | |
| Which amp is better suited for LP playback? Hello,You make no mention on the speakers you are or will be using. The amp to choose will depend much more on the speakers than the type of primary source in your system.System synergy is important with all components chosen, but the amp-speaker ... | |
| mixing tube and solid state amps I would not at all be concerned with the speed of the tube amp "keeping up" with the solid state amp. This is silly! A number of us seek a tube amp because it creates a 3-dimensionality, a harmonic richness and and natural decay of notes that even... | |
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| mixing tube and solid state amps Fatparrot, yes, I had an ARC amp that had input trim pots which I never used but I have to imagine that the quality here is not very good. I would really only want this on my low-frequency amp ... and ultimately it might be the high-frequency amp ... | |
| mixing tube and solid state amps Are you proposing a passive bi-amp or an active biamp? With an active biamp, it is typical for the low freq side of the active crossover to have a level control to match the two amplifiers' differences. It is highly unlikely you will find a tube a... | |
| Trade-off between soundstage vs. PRAT Yes, I would agree that timing would be fine to define all 3 of these terms. But I hear PRAT describing Linn TTs and Naim electronics frequently here and very rarely other companies.What Andy describes sounds to me more like harmonic richness, amb... | |
| Trade-off between soundstage vs. PRAT Please define the following:PaceRhythmTimingSeems like only UK products ever get credit for these attributes. |