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| Krell Pre with ARC Amps - how 'bout that? Why on earth would you want to do this? Would be like putting a Geo Metro engine in a Ferrari!I have found the preamp to be a far more significant link in the chain than the amp. This is one part of the system where you do not want the weakest lin... | |
| Comparing pre amps and the upgrade dilema I had an LS5II for 6 years then sold it which was dumb so I turned right around and got another. Then I sold that for a MK III for just a couple hundred $$ more. The MK III is much more refined than the II...particularly with a more natural top en... | |
| Which brand of speaker cable with NBS? I would think the speaker cable interface between the amp and speaker would be more important than the IC driving the amp. There are always so many great deals on MIT cables and even though I am an NBS owner, I have found the MIT cables to be outs... | |
| Experiences with Audio Research Tube Amps. Hello,I had the VT130 for about two years driving Maggie 3.3 speakers. Much of the time, there was enough power but there were definitely times when the amp peaked out. But it was very much a soft clipping. Ideally, this is not a good match. I the... | |
| Turntable tuning tips from Lloyd Walker... It is the following: http://walkeraudio.com/fine_tuning_your_turntable.htm | |
| Maggie 3.6 vs. Talon Khorus? Hello again....I did not mean to imply I found the Khorus to have more body than the Maggies. On the contrary as I find the Maggies to create a much bigger 3D presentation which has much to do with why I am quite the Maggie fan. But with a swap fr... | |
| Maggie 3.6 vs. Talon Khorus? Hello,I have owned the Khorus for about 5 months now. Previously I owned Maggie 3.3s for about 3 years. No doubt the differences between the 3.3 and the 3.6 is minimal vs the Khorus vs Maggie sound.The Maggie sound/experience is quite unique to ju... | |
| Platforms: granite, marble, maple or other? Thanks guys....I will continue to keep an open mind when it comes to tweaks. Ever since I borrowed an NBS Master interconnect and picked my jaw off the floor when it trounced a handful of other cables (Audioquest, Cardas, Transparent, Straighwire)... | |
| Platforms: granite, marble, maple or other? Garfish, it was not that I am a believer or disbeliever here. But from all my experiences with "upgrading" my audio and HT systems, a piece at a time, after listening back and forth with and without the new item, it is often not as big a differenc... | |
| Platforms: granite, marble, maple or other? Hello.....You actually heard an improvement in the sound of your system when you put this maple board under your amp? Please share what differences were heard and how many times back and forth you went to confirm these improvements actually existe... | |
| Talon Khorus - Why So Many So Cheap? I am another audiogon member who got a great deal here on a demo pair late last year. In the $10k-15k range, there are so many choices that I suspect I would ultimately find a speaker I would prefer.....for one minor reason or another. But when it... | |
| Unsettled and considering changing stuff I have a couple ideas: 1) the Grado Sonata is a very good tracker and quite good in the bottom and mids but has virtually no life, harmonic richness nor 3D in the top frequencies. So many MC cartridges would definitely bring on more life to the mu... | |
| Giving up on Power Race, and going SET? Gosh how nice this would be for us Magnepan diehards. But we continue to chase the holy grail of high power amps to get these to sing. | |
| Any Bat VK-31SE owners out there...? I just recently traded my ARC LS5 III for a VK30SE. And I compared both of these to the 31SE and an Atmasphere MP3 (what a huge disappointment!) at the local dealer here in Minneapolis. I will not go into the details how the ARC or MP3 compares to... | |
| The best hybrid amp? Wasn't this thread about hybrid amps? I thought the Music Reference amps were tubes (input and output stages) ... and I was unaware that PS Audio did anything in the tube world. |