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| Speaker Choice for a larger room Tyler Acoustics Woodmeres - mine sound beautiful with a 135w/ch Coda-Continuum Unison 3 Ultra integrated. | |
| Ultimate challenge biggest bang speaker I've owned both Linbrooks and, now, Woodmeres. The Millenium tweeters take time to open up and will still get better after 100 hours. The Linbrooks as a system seemed to reach full potential over about 9 months. Well worth the wait! jb | |
| integrated amp for thiel cs2.4 Consider the Coda-Continuum Unison 3 Ultra.I'm a tube guy at heart, but use this amp in a second system. First 35 watts are pure Class A. Dead quiet, incredible bass control, consistently natural tonality across the full musical spectrum (i.e., to... | |
| Newbi seeking advise - why tubed pre-amp? Paraphrasing Bob Crump from an earlier related thread, a really good SS active preamp is very challenging and costly to design and build. Good tubed preamps are less costly. | |
| Are the Denons the Best Universals to Mod? If you don't want DVD audio capability, the ModWright Signature Truth-modded Sony 999ES is both visually and musically fabulous. I am very happy with mine. It's scary close to my big rig front end which includes an Audio Note DAC4.1x Signature at ... | |
| Can OTL's drive ribbons well? AtmaSphere M60s have been a great match with my Raven R3.1 drivers. | |
| CODA Continuum Unison 3.1? Email Mark Ward at Coda as he can explain the difference far better than I can.jb | |
| CODA Continuum Unison 3.1? I've owned a Unison 3 Ultra integrated for about 3 months now. It does all the things I like about SS (especially bass authority/control and handling difficult loudspeaker load), yet also puts as much "flesh on the bones" as most tube equipment I'... | |
| Advice on integrated tube amps FWIW, I've gotten beautiful sound using a 30W/ch 6L6-based tube amp with Dynaudio Contour 1.1 "clone" DIY loudspeakers (Esotec tweeters/17W75 woofers), debunking (for me at least) the contention that Dynaudio loudspeakers are power hungry. | |
| Advice on integrated tube amps Bill Baker of Response Audio is running a clearance on Ming Da amps and had two MC-88 units left a few days ago. It has a true active tube preamp stage unlike most of the so-called tube integrateds. I'd have bought one myself but I have no need... | |
| Argh Too Many Choices Bill Baker of Response Audio is running a "clearance/demo" sale and lists a "Reference Modded" demo Ming Da MC-3 tube (including rectifier) preamp for $1050 w/warranty. I own one of his modded Ming Da preamps and just bought another from his sale ... | |
| Need Inexpensive Crossover Consider the Behringer DCX2496 (XLR in/outs, but RCA/XLR adapters are easily had).Active crossover and digital EQ functions.Under $400 new.I have found it transparent in a $15K system. It's EQ function has tamed a huge (+15dB w/Rat Shack analog so... | |
| The end of Focal based speakers like Wilson Audio? Buy a Focal-based design from the likes of Zalytron before their supply of OEM drivers runs out.I recently built monitors using the Audiom TD-5 tweeter (the ones used in the Grand Utopias before the Beryllium driver). The Zalytron cabinets are ven... | |
| Adding subwoofer to Full-Ragne Speakers question I have two ways (w/12"PHL 4530 midbass drivers) plus stereo subs, and use a DEQX with both 2 and 3 way digital crossover ability. My initial plan was to implement a 3 way crossover to lessen the bottom end burden on my PHL midbasses (decrease inte... | |
| Is it worth spending $10k on CD-only player today? If your CD collection consists of discs that are almost certainly never to be reissued on SACD or DVD-A and if your musical taste steers you toward older music also "doomed" to not be reissued in higher res format, it is absolutely sensible to spe... |