jedinite24
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| Upgrade Marantz 5004 CDP to what ? Hi Darkstar1Are you limited to CDP only? What about Blu-Ray or SACD players? I owned Marantz CD-5003 and when I moved to the Oppo BDP-83 I found sonic improvements all around in my system. At the $1000 range you could probably get an Oppo BDP-95 o... | |
| Anyone catch news about The Fine Sounds Group? Bifwynne makes good points. I wonder if the new team will shed some brands or maybe trim product lines for each company? From looking at the brands mentioned in the article wouldn't there be overlap or competition between the McIntosh and Audio Re... | |
| Anyone catch news about The Fine Sounds Group? To those who haven't seen this already..http://www.marketwatch.com/story/grange-and-randall-lead-management-buyout-of-fine-sounds-group-in-partnership-with-lbo-france-and-yarpa-2014-05-09"The company headquarters will subsequently relocate to New ... | |
| Apple in Talks to Buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 B I agree with the points above. I think this deal for Apple is about the music streaming business of Beats and how it can help Apple make improvements.I remember years ago trying $300 Beats Pro headphones on an IPod at the time and thinking the sou... | |
| Preamp recommendations for under $600.00 If you don't need a remote and don't mind an older preamp in the $600 or under price range my favorites are the McCormack TLC-1 Passive Preamp and an Accuphase C200.If you need a remote a favorite of mine is the Kavent S-33 preamp. It also goes by... | |
| Schiit Gungnir and redbook cd playback This is what I saw in another forum regarding a user's thoughts on the Schiit Gungnir for redbook CD player only."Both the Benchmark DAC2 and the Schiit Gungnir sounded ever so slightly different than the Bryston BCD-1 player.When sitting in the s... | |
| Pre-Amp for Class D Amp I agree with a tube preamp suggestion to go along with your Class D type amps. I have a budget system and am finding great synergy between a Xiang Sheng 728A preamp along with Red Dragon Audio M1000 Mk1 monoblocks. I had the 728A modified though t... | |
| record store day: missed the CAKE They probably will but the price may hover around $250 to $260 for the set. I checked a popular auction site's completed sold listings for the CAKE LP set mentioned here and the price range was from $210 up to $350. Most sold listings are around t... | |
| BEST AUDIOGON POSTS Any posts Almarg, Viridian or Wolf Garcia. | |
| Class D and Power Cables IME I like the Shunyata Venom 3 power cords for Class D type amps like the Red Dragon M1000s. | |
| Technics SL1200MK2 Cartridge Discussion For my Technics SL1200Mk2 my favorite non MM cart but it is close as it is a High-Output Moving Coil Cart is the Denon Dl-110 on a SH-4 headshell with Nerve Audio Litz headshell wires.My phono preamps that I've used with this are the Bugle2 Phono ... | |
| record store day: missed the CAKE I'm thinking this is just a vicious cycle and the actual diehard fans of the bands who make special releases for Record Store Day gets screwed.The good part is the local record stores that participate get more traffic and sales. Some extra money f... | |
| Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible. I think it depends on how it is done. I've seen some Dared tube preamps and I swear they show all the different tubes but to me with all that shiny gold and chrome it looks kind of blah looking. I've also seen some Yaqin tube buffers or tube phono... | |
| Cullencable: XLR and speaker cables Seamsater969. Your first post here and you are trolling the community right off the bat. Real nice. Check the A'gon archives and you will find your points have been debated at length through the years. The poster of this thread believes Cullen Cab... | |
| Has anyone compare Jolida JD-100 to the new JD-200 There is a member selling a used JD-200 out on Audiogon right now. If no one gets back to you maybe you can send the seller a direct message asking for their thoughts. The JD-200 looks like a tube rollers dream. It takes 6 tubes from what I saw on... |