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| Help: getting around balanced inputs on pre/pro? Ckoffend: sorry for the confusion but you got what I meant. However, it seems some of the best ones I'm looking at, Parasound Halo C2, Proceed AVP2+6, Classe SSP600, and I believe even the Cary Cinema 11 all have ONLY balanced input for their 2 ch... | |
| Best multichannel amp for music? The Plinius Odean is something like 10K used!!! I'd love to have one of those too, but i am in same ballpark as you. Hard to find perfection though. What I'm seeing that may be worth investigating at 2500 or less used:Parasound A51BelCanto evo6Sim... | |
| Will these HT amp/pre/pro's give me 2 chnl bliss? Maineiac, I hear you. What I've decided is I want to give this single-source approach a chance first, if for nothing else than to improve multi-channel sound with the possibility of acheiving close to audiophile 2 chnl SQ. If it doesn't get me whe... | |
| Will these HT amp/pre/pro's give me 2 chnl bliss? Bob, thanks for reply. I've heard mixed things about Integra as respects analogue audio, although this seems to be somewhat overcome by room correction. Otherwise I hear it's a great piece and quite a bargain. I just don't think it's the right one... | |
| EXPERTS: Intg or better amp to improve 2 ch in HT? Interesting. Integrated option leading the charge so far. look forward to more opinions.McFavre4: I'm shocked that the Arcam can compete with the Bryston, Plinius, and the Unison Unico on 2 channel. I looked into Arcam unit briefly online and noti... | |
| Intergrateds: BAT's VK-300X /SE or Simaudio i-7 Sally: I'm watching your various posts with great interest as I too am searching for a good integrated for my B&W nautilus 803's. I'm curious as to what kind of sound characteristics your speakers have generally, and what kind of sound you are... | |
| Best amp for N803 +htm1? ? The 803's and the HTM1 are here!!! Sounds great, but I know I can do better. Jylee, I can't agree with that assessment. The 803's blow away the cdm9nt, and I don't think any amount of front end or amp upgrade can make as much difference as speaker... | |
| Any balanced one end/rca the other interconnects? Yes, I have a set from Audioquest, running from my Apogee mini-dac xlr outputs to the rca inputs on my Acurus DIA100 integrated amp. It seems like it was stock, not custom, as it came in a standard audioquest box. I got it from SoundCity on west 4... | |
| Amp switcher for 2chnl to HT? OK, I get it regarding HT, and I'm sure I can live with the compromise, but I still need clarification on 2 channel. If I'm using pre-outs to integrated for 2 channel music, then I'm double processing. Will this have a significant negative impact,... | |
| Experts: Why is preamp important? French fries: I'm a little slow on the uptick. Who do you mean by "you know who"? Slbenz: your preamp improvement seems to be relative to a HT environment. Did you see equal improvement in 2 chnl sound? I didn't think the MCACC system (and it's eq... | |
| Experts: Why is preamp important? I'm running a somewhat parallel thread in this forum under another heading, but the same issue has now arisen. Am I wrong in my assumption that the pre-outs will contain the rcvr's processed signal? If I run that into another preamp, am I not gett... | |
| Amp switcher for 2chnl to HT? Reubent, sorry, but another dumb question. If I use the pre-outs to an unused input in the integrated, am I not (for lack of a better phrase) "double preamping" the signal? Wouldn't that possibly color/alter the sound somewhat, both in two channel... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Perhaps a naive question from someone technically challenged, but will any of this have an impact on, or improve upon, the performance of pc-based music delivered not by USB but wirelessly, as with a Sonos or Squeezebox? (Oh please, oh please, tel... | |
| Best Sonos ZP-80 Mod? Thanks Barrelchief. So your results are a bit of a mixed bag: definite improvement via the cullen mod, but still not enough to match your cdp's, even when using the same dac (the AA internal dac fed digital from sonos). Perhaps the limitation in r... | |
| Experts: Why is preamp important? Kthomas, you are right, I am asking several questions. I am generally interested in what exactly a preamp does, then I'm more specifically interested in how important it is in my upgrade path. I now have speakers in my HT system that will do justi... |