jimmy2615
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| I did the right thing after all. OP, thanks for following up. It’s posts like these I find most useful - giving something a couple years then letting people know your thoughts. Those Cantons are big, impressive speakers, and seem to be a pretty good value. I heard them at a show ... | |
| Preamp for Bryston 4b3 & Tannoy Cheviots I’ve owned the Bryston BP17 and Primaluna Evo400 preamps with Bryston 2.5B3 monos. Assuming the BP19 is similar (house sound?) to the older model, the Bryston preamps have more immediacy and punch to the sound than the Primaluna. If I listened t... | |
| Comparing Aurender N20 vs eversolo dmp A8 You are comparing apples to apples using the USB cable, which will use the clock inside the DAC for both applications. To hear what the N20 is capable of you need to connect the DAC to the N20 via AES or SPDIF. The N20 has superior clocks. If j... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong I’m a big fan of Benchmark. Great products at reasonable prices. I do however have a pair of their speaker cables here. Compared to my Cardas Clear Cygnus speaker cables, they sound dull and lifeless. So I think they should be careful about making... | |
| Wall Art For Music Room Some manufacturers like GIK have a line of wall panels that have artwork on them. WRT the TV I always wondered why some enterprising audiophile didn’t make a simple padded hanging device to fit over the top of the TV with some kind of relatively ... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume I deleted my last two posts because I misunderstood where you were putting the speakers. So many good suggestions already. You can’t go wrong with the Harbeths as mentioned. I would look at Tannoy Eatons also. For low level listening the large... | |
| Anybody else get a NAD M66 yet? I heard back from my dealer who heard back from NAD. WRT the resistor ladder volume control, they said some companies choose to have theirs ‘click’ but ultimately NAD thought some customers might not like it so they deliberately silenced it. Fai... | |
| Bryston Cubed Amps in Bridge Mode @12many I didn’t do enough experimentation to say one way or another that I preferred vertical to horizontal or vice versa. It certainly is more convenient to have one amp close to one speaker and thus used only short cables. But overall or in e... | |
| Bryston Cubed Amps in Bridge Mode I had dual 2.5B3 amps. I found it was hard to find any specs into 4 ohms on them or any Brystons running bridged. Research threads into bridging and they will discuss the downsides of this. Using Revel 228 Be speakers, which have 2 pairs of bin... | |
| Anybody else get a NAD M66 yet? There’s a product manual available now on the M66 page of the NAD website. I was able to get to use about 60-70% of the features listed in the manual, without a manual, so you can tell the product is pretty intuitive in use, for all that it does.... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 in Mono Block Configuration I wouldn’t necessarily categorize the Benchmark as a level below something like Bryston just because it is cheaper. One way to look at it is those accurate electronics (I.e. Benchmark) will allow all the goodness from your front end to come throu... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 in Mono Block Configuration Edit…sorry, I meant your Harbeth C7s, not SHL5s. | |
| Benchmark AHB2 in Mono Block Configuration So you went with the N20 ? Nice! That’s quite a digital front end combination with the MSB. I had Harbeth M40.2 paired with the AHB2 monoblocks. It was by far the best amplification synergy I had with those speakers. I preferred them to a ste... | |
| Anybody else get a NAD M66 yet? After some more trials using the M66 as an analogue preamp using an external DAC and comparing it to the Primaluna (PL) Evo400 preamp, the PL sounds better. Besides the usual tube benefits you would expect (3D soundstage and liquidity), the stan... | |
| Anybody else get a NAD M66 yet? It works. I just tried a USB unpowered drive, plugged it into the back of the unit. The M66 automatically indexed it without me doing anything. About 5 minutes later it became available and playable. The albums show up in your BluOS app on you... |