jlamb
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| Building the Best "Used" Budget System under $3000 Rabbit:I have recently done just what you describe. Over the course of the last year, I researched this site and others. I set my sights on the basics first (call it phase one):speakers,amp,source. My budget was $3K, split evenly. Then I waited pa... | |
| Michigan - Any Interest? Greetings All,Located in Plainwell which is 20 minutes north of Kzoo on 131. Have always been interested/obsessed with music but am only recently into 'audiophile' quality systems. System is:Joseph Audio RM7si signature monitorsSimaudio I5 integra... | |
| Digital Amps? Marketing Hype? Thanks for the links Voodoochile! The Spectron site in particular has a good desription of the basic theory underlying their design. In short, the input signal is converted to the digital domain, then amplified; hence the moniker digital amplifier... | |
| Digital Amps? Marketing Hype? My basic electronics are rusty, but as i recall amplifiers were classed by the amount on time they conducted during a single cycle of the input waveform (a sinusoid for simplicity's sake). The term digital implies discrete states,on/off, in this c... | |
| Musical Sub Suggestions thanks all for your great suggestions! | |
| Monitors $1,000 to $2,000? I currently own the previous version of the Joseph (RM7si signatures),of which I an extremely fond. In my setup (Simaudio I5 & Rega Jupiter2000) the imaging/defintion is outstanding, the response impressive for a modestly priced monitor. I tru... | |
| Newbie ?'s for rock guitar:Robin Trower:Bridge of Sighs (remaster) | |
| Tango Recommendation I am not a fan of 'classic' tango, per se; however, I'm a huge fan of Piazolla and his 'new' tango. I highly reccommend the following disks, all excellent recordings:Astor Piazolla on Nonesuch Records: The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night La Ca... | |
| Integrated Amp for Joseph Audio Rm7si MKII Hey Brulee, just curious but what SS gear are you running with the JA RM25si MKII? | |
| Integrated Amp for Joseph Audio Rm7si MKII I recently put together a wonderful system based on the JA RM7si MKI with a Simaudio Moon I5. All pieces bought right here on the gon! Still breaking in cables, but I am extremely pleased with the combination. The caveat with thiscombo is that is ... | |
| CD getting as good as LPs - recommendations Nonesuch, Angel, Teldec, RCA Red Seal, Sony Classics.Enjoy!! | |
| A new ploy for fraud? Excellent explanation Lazarus28! This scam is much more prevelant than you think, and usually originates overseas since it's that much harder to track the perpetrator. One of the TV news magazines (either dateline or 20/20) covered this topic rece... | |
| cable suggestions for new system Gentleman, thanks for your input. The actual IC is Monster 400mkii, the seaker cable is non descript. It came prepackaged as 10 foot lengths, with clear covering and is multistrand which appears to be about 9 AWG equivalent. Not sure what the actu... | |
| Words From the Wise If like music, the catalog to equipment ratio should be at least 3 to 2. This is easy to do even with 'expensive' systems: just get what you want and keep it for years as you ignore the industry induced upgrade hype.Conversely, if you like equipme... |