joe_b
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| best budget integrated amp for rock n roll music? I have heard the ARC Complete with your speakers in a dealer showroom and it was a synergistic match. If you can't do a home audition, this may be a safer option.I also have recently purchased the ARC Complete and like it.However, if you are on a ... | |
| Audiophile beginner with a question... Suggest you skip a separate pre-amp and amp. Get an NAD receiver and use the rest of your budget for the best cd player you can afford. The Rega planet would be a good place to start auditioning. I am using an NAD receiver to drive B&W 602's i... | |
| The Little Tube Amp That Could? Quicksilver makes some nice low powered tube amps that are available used. If you see a Berning EA-230, it may be worth investigating. Also, if you do not want to spend a lot of money, you could get an AMC amp. They are available on Ebay at closeo... | |
| suggestions on under 300 interconnect and speaker cable ? I have the ARC amp and am using Harmonic Tech Interconnects from my Micromega dac to the amp and MIT Terminator 4 or 5(forget the exact model#) speaker cables. If you get the Precision Link ic and a lower priced MIT speaker cable, you should be ab... | |
| CLASSE - Great amps or highly flawed? I have read the same criticisms and wondered myself. So I went out and bought a used DR-8. I had a Four Preamp, which I really liked.The DR-8 didn't sound dark, it didn't sound grainy or textured or euphonic, etc. Basically, like the Four, it seem... | |
| DCM Time Windows I had a pair of what were either 2nd or 3rd generation Time Windows. I'm sorry I sold them as they were a very forgiving, yet enjoyable speaker. I used an RGR Preamp and BRB amp with them. I placed them about a foot from the rear wall. Tried stand... | |
| Any opinions on Classe Preamps? I have a sale pending on my Classe Four so this is not a shameless plug.I purchased my Four as a DR-4. It displaced a Berning TF-10, which was a highly regarded tube preamp and I never missed the Berning.I had the DR-4 upgraded to the Four, which ... | |
| Quicksilver M60 tube instead of Bryston 3b-st Partially will depend on the speakers you will be using. Quicksilvers have few peers in the midrange. Period. They can sound a little fat in the bottom and rolled on top, but that will depend on speakers and cables used with them. They will probab... | |
| Is there anyone who came back from tubes to SS? On an absolute basis, if I had nothing to do but sit between my speakers and listen critically constantly, I prefer the sound of tubes. There is nothing better.On a practical basis, I no longer have this kind of time, and tube equipment requires m... | |
| best integrated for jm Reynaud twins Suggest you audition the Audio Refinement Complete Amp and either Harmonic Tech or MIT cables. | |
| Best SS Integrateds for a 4-500 budget NAD C350-new or if you can stretch a little, a used Audio Refinement Complete. | |
| Favorite Tube Amps, Reasonably Priced AMC makes tube amps which I believe are designed in the UK and made in the far east. Their list prices are not much to get excited about, but their gear seems to be highly discounted, especially on ebay. I could not resist this situation and bough... | |
| Best Integrated 50wpc under 600 used I just downsized my main system from a separate preamp and tube monoblock amps which retailed for about $4K to an Audio Refinement Complete integrated. While the ARC has not burned in yet, I am very impressed with it. The sonic differences between... | |
| Classe' amps The Classe DR-8 I bought developed an intermittant short in one of the channels after a few days use. I think it may be dust in the stereo/mono switch. I brought it back to the dealer and decided to try an Audio Refinement Complete integrated amp.... | |
| What do you choose first SOUND or MUSIC? I have heard some very well recorded "audiophile" recordings of what is just useless noise. Some of it was funny for awhile because the music was just so awful and my wife or friends would make fun of me for buying it.Music comes first. Listen to ... |