joekapahulu
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| Ohm Speakers Model B Dealt with Ohm on multiple occasions. Never a bad experience and that treated me more than fair on upgrades to cabs and drivers and shipping to Hawaii. You don't stay in business 50 years cheating people. I would keep trying to contact them. | |
| Speaker advice for first hi-fi setup - Monitor Audio Gold vs. KEF R series! I have Kef R300s bought 5 years ago. I bought them after side by side listening compared to LS50s for 4-5 hours in a shop. If they changed the amp they ran both speakers thru it. I found 2 key things. First, the R300s had more bass than the LS 50s... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Semi-retired business executive and investor. Started in audio as a high schooler working in a record store in the 70s. Loved music, played guitar, family had a crappy Zenith system. Heard good system at PT job. We stocked the record section for t... | |
| Rogue Audio Cronus ...what speakers do you love ? I am always curious when I read about the CM. I have only heard it once for about an hour at Overture Audio in DE. I thought it was a nice sounding SS amp...problem is its tubes!. I did not get any "tube magic" from it...certainly unlike the MC275... | |
| Van Alstine Integrated Let us know your thoughts once you have listened. I am looking at the control amp but have never seen nor heard one of his pieces. So, it would be blind purchase for me. Be interesting to hear from an owner. | |
| Which integrated amplifier . So very sad to hear of your plight. Had a close friend pass of the same lung cancer 10 years and I miss him all the time. We shared interests in music, audio, computers, food and wine and travel. Best adult friend I ever had. I am familiar with yo... | |
| Wife opened door to build my best ever system...ideas for what it should be? edcyn...Aloha bro. Good to see there is at least one other audiophile out here...we are hidden well. I am up in the mountains so maybe similar weather to Hilo area although we dont get the cool winters and rain like we used. I did the fan and op... | |
| Wife opened door to build my best ever system...ideas for what it should be? Thanks for all the feedback. I think it will be even more challenging to do this after reading all these comments. I have historically preferred separates over integrated amps but probably mostly due to possibly out of date thinking that the integ... | |
| Member Almarg passed away last night Saddened to hear of Als passing. My aloha and condolences to his wife and family. As a newbie to this forum 10 years ago, I had much to learn after being away from audio for decades. Al was always patient, precise, kind and fabulously helpful in e... | |
| SS Integrated amp w/front-mounted 1/8” mini-jack for personal media players ($1~3k range) Outlaw Audio RR2160 receiver has what you want on the front panel and is a pretty good product, maybe better than you expect or want. Its about $1000 direct from Outlaw Audio. I believe it is built by ATI for OA. I have had an ATI amp which is exc... | |
| Looking for upgrade ideas for desktop system If you want a solid higher power amp wiht a small footprint check out the Heed Elixir or the newest Rega Brio. Both are very good sounding amps with reviews online. I have listened to both and found them to punch beyond expectations. If you are lo... | |
| Building a mid(-upper) range stereo with Marantz and Klipsch BTW, I also ahve a Marantz ND8006 CD/streamer in this system and it works very well and sounds very good even on higher bit rate internet streams. So that shoudl help you feel comfortable. Sorry, cant comment on the other piece of gear. | |
| Building a mid(-upper) range stereo with Marantz and Klipsch I have the prior version of that amp the PM8005. It runs a pair of Kef R300s or Ohm Walsh 2-100s. Occasionally, both if I am playing electric guitar along with it. I have never had issues in 5 years and it can play far louder without clipping tha... | |
| Would like advice on upgrading entry level system I have the Marantz pm8005 integrated now the 8006. I demoed with both ls50 and rs300 from kef. It drive it well, cleanly at very good volumes. I got with rs300s which were as good as ls50 with more bass as a 3 way. Been very happy. Good power at 7... | |
| All-in-one: $1k Marantz or $2k Hegel? I don't know for a fact it is active in direct mode. However, I know that with DM tone and balance controls are bypassed but the 2 speaker switches still work. I would expect output to sub to remain. Travel g right now so can't check manual. Btw, ... |