john_l
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| Help Wanna Buy Amp Tomorrow : ARC VS BAT They are both excellent companies with excellent products. The BAT's you are interested in are quite a bit more expensive than the arc's you compare them to: $16,000 vs $11000. I think the BAT SE equipment is more transparent, but ARC equipment se... | |
| What Speakers ?? Used set of vandersteen 2ce signatures. They usually go for 1100. Great rock and roll speaker with excellent bass. They can play VERY loud too. Additionally you drive them just fine with a receiver and they sound good with entry level high end gear. | |
| Headphones I have the senn 580's. I think overall they are the best I've heard. I do note that they have their drawbacks. They tend to sound a little 'too smooth'. Sometimes they are also a little 'too good' and tend to overpower you with detail. I find that... | |
| Definin' the blues (humor) Spinal Tap does Chicago! &*^*%& hysterical !When I lived in Chicago, I always thought it was funny to see old blues guys like Jimmy Johnson talking on their cell phones during breaks on stage. | |
| PC to ext. DAC? I have done the same thing with my soundblaster card. The high end ($150+) soundblasters have digital outs. Honestly they don't sound all that great, even going through a DAC. I note that I used a long (6 foot) optical cable. I ended up selling th... | |
| Which McCormack I would go with a dna .5 rev/A if you can find one at that price. I've heard the .5 is actually better sounding if you don't need the power. I used to own the 1/reva and I still think it's one of the very best amps out there. Very powerful with a ... | |
| Seeking advice from Maggie owners Hi Don,The magnepans will work wonderfully in your room. In fact your room is near ideal. The only catch is that you will have to bring them out into the room a bit - 3 to six feet. I have mine (which I admit are for sale) 4 feet out into my 20 x ... | |
| Music you might have missed Two wonderful Springsteen albums I have just discovered:1. Badlands, a tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. I like this album as much as the original (can't say anything more positive than that!). This album makes you realize how influential t... | |
| Best wires for a ProAc SPK and ARC AMP Going cheap, I recommend ARC's won i/c's and speaker cable. Really very good stuff. ARC says you have to spend $1000 per i/c to better it. I think this is true. | |
| Advice on Phono Stage I have a ph-3. I don't find it to be bright in any way. In fact I find it to add warmth and smoothness to the system. You might try a pass labs aleph preamp or experiment with cabling. I used to have that combination with the ph-3 and it was quite... | |
| Another music great passes... I am sad to hear of his passing as well. Neck and Neck is one of favorite albums too. Listen to that and you'll know what real virtuoso guitar players sound like. Their talk on 'Money for Nothing' as hysterical. I think I'll get my copy out too. : | |
| Sony DVP-9000es vs. XA-7ES thoughts. One of my friends has the 9000. I think for CD's, my XA7ES sounds better. I liked the levinson 36 DAC that he had before better too. I would be interested to hear what the stan warren (or dan wright) mods can do to these 9000's. | |
| new to tubes, match for spectral amp If you are looking for minimal change, you might try a tube dac to feed the preamp. One of my friends has the full blown spectral/mit system. I loaned him my ARC ph-3 phono preamp (which we connected to his dmc-20), & noticed that it did give ... | |
| gfp-750 ? any comments? good or bad I think the 750 would be a great choice for your given system. I believe it deserves it's class A rating. It is very very quiet, even in active mode. I agree that the pass labs preamp is better, but it's not a world of difference. If you can live ... | |
| Is "WHAT HI-FI" a good read? Wassup ?! British Stereo Review. Lightweight fluff with very little actual analysis of a component's sound. Their focus is British mid-fi. Same stuff their advertising discount mail order houses sell. Their reviews are so generic that I wonder if ... |