john_l
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| components in your system My eleven year old Denon 1025 125watt receiver. It sold new for $1000 and is 2 channel only. It's probably worth all of $150 on the used market, but still sounds pretty good, has a great tuner, and makes a nice front end to my TV & DVD player.... | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... Tom: To my knowledge, the Aleph 3,5, 4, 2, and 1.2 all use 2 gain stages. The 0 and 0s used three. | |
| Wha'choo lookin' at? My feet. | |
| What do you guys think of Spectral? One of my friends has this stuff. Probably the most precise and highly detailed equipment I have every heard. Spectral and Pass Labs are on their own cloud in this respect. A little cool sounding but I guess that's an artifact of the precision. I ... | |
| Who 'won' the show at CES Hey Albert: I talked with ARC yesterday. They mentioned that the van 5's were actually richard vandersteen's personal set. They couldn't get a set in time. Nice guy! The ARC guy said that they were using some 'blue' audioquest cables. I know the d... | |
| If you had to make this decision.... I would try and find a tube preamp if you can. I had the 1.6's, and they greatly favored tubes to solid state - at least with an amp. I know the ref 2 has a processor loop. I've heard the vk30SE and thought it was awesome. | |
| Vinyl Newbie, please help... On the bat 3 series, the phono stage is optional. I would open the case and try to see if there is a card that say's phono that appears to be an add-on. You should look in your manual or somewhere on the preamp (even on the circuit board) to see i... | |
| High on Thier List, But Low on Yours hey Trelja. VTL actually makes me feel 'chilled' when I listen to it, but I like the ARC stuff. I guess it's splitting hairs. ARC equipment is very accurate, but it does have a warmth to it. I find that using my arc phono stage with my arc amp, I ... | |
| Moderately priced phono preamps I've heard the black cube. It wasn't lacking for much of anything. Excellent sound. Very detailed and almost 'sweet' sounding. A nice ergonomic consideration is that it does not require it's own shelf. | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... Oddly enough I own both the vt100m2 and the 100watt pass aleph 2 monoblocks. I never really decided that I liked one better than the other. The aleph 2's are the clearest and most detailed amplifiers I have ever heard. they sound like they take le... | |
| Best Zip Code for Perfect Life Yeah Timberline is way cool to go hang out. You know that's where they filmed the shining ! I've stayed there at christmas time before. They bring out a sleigh and reindeer. I usually go to Timberline with people who like to ski 'just a little', s... | |
| High on Thier List, But Low on Yours I think krell amps are very harsh and mechanical sounding. This is compared to pass labs, spectral, and hotrod mccormack amps. I can't stand VTL amps. I understand why some people would like them - the cool, neutral, detailed sound. To me they are... | |
| Sub for monster BASS!!!!!! I think www.audioadvisor.com sells bag end. | |
| More power? I have driven my AP virgo's with a variety of amps. I found that adding power definitely increased the bass response. You can also decide to sacrifice imaging by placing them near the rear wall - that will increase the bass quite a bit. I am drivi... | |
| Best Zip Code for Perfect Life Hey Axomoxa Powells is doing well as usual. They actually broke it into two bookstores - a technical bookstore that's 3 blocks away, and the main 'nerd-free' store. It's much bigger than it used to be. Now it takes up the whole city block, has a c... |