johnnyb53
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| Speakers to compliment McIntosh MC452 and MC 205 If you paired that MC452 with a pair of Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage speakers you'd probably never want to leave your house. The SF Strad Homage is their flagship, but any of their Homage or Cremona line should sound wonderful with that amp. My l... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? 12-13-11: AtmasphereYes, excessive loop feedback has been a problem in the past! I concur with the THD wars, but amps built for low TIM back in the early 80s or thereabouts definitely got a bad reputation.Well, audio is certainly a balancing act a... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? 12-12-11: AtmasphereThe 'TIM' amps of the late 70s and early 80s proved to be a dead end. What they proved was that you can go overboard chasing specs to the detriment of the final product.There was a THD (total harmonic distortion) spec war start... | |
| Getting a new table what pre-amp to get 12-11-11: Billybob7088What about a plug in board for my Creek? Anyone have experience with one?Excellent idea. Creek has always been committed to the LP market even when it wasn't fashionable in the mid-'90s. I hadn't noticed you had a Creek integ... | |
| DCM Time Window 7 - AMP & PREAMP 12-10-11: DfgkaliJohnnyb53, I checked out those Heatkits...eh too vintage. I've been thinking about Emotiva's XPA1's, their Flagship monoblocks. Did you specifically check out the AA-1600? There's not a lot to the styling: anodized black faceplate... | |
| Which TOWERs work well CLOSE to the BACK WALL? It seems to me that the best approach would be to get something with an active built-in woofer so you can adjust woofer output to room placement and boundary reinforcement. The Vandersteen 5A is in your price range, has a transmission line loaded ... | |
| Why do you Pick a Certain Speaker producer? I have been a Mirage fan for many years because I like their tonal balance and transparency, but especially I like their omnidirectional dispersion patterns that create a realistic, stable soundstage and the more realistic timbres that come from e... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? 12-11-11: HifihvnJohnnyb53, who do you think made the amp. Heathkit itself probably made the amp parts. It was sold in kit form only, so ultimate the purchaser assembled it. Heathkit had been around since 1912, and had started offering electronics... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? 12-10-11: HifihvnI'm not 100% sure, but I think the "Heathkit" amps from that time frame may have been made by Harman Kardon.Not Harman-Kardon, but Zenith, who acquired Heathkit in 1979, two years before the AA-1600 amp was produced.12-10-11: Orph... | |
| subs for Sonus Faber Cremona M floor standing If you're going to have matching subs, then get *matching subs*. The R505 is possibly discontinued, but is fortunately available for half price at Vanns.com. And if you want the easier blend, get the Velodyne SMS-1. Also, you probably don't need t... | |
| DCM Time Window 7 - AMP & PREAMP I remember the Time Windows fondly. I heard the 1As and the later Time Frames, but never your rare TW7s. I remember TWs as being unusually transparent and balanced, getting panel speaker sound out of cones.Anyway, I think they present a fairly cha... | |
| Getting a new table what pre-amp to get 12-07-11: Audiofeil>>12-06-11: RcccBuy the best table/tonearm you can afford and upgrade the cartridge later....Buy as much pre as you can afford as well. Its importance equals, perhaps surpasses, the table/tonearm.I don't have as much turnt... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? 12-09-11: Orpheus10If you're into "kits", you can also get deep into the "high end" by substituting parts. For example you could substitute better capacitors, of the same value of course; and other parts as well. This would give you a true "high e... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? 12-08-11: Orpheus10I like vintage tuners. In regard to the 180wpc power amp as compared to the very same amp as monoblocks, from a price performance point of view the 180wpc would be the winner; but there's nothing like the 3D soundstage of monobl... | |
| subs for Sonus Faber Cremona M floor standing 12-08-11: Erictye... I am sure SF subwoofer is exceptional. Why is it that over half the reviews out there mate the SF with a Rel sub?Maybe because REL--like SF--is also distributed in the US by Sumiko, and until SF came up with their own sub it w... |