jpsreno
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| Looking for suggestions on best small footprint speaker under $4K Modified VanL quartettes from VanL Speakerworks in Chicago area Fit your price range and size considerations perfectly and the sound will be just what you want. I have had many speakers includding Maggie's, quads and martin Logans the modifie... | |
| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? i haven't seen a mention of Cary. Mine are going on 9 years old and not a single issue. Had the pre=-amp modified to accomodate HT bypass and that was carried out flawlessly and supports attention was top notch. My close friend has Cary also ... | |
| Emotiva equipmet, how good is it? in one of my systems I am running a Cary pre-amp into 2 xpa-1 gen 2 Emotiva monoblocks running in Class A (manual or auto switchable) I am biased toward hybrid systems I like the power of SS monoblocks, Very happy with the set-up and the Emotiv... | |
| Affordable integrated pure class A? if you have gathered anything from this discussion thread, it should be that you have to audition the equipment you intend to buy. Over the years, i have heard great sounding Class A amps and some really expensive awful sounding ones. While yo... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) for about $6k a pair modified Van L Quartettes with ribbon tweeters. | |
| How can anyone want more......Just a very happy listener. enjoy the music that's whaat matters ... | |
| best preamps i personally love my Cary and it works equally well with SS or Tube power Amps | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. the Animals cover of House of the Rising SunCream cover of CrossroadsHendrix cover of All along the watchtowerJohnny Winters cover of Highway 61No insult to Bob Dylan on the last two his originals are great but these two covers have always knocked... | |
| For those of us over 60.. I mee the over 60 qualification so, the stones they just seemed to be there at every point ... not always my favorite band but always there and solid throughout the years and stages of my life so far. from Blues to Sympathy to the masterpiece... | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound perhaps you need to define what is natural ... each concert venue has it's own characteristics ... so what are you really shooting for? 3rd row center at Carnegie Hall, first balcony at the Auditorium Theatre, a box at LaScala (old or renovated... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? I saved and saved so my first real system which I took to college included AR 3a speakers, JVC preamp with equalizer, DIY Dynaco Amp, B&O turntable and a Sansui tuner. Then I added micro-acoustic tweeters to the AR's, my friends called them ... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Of course auditioning great high end systems is part of the research, but your enjoyment of the music should be the final arbiter. Spend your time and money going to listen to live music in the best acoustical venues you can find. FOr me ... | |
| Looking for a warm sweet speaker I'm probably Jaded because they fit my musical tastes, Jazz, Rock and Classical: IMHO VanL Speakerworks Quartetrs with all mods, exactly fit your request. | |
| Talk but not walk? I'll probably get chased off this tread but I listen to music, I'm not an engineer, nor am I someone tring to sell anything (as so many seem to be). I listen to music and want to get as close as I can afford, without being overly obtrusive to my ... | |
| Trouble in Fleetwood Mac....... Guess i am giving away my age but to me the real fleetwood mac was a superior blues band that over a decade became a pop band. Saw then 6 or 7 times in clubs and at the acoustically perfect Auditorium Theatre. The first few albums imho had a dept... |