kalali
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| Big Krells Have Vanished From The Used Market They become boat anchor because most owners find them too expensive to repair or rebuild. Others, pay up and keep them for bragging rights. | |
| New Mcintosh C-22 Don’t understand; vintage styling and updated technology. Someone upgraded a vintage C22 with modern components? I’m just intrigued.Edited. Looks like it was relaunched by McIntosh. Interesting. | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? Certainly from "rear ported" since they seem to work better away from rear walls. Sealed box would be another good option. I'd still think a single driver full-range is a great choice, particularly for near field listening position. | |
| Amps/Pre-amps for Sopra 3 or Salon 2 I've heard Salon2 paired with Mark Levinson - current but not sure which model, and McIntosh MC601 amplifiers and to my ears the McIntosh combo sounded much more dynamic with much bigger soundstage. Everything else was constant during this demo. I... | |
| Any GON members ever try Mye stands on MG-20/20.1? I'm guessing after 9 years he probably has already made up his mind.... | |
| What amp do you use with your passive pre? The wording is usually something like "at rated full power". You could directly drive most of the amplifiers in the market with a 3 volt output from your DAC. | |
| value of JBL L-65? You're welcome. With the exception of a few special models, and either as a rule of thumb or just by coincidence, you can figure on recouping the original retail price or may be slightly more depending on location, when selling most vintage JBL sp... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple I personally don't have a problem with dealers posting here as long as their input is objectively their opinion or experience. The dealers generally have a much broader exposure to different brands and models so it would be counterintuitive to not... | |
| Looking for CD player recommendations that are a great match with Classe & Vandersteen I haven't personally ever considered "matching" a CD player with the rest of my system as I always thought a good sounding CDP will sound good in any system. But that aside, I just saw a real good sale price on the Teac CD-1000 SACD/CD player at t... | |
| value of JBL L-65? I don't know about L65s but I have a pair of L100s and a pair of L40s that I also bought new in 1976 and 1977 respectively, and I do occasionally surf the market to see their worth. I have seen L100s in perfect shape bring as much as $700-$800 and... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple Just as another option, you may want to look into the single driver full range speakers the likes of Omega or Decware. I've only heard a couple of their models like the Decware DNA and Omega 3XRS and the vocals sounded incredible. They need very l... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple Is the ceiling 6' only where the speakers will be placed or the entire room? | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? I've had mixed experience with or without a preamp in the couple of systems I have, albeit neither I'd consider as high end, and I am now convinced the results are completely component dependent, more specifically the matching of the impedance va... | |
| Surge protection for amps? Does anyone have access to any objective measurements showing surge protectors and/or power conditioners actually degrade the sound quality? There are also different approaches used in designing these components so some may be better than others. | |
| Does anyone notice a reduction in sound quality when a tuner is part of ther audio chain? I understand the noise from televisions, particularly plasma design, etc., affecting the signal but haven’t experienced any difference when using the CDP with or without my Node2 streamer on or off. Maybe its because I have set the Node2 several f... |