kalan
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| Hovland HP-100 vs. CAT SL1 Ultimate: Feedback Verybigamp/Romy: If the kinds of pre-amps we've been discussing are easily dismissed as so much "...mass-market black boxes 'for kids'." or "...typical Audiogon's coca-cola.", what is your solution to pre-amplification?You make provocative stateme... | |
| Hovland HP-100 vs. CAT SL1 Ultimate: Feedback Musicluvr: Yes, the Cary SLAM-100's have a high sensitivity: .75v. And yes, the CAT was very in my face. I wrote to CAT some time ago about my experience and asked about possible ways to match the CAT and the SLAM-100 to each other better: no resp... | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. Anyone: At what junction would you place your best interconnect? If you had only one superior pair of interconnects and one serviceable pair of interconnects on hand, and you had to choose to place them between your front-end and the pre-amp or be... | |
| Hovland HP-100 vs. CAT SL1 Ultimate: Feedback I just spent two days with a CAT Ultimate. The 26 dB gain in the line stage turned out to be too much for my system (Cary SLAM-100's power amps: 95 triode push/pull watts [don't have input spec's handy]). I think CAT provides some resistors to red... | |
| Hovland HP-100 vs. CAT SL1 Ultimate: Feedback Musicluvr, The relatively low gain of the HP-100 line stage is a concern. Some of the amps I would like to audition favor high gain pre's. | |
| Hovland HP-100 vs. CAT SL1 Ultimate: Feedback jmsoul, What did you prefer about the CAT, or did not like about the HP-100? | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. Speakers make a huge difference in the sound when you change from speaker to speaker, but that doesn't necessarily make them the most critical link in the chain. I heard a system whose emphasis was on big, expensive speakers and amps but down-play... | |
| Musical Fidelity Experts needed.. At a shop in Vancouver, BC, I spent some time with the CDP/pre-amp combined on one chassis (called CD-24 [?]) and the new Tri-Vista integrated. This fed a pair of Sonus Farber Homage floor standers and a sub. Apparently, the Tri-Vista amp was new-... | |
| How much does your system retail for? ~ $28k retail. Paid ~ $16k. Includes vinyl front end, transport/DAC, tubed pre- and power amps, speakers, all cabling, stand, after-market power cords, two 20-amp dedicated circuits and audio-nerd receptacles.Don't do Home Theater, yet. Thank good... | |
| ONE shot to show off your System's Stuff Classic Records' single sided 45 of Saint Saens' Dance of the Marionette (theme from the Alfred Hitchcock TV show) from the RCA recording of Opera themes of Gounod (Faust) and Bizet (Carmen). | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? Just because Thiels, Triangles, and (I'll add) Chapman T-7s might all be bright, does not mean the B&W Nautilus 803's are not bright. All four could be bright. Some manufacturers seem to favor a bright-ish presentation. Brightness and detail d... | |
| Looking for the right interconnect Ohlala; Sorry, I have not heard the Music Metre Canto. Have you? If so, did you like it? | |
| Looking for the right interconnect Look out for Harmonic Technology, Truth Link at deep, used discounts. Also used Coincident Speaker Technology IC. A real bargain if you can locate it is the older version of the Music Metre, Calibre in the gray jackets. Do no bother with the last ... | |
| Thank You Audiogon. Paulg805, OK, I HAVE to know what Seattle audio store you walked into where you were told that $5,000 would get you only a single component rather than an entire system. (We can take this "off line" if you want.)I can make a guess as to what shop ... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? OK, I promised to go out and listen to both Naim and Linn systems. I heard a NAIM system whose retail cost is about $11,000 and a Linn one of about the same cost on the same day within minutes of each other with the same music material. The Naim s... |