karls
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| XA7ES, Miles, Cary 301, ARC CD-1?? Direct to amp.. I also use a Wadia direct into the amp, and very strongly recommend the brand, but most of them are out of your price range. (If you can find a used 830 for under $2k, it's definitely worth stretching your budget. While not as good as Wadia's big ... | |
| Very Basic Tube/SS Pre-AMP/AMP Question Tubes in preamps make a lot more sense than in power amps, so yes it is a good choice, and your particular choices in mfrs are excellent as well, both are at the very top of the game in their respective areas. Tubes excel at signal purity and in k... | |
| Thiel 1.6 vs Proac 1.5 Hmmm, "maximum information" and "minimum listening fatigue" are a tough combination to ask for, at least at this price level. Given that the rest of your system tends toward the analytical already, I would probably avoid the Thiels, they will even... | |
| Electrical current polarity This thread just came through a couple weeks ago. the narrow slot is "hot" (black wire), the wide slot is "neutral" (white wire). There is no such thing as + and - in AC. | |
| neutrik connectors ? I'm not sure which Neutrik connector you're referring to. Neutrik is a company name (www.neutrik.com), and they make dozens of different kinds of audio connectors. The "Speakon" series is most suited to speaker use, and I would recommend the 4-pol... | |
| What is good speaker match for Rowland 112 Amp ??? You're right, the cd player is a big problem. I would recommend attacking that first, then worry about the speakers. Try a Rega Planet 2000 or Jupiter 2000, they are definitely on the warm-not shrilly side. Keep the speakers until you have optimiz... | |
| What is good speaker match for Rowland 112 Amp ??? What's the rest of the system? | |
| Seeking advice re: complex power conditioning I haven't looked seriously at any of them-- while I think it's a great idea, I haven't had the desire or ability to try it. But for someone who telecommutes or has a home business, it could be a perfect solution and a tax writeoff-- you need clean... | |
| Any high power tube integrteds that do well on roc Definitely check out the Rogue. | |
| Seeking advice re: complex power conditioning Yikes, I wouldn't go there unless you live in the middle of nowhere and have a gigantic piece of land to put it on the other side of. Talk about noise, vibration, and stink too! | |
| Seeking advice re: complex power conditioning Thanks Pls1, good post. Re your hydraulic pump, the vast majority of the noise/vibration is coming from the pump side, not the motor (my guess would be on the order of 99%). Like I said, you definitely have to mount this system with isolation moun... | |
| Martin-Logan Descent or Rel Stadium Subwoofer Sugarbrie, in filter design the term "high-pass" refers to a filter which "passes" the "high" frequencies, i.e., blocks out the low frequencies. Similarly, "low-pass" is a filter which blocks out high frequencies. Thus the RELs have no "high-pass"... | |
| Martin-Logan Descent or Rel Stadium Subwoofer I have to respectfully disagree with Gtejr; the stadium III is a major step up from the storm III (which I have owned also) in both extension and authority, giving an overall impression of much greater you-are-thereness. A lot will depend on the s... | |
| Seeking advice re: complex power conditioning The PS Audio unit, as stated above, is a vastly superior solution to any other type of power conditioner. I will throw in another solution equally as expensive and even more demanding of space, but better than all of them put together: A motor-gen... | |
| Martin-Logan Descent or Rel Stadium Subwoofer I don't have any experience with the Descents so can't comment on the comparison. I own a Stadium III and it is a phenomenal sub, but it does not have any adjustment for the high-pass side. Like all RELs, it makes the satellites run full-range wit... |