keithr
Responses from keithr
| Details, details. You want detail, Wadia is the route. | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona Vs. Dynaudio Contour S3.4 My "ideal" setup when I almost bought C2s was a Hovland pre/Krell 400cx. I had 1.3SEs at the time.Krell/Plinius are typical amp matches for Dyns. The latest iterations of the Krell FPBs are not bright to me in the least btw. | |
| Levinson No. 383 v. Musical Fidelity Trivista 300 I like the new VAC Super Avatar...looks fantastic...sounded great at HE2003 | |
| Amp for Nautilus 805 - Krell KAV or Classe cap 101 B&W does not design on Classe amps. They design them on Chord stuff.I believe before that, it was Krell.McIntosh also is typically used with B&Ws. | |
| Power cords for Wadia 861 I bought a Python to test 3 months ago on my 861 (my first aftermarket pc).Big difference to all who have listened...have thought about Anaconda, but not sure if worth the money.KeithR | |
| Best new/demo/used value for $7.5K range I like the used Sophia in your price range, although would swap amps to a BAT 75SE.I also would listen to the Dynaudio C2, several of which have been on a'gon at this price. However, again would switch the Levinson to Krell or Plinius.Levinson and... | |
| Cardas cables FWIW, Jeff uses Cardas cable internally, so best to look elsewhere for help imho. | |
| Which Pre/Pro regardless of $$$ Distortion- which 2 ch preamps did you compare?Re: HTS7.1, my dealer (who does not upsell AT ALL) says the 7.1 is light years better sounding than the showcase. It's all in the discrete output stages apparently, which are based on the KCT preamp. ... | |
| Alternative to Avantgarde Uno? The Solo sounds different than the rest of the AGs, and some may or may not like it. From what I have heard, people who had conventional cone based speakers much prefer the Solo. I love my pair, that is for sure. H ave thought about Unos, but just... | |
| higher end cd player be careful--on my hd cable box, the digital output can't be downrez'd to PCM, so it will output DD 5.1 bitstreams that my Wadia 861 can't decode obviously...I bought an ART Dio for a 100 bucks to convert the analog outs to a digital stream and it ... | |
| Wilson Watt/Puppy 6 or 7 versus Sophia I think the Sophias are superior to the 6s in terms of driver integration, midrange, and top end. While the 6s may be more extended, the tweeter is hot, and the sophia integrates so much better. You give up a bit of bass, but the midrange is what ... | |
| Active Speakers Avantgarde Solos are superb active speakers... | |
| BAT or Lamm The SCD-1 is not truly balanced, so run single ended... | |
| opinion on asl hurricane with horns Victor Khomenko uses 150SEs on Trios to note...and swears by them, and that they are better than any low powered amp. Big disussion on AA about it right now actually... | |
| Hovland hp-100 remote in the future? I was told at the show no performance increase over the HP100, just a different volume control (no more 2db steps) and the remote, killing the phono section.In Hovland tradition, a gorgeous piece btw. Even better looking than the 100. |