kurt_tank
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| Eating-up cheap dvd players My advice: Keep buying crap.I have gone through two really high end dvd players (One, an $800 mitsubishi and the other a $1,500 Sony) and both started out fine, but after a year or two, each one started having problems. And yes, I too have a littl... | |
| Audience Au24 in Bi-wire configuration? Oz,Congrats on getting the cables!I am sure you will enjoy them, as I have.I have no plans on upgrading these wires either.(Well, not for a really long time anyway.)(BTW, regardless of what John thinks, IMHO, some speakers simply sound better bi-w... | |
| Audience Au24 in Bi-wire configuration? Yeah, I bought two pairs of used 2.0m AU24 as well. One from a friend, and one from a guy on Audiogon. (I lucked out that I managed to find two the exact same length, although 2m seems to be a pretty popular length. Together the price was about $9... | |
| Audience Au24 in Bi-wire configuration? Why not simply have two identical runs?(That is what I have done with my Revel Studios, and I am extremely happy with the results.) | |
| Aesthetix Calypso -vs- Ayre K-1Xe preamps? Well, since you have gotten zip in the way of input, I will give you my "impressions" of the differences. (FYI, I have the Ayre K-1XE, and I love it.) Please note this comparision is based upon my friend's Aesthetix Rhea phono preamp, not the Caly... | |
| New Cartridge choice Well, I will give you what experience I have with both the Koetsu Rosewood Signature and the Shelter 90X.(I have owned both and used both for significant amounts of time.) Plus my friend now has the Rosewood Signature Platinum.I agree, that the Ko... | |
| Recommended speakers around $10K used I own and can recommend the Revel Studio speakers, as they are very good and a nearly full range speaker. (They have good treble extension, and the mid-range is quite good, and it has deep bass response, albeit not a deep as the Salon though.) The... | |
| What new gear will you be buying this year? Nothing.I promised the wife that I would hold off buying anymore stereo gear until 2007, since I bought so much equipment in the past few years. (I still need to pay off the Lamm M2.1s, so I feel it was worth making this promise, since she let me ... | |
| Need help with preamp purchase Chadaudio816,I have no clue either whether the Ayre K-1XE would mate well with the H2Os either. I have used a Levinson No. 23 (solid state amp) with it and now the Lamm M2.1s (hybrid amp) and they both sound great, (especially the M2.1s, since the... | |
| Need help with preamp purchase I highly recommend the Ayre K-1XE.It has 3 balanced and 3 single ended inputs.It has an optional remote.(Note the remote only controls volume and mute, but that works fine for me.)It has optional phono boards that are very, very good.Check the rev... | |
| Best power amp below US $ 20.000,00 ?? I highly recommend the Lamm hybrid amplifiers.My friend, who has the Avalon Eidolons, went through many amplifiers trying to find the best.He tried the following amps:Classe CA-401, Kora Cosmos, BAT 150s (non-SE version), Manley Neoclassic 250s, V... | |
| certin speaker makers harder to get dissounts fro There is another answer to your dilemma: Buy them used.In looking here on Audiogon, there are dozens of used Martin Logan speakers. If you can't get the entire package here, you might be able to at least get some or most of them used, and then lim... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines Based on my research, from reading tons of opinions here and on Audio Asylum (and I suggest you research it yourself and come to your own conclusions!), but the differences, in my mind, are:The NG and the VPI basically use the same technology, (i.... | |
| Music Your Wife Will Really LISTEN To with you ? First off, I should state that my wife is into music more than most women, especially women her age, which shall we say is middle aged. (I guess I won't get castrated for saying that! I hope anyway!)She is particularly fond of:The Dave Matthews Ba... | |
| Best vale for money CD Player in $2000-3000 price I agree with Itsalldark, that if you can find a used Capitole II for $3,000, jump on it immediately. (I doubt you will though, as they tend to go closer to $4K, but maybe you have a source already!)A good second choice would be a Resolution Audio ... |