loomisjohnson
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| Receiver/Power Amp Question almost all mainstream avrs benefit from better amplification, since avrs make inevitable compromises in their internal amps. i've added parasound amps (hca 1200 et. al.) to various denon and pioneer elite avrs and found the difference to be night ... | |
| MOG to shut down, replaced by Beats Music i continue to have mixed feelings about beats. perhaps i'm being reactionary, but i don't and probably won't like it as much as mog, which is/was simpler and meatier. beats ui continues to confound--there's too much stimulus and too much effort to... | |
| MOG to shut down, replaced by Beats Music i posted my initial impressions of beats on another thread. i'm still undecided if i'm gonna go with beats or spotify when mog shuts down---i'm impressed with beats sq and depth of catalog but a bit frustrated with their over-busy ui and useless-t... | |
| How To Get The Best Sound From Pandora & Rhapsody? i agree it doesn't make sense to buy a lot of money on expensive gear to listen to pandora or rhapsody--their audio quality just isn't good, esp. as compared to mog or spotify. what surprises me is that pandora, despite its poor sound and very lim... | |
| DV-09 DAC? Dennon integrated DAC? External DAC? i'd venture that your denon avr is the weak link--it's a modest piece which likely won't sound as good for 2ch. as stated above, the dv09 was a totl player in its day, with a high quality dac, and (if you don't need to play cdrs) should still soun... | |
| speakers with Parasound? i did a similar search for a near-wall bookshelf--best i heard (within the realm of reason) was the paradigm s1, which was impervious to placement. the rega rs1 was much cheaper and surprisingly good as well. the focal suggestion is also good. | |
| Amp for klipsch KG4 agree with synthfreek--the hk x30 series is a vg match for klipsch | |
| Why use DAC w/ server equipped w/ one already? the simple answer is that while the olive's internal dac is high-quality and well reviewed, you can always find an external dac that sounds better, as long as you're willing to pay for it. personally, i'd go with the unabetted olive for starters a... | |
| incredible inexpensive speaker you ought tell us what this incredible speaker is.... | |
| Any Boston Acoustic sub fans? I'm currently using a pv700 in a secondary system, which replaced (and improved upon) an older Paradigm. It's a solid piece--fast and musical. It doesn't plumb the depths or call attention to itself like say, a REL, but it's easy to integrate and ... | |
| AVR :2-channel with sub full range: Source Direct i found this, for what it's worth, with respect to denon/marnatz avrs:in DIRECT and PURE DIRECT modes, the receiver bypasses most (or all) of the additional processing circuitry such as Tone Controls (bass/treble) and Bass Management. Theoreticall... | |
| Amp upgrade for Revel M20 speakers jblack, you are correct that the revels are very inefficient and sound better with more juice, esp. at lower volumes. i just saw a harman hk990 on ebay for 999--it's a vg high current integrated and should match well with the revels. | |
| Newest iPhone my kid just got the 5s, and while i've never been an apple person, it really is pretty impressive. most significantly, the processor is blazingly fast--much much faster than the previous iteration--and the camera is noticeably better. the small sc... | |
| R.I.P. Lou Reed brian eno famously said that the velvet underground only sold 30,000 of their first record, but everyone who bought one started a band. works well as a eulogy. as noted above, his solo work is uneven--he made too many records--but still full of cl... | |
| Deciding between Yamaha or Marantz i'm still not clear whether you have two speakers or 5+, but if you're only using two speakers, you're better off with a two channel preamp that the multichannel ones you're looking at. |