loomisjohnson
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| Deciding between Yamaha or Marantz are you doing a two-channel system or a multichannel system? | |
| Building a Magnepan System, Please Help... jrodefield, this may not be helpful, but if i were you instead of the 1.7s i'd drop $2500 on some used 3.6s, which are on a wholly different level. you can get an emotiva xda2 dac/preamp for 300 (like elevick suggests) and maybe get lucky on a use... | |
| Critique my system... since you asked---i'd probably experiment with a different cdp (or add a dac); not that price is any precise indicator of sound quality, but it looks like your amp/pre are in a different weight class than the cdp. a tube cdp like jolida, vincent, ... | |
| Badfinger, perfect end for Breaking Bad baby blue is arguably the greatest power pop song of all time; aimee mann's version is, to my ears, even better than the original. i just read that according to billboard, after the breaking bad finale, streams of the song increased by 9000% and t... | |
| Anyone here have a memory ? 40 years later, porgy and mudhead are still indelibly etched in my cranium | |
| Best beer i just got into the craft beer thing (i needed some new bad habits) and here's my take:1. once you get into the microbrews, it's unfathomable you'd ever drink another miller or corona. even the premium mass market stuff like heineken and stella ta... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Chicago II--like most fair-minded music lovers, I've generally regarded their seemingly endless output as the clearest example of cultural decay. I've concluded, however, that this album is something of a masterpiece--in contrast to the AOR drivel... | |
| Best sounding Hybrid Integrated in $2000 range vincent? | |
| Affordable DAC for iPhone 5? look at the fiio e17 ($130 on amazon) which is a portable headphone amp/dac. quite an improvement over the stock phone and has the advantage of mobility. | |
| Vintage 80s speakers...retro system...your pick? +1 schubert. phase tech vg. | |
| B&K surround model AVR-507 i'll try to decipher your questions:1. the DB level setting is useful for equalizing the volume of all your sources (e.g. so your cdp doesn't sound louder than your cable at the same volume level)--i'd just set it at whatever levels sound good to ... | |
| Preamp 101 i'd look at something like the parasound p7, which would be a good match for your amp. | |
| Preamp 101 1. if the preamp you're looking at doesn't have an inboard phono preamp, then you would need a separate phono preamp. you're probably best served getting a preamp with a phono input--if you specify a budget you'll get many recommendations.2. you d... | |
| Jm lab chorus 715 vs 725 and psb silver stratus??? you won't get a ton of low end out of the focals--they're rated only in the high 40s. the psbs will go lower; however, since you like your bookshelves, i would keep them and augment them with a sub--you can something like a hsu or a paradigm can b... | |
| Why do some audiophiles beat up McIntosh? i think an underlying principle of all snobbery is that if something (whether it's audio, wine or movies) is very popular, it can't be very good. i also suspect that many have an innate bias against gear which emphasizes aesthetics and form--perha... |