loomisjohnson
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| If you had $2000 to upgrade this system... no knock on totem, which i've owned and admired, but your forests are relatively small and limited at the low end--i'd think they only go to 40hz or so--and probably don't throw as big a soundstage as others. i'd look at replacing them with someth... | |
| Next Upgrade Help your speakers are the obvious upgrade candidate. you haven't specified a budget or your listening room, but since you have a monster 200w amp i might look at something that thrives with a lot of power, like revel or dynaudio. | |
| Reference 3A Dulcet or PSB minis for iDecco if you like the imagine minis, the larger imagine b speakers will have more bottom end and cost only a bit more (you can find 'em for less than a grand used). very good, lively r&r speaker. personally, i'm using polk lsi7s in a similar-sized r... | |
| Starting a computer based system i've had a different experience than colorfulpellets--i was unable to get my squeezebox to work properly with just an external hardrive (no computer), as i originally envisioned. (it did work fine with a flash drive or sd card, which contain much ... | |
| Preamp recomendation you can find a cambridge 840 pre within your budget; nice piece and aesthetic and operating match for your cdp. parasound 2100 and arcam fmj (which i'm partial to) seem to meet your criteria. | |
| Opting for no CDP -- only to regret it? i agree that being tethered to the computer and having to rip everything is something of a hassle at times. with the ascendance of computer audio and bluray, you can now get very serviceable older universal disc players--say a denon or integra--fo... | |
| Favourite ECM Titles coincidentally, i just picked up a copy of bennie maupin, jewel in the lotus. incredible piece; avantgarde and accessible at the same time. i've also always like terje rypdal (what comes after being the one to which i usually default). | |
| 2 channel sound in a blu ray player i've had a similar experience as kotta and akg--the oppo is fantastic for video, but for redbook cds my arcam cd73 and even an older rotel rc955 sounded better to my ears. i emphasize that this is purely my own, necessarily subjective opinion and ... | |
| Von Schweikert VR2 or Revel Performa F50 the vr2s are a vg speaker, with a noteworthy low end, but the revels are in another league in terms of overall refinement, detail, etc. (as well they should, since they cost more than twice as much). one proviso is that the revels need a ton of po... | |
| It Might Get Load - documentary good film, though jack white has always struck me as something of a fake--a smart, ambitious guy who's skillfully persuaded the media to give him laurels somewhat disproportionate to his talent. the edge registers as a nice guy who's wholly oblivi... | |
| speaker selection help ... on a budget if you're committed to the uk, within your budget, i'd check out wharfedale diamond 9.2--looks and sounds like a much pricier speaker. per kotta above, tannoy fusion (or mercury) is also good. haven't heard the mordaunt short carnival, but the ear... | |
| under the radio early 80s new wave.... alot of the synth-y 80s stuff is really dated now and i rarely listen to it, but the guitar-based brit bands still sound good to me--echo & the bunnymen, teardrop explodes, psychedelic furs, chameleons. more under the radar, and even better we... | |
| Emotiva amplifiers review/experience? agree with colorfulpellets et. al.--emotiva has tended to be dismissed by the (apparently) uninitiated as "home theater" gear, whatever that means. i have noticed of late that emotiva seems to coming into vogue on these pages--lots of favorable co... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes audioengr, very interesting post with many valid points about the economics of small high-end manufacturers--you're clearly well informed. to be clear, the "only 5% is in the actual electronics" quote is a statement from the mf guy, not my persona... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes The founder of Musical Fidelity, which hawks the $300 giant-killer V-DAC, posited that "most high-end components offer incredibly bad value. . . about four to five percent of the cost of good value high-end electronics is in the actual electronics... |