lwood
Responses from lwood
| Good DAC for multiple sources Try the MUSILAND MD 10, $300 and it upsamples to 176.4, and has dual digital filter for both video and audio. L'wood | |
| CD player reccomendations please Eastern Electric MiniMax cdp, does HDCD as well...very easy to tube roll. L'wood | |
| Tuners which one is better ? Bob, go to tunerinfocenter.com and you can spend the next week looking at tuners. TIC says the Marantz is an ok modern tuner, and nobody knows anything about the Parasound...probably meaning it's not worth the bother, but hey, for $26 may be a bar... | |
| Trend TA-10 Review Nice review. I concur, yet am only running one unit using First Horn's--high efficiency.I found the same results with speaker cables. Started with zipcord and it was thin. Moved to Audioquest (red one's) and it didn't improve much. Then went to th... | |
| Help CDP over vinyl upgrade advice please Any DIY capabilities? If so, then you can mod many. I would suggest a good transport and then go for a DAC. Many are hot for the Cambridge Audio 840. I like the Eastern Electric MiniMax CDP with tube output; I also use the Arcam CD73, which you ca... | |
| Review: Musical Fidelity X-RAY CD Player I hope the first version is better than the V3. Mine spent more time in the shop than listening too, and was very, very harsh. Swapped interconnects and power cords to no avail. Tube or SS amplification and preamplification made no difference...cl... | |
| Speaker Tilt Back benefits? The Mapleshade speaker stands utilize a tilt, and the stands are really a misnomer as they are a few inches off the floor. When used with the Reference 3A de Capo i's this improved the bass response and soundstage and the sound just got better fro... | |
| HT Receiver or High end integrated for music?? You'll be throwing your money away on an HT receiver and be right back here buying an integrated...and selling the HT component...trust me, I've been there, done that, and don't have the t-shirt.The Arcam Diva series integrated's offer a wonderful... | |
| your favorite music 7 responses and no Springsteen...what's this world coming to?No particular order...Los Lobos (the best LIVE rock band, bar none)Shirley HornStan GetzMilesJohn HiattDiana ReevesGuy ClarkLyle LovettVan Morrison - not the hitsEva CassidyBill EvansEmm... | |
| The proverbial "giant killer" Tvad's on the money, buy used...buy new and for the most part it won't appreciate will it? Buy a used piece after some research and even if you don't like it you can usually sell it for same or near.Concerning China, I've bought a Chinese integrat... | |
| Review: Arcam CD 73 CD Player Nice review and I couldn't agree more. Having run through the aforementioned Rotel and NAD, and the Musical Fidelity X-Ray, it was far and away the winner. What it couldn't beat was an Eastern Electric MiniMax CDP, but that one's a tube output job... | |
| Newbie needs to make a decision, Rogue? Manley? I would suggest the Eastern Electric M520 tube integrated. I picked one up a year ago, about a $1k used, spent another $500 for tubes, and am very happy with the sonics. It runs in pentode or ultralinear, EL34's. I have used Reference 3A de Capo i... | |
| Adding tube buffer to Rotel instead of............ NO!! I had the Musical Fidelity's latest buffer before I went with tubes and it will not come close to the SF 1, IMHO....but those are my ears. | |
| What bests the Consonance Droplet Eastern Electric's tube cdp with a a few mods will blow it away...don't forget to tube roll as well. And you'll have some cash left over. L'wood | |
| Magnum Dynalab MD - 108 I've always been curious why M/D's lead the pack in the classifieds for sale--are they really that good if owners want to dump them so often? |