mahandave
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| How long should vinyl last? Will last longer than cd's so not a concern. | |
| Tube Equipment: Gimmick? There's great tube gear and great solid state gear. There is also bad tube gear and bad solid state gear. Your taste in music/volume/room will absolutly dictate the type of equipment you prefer. Unfortunately, you need to educate yourself by liste... | |
| MF dac and reference players I agree with the previous post, If you like the MF sound, get the Tri-vista and a rega and save a lot of money and still be totally competitive with the mega buck players. | |
| Blown Linn AV5140 tweeters? Yup, it happened to me right before my eyes at the dealers show room. The volume has nothing to do with what happened. Somehow, a short occured in the upstream components ( both went out at the same time so you can x out the idea of a speaker wire... | |
| flat speaker quandary Just wanted to mention that they might not be broken in yet and if they take as long as Magnepan speakers that might not be for 500 hours! So I advise not to even think about it until then. Martin Logan owners can tell you how long they take to br... | |
| Which amp is best to drive Magneplanar 1.6's? BelCanto is a great match! | |
| The Truth About Preamps You have to absolutly get one thing straight first. Price is the only issue when choosing between using a preamp and not using a preamp period, end of story. The better 8 grand and up preamps absolutly blow away any passive/direct to amp set-up in... | |
| Maggies on my mind. Levinson/proceed don't go well with maggies at all! I allways here what you are describing with that combo. Now stop talking about maggies- I'm currently trying to restrain from listening to them again and save some money. | |
| tubes with thiel, meadowlark or revel Ok, I hate to add to the list when the post is specificly asking about certian speakers, but I must just this once, sorry. Magnapan 1.6 and the VTL amps would be unbelievable and the Maggies cost about 1700 new. Some speakers work better with tube... | |
| First Sound Presence and Rogue 99 Two good choices but totally on opposite ends of the spectrum sonicly. The First Sound is like a solid state pre minus the hash and ss nasties. Rouge is like Conrad Johnson- full of bloom and lush. Both are great and both are great build quality. ... | |
| Quality Redbook CDP - Your Advice Needed Please I am currently in the market for a cdp in the under 8k range. My thoughts on all of the top single box players goes as this: Electrocompaniet(price is doubled in the US = not a good value but on top of that, the build is very bad. The cd clamp is ... | |
| Merlin VSM-M or JM Lab Mini Utopia Think for a moment, One brand is hand made by 2 people taking weeks if not months to perfect each individual aspect of the speaker. The result is attention to detail that is second to none! The design of the speaker is so successful that the entir... | |
| Vote for the Best Preamp: Audion, Jadis, ARC or CJ OK, I just auditioned a plinius with an AyreK1x and it was very good. I susspect that CJ,ARC would be great also but it is more a matter of taste than one being better than the other- just keep in mind that all you can do is listen, get a short li... | |
| Is "live" music sound possible for under $1K I like to respond to questions like this because I wish I was sane again and thinking systems below a grand brings back memories before the insanity began. No live is not possable as stated above but here is the help you are looking for- at this p... | |
| Preamps, Whats the difference, Active & Passive ? Just a thought here about the endless debate over whether to go active or passive. I have found that even a cheap creek passive can sound great in the right system and that a $1,000.00 placette can sound bad in a missmatch situation. I have just a... |