mahler123
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| CD player reliability.... good and bad. My experience could not be more different than the OP. All my players over the last 35 years have been ultra reliable | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Listening to Jordi Savall Beethoven 1-5 in multichannel. Simply superb. You fall in love all over again | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Ask me. I know everything :-) | |
| Equal $$ for Phono OR Streaming? As others have noted, that is a decent budget. He should be able to get both decent analog and digital. If after a few years he develops a clear preference for one over the other, he can upgrade, but even if he doesn’t he should have decent enou... | |
| NAD T778 AVR That would be my take as well. Look for a multi channel amp to drive as many speakers as possible, and use a budget pre AVR as a pre amp (and possibly to drive rear or ceiling speakers). Then upgrade as funds allow | |
| Is it worthwhile to upgrade an old but quality DAC? Agree. Moses, come to the promised land of modern DACs | |
| Help with upgrade from Marantz 6011 I’d go Anthem, because the room correction will make a major difference. Any AVR without RC will be a lateral move at best. And separates might be a noticeable improvement, but not the same degree as RC | |
| Cambridge CXU Blu-ray Player Kal Rubinson reviewed some multichannel DACs in Stereophile at bit back, the Bryston is two channel only. | |
| Cambridge CXU Blu-ray Player I have a Bryston DAC3, which has 4 HDMI inputs. My SACD and Blu Ray players can output DSD over HDMI, and the Bryston is a fantastic DAC. If your CXU can output DSD over HDMI then that would be a great upgrade | |
| New Anthem AVM 70 and MRX 740 difference in processing I think the Anthem 520 would drive the rear speakers. It should be easy enough to insert the 520 as a Preamp, then reattach the speakers to the 520 and do some comparisons. If you have an Anthem Dealer that will let you borrow the MX 520 for a w... | |
| Cambridge CXU Blu-ray Player I didn’t follow that. Are you using the internal DAC of the Cambridge? | |
| Help! Receiver or preamp? Im overwhelmed... Compare Anthem with Marantz, et. Al...for me, room correction is very important. I am not sure where Marantz, Denon, Rotel are with RC. I would compare Anthem with Yamaha, and I already stated why I had a preference for Anthem | |
| Help! Receiver or preamp? Im overwhelmed... The Anthem MX 520 cost me about $1100 when purchased from my dealer. There may have been a slight price increase in the year since, but it should be close to enough to your budget to justify a little stretch and the advantage of owning a new comp... | |
| Help! Receiver or preamp? Im overwhelmed... The OP asked for help on the receiver/preamp side of things, so I don’t think we should be overloading the response ledger with disc player recommendations. So any, a few observations.1) Budget is important, as others have noted2) Latest HDMI? F... | |
| LG / Netflix - The Center has split Eriki had some glitch in one of my systems when the Apple was not playing through the center channel with Amazon Video. I got Apple to fix it , using CS for the ATV, but it made a very big difference understanding dialog |