mapman
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| Looking for Integrated Amp for Dynaudio 1.3 MkII's The 1.3 mkIIs can be a touch hot sounding on the top end with some amps and are a tad towards the warm side of sound overall.That and their appetite for juice makes Class D amps a very good option.Toe out/indirect tweeter orientation can be used i... | |
| Looking for Integrated Amp for Dynaudio 1.3 MkII's Yes, they like lots of SS juice. Icepower works well with these Dyns. The Wyred integrated is where I would probably look as well. | |
| What's more important: phono stage or amp Always address the weakest link in order to maximize value. | |
| Having an ear for Jazz Always liked it. Watching Ken Burn's Jazz series when it ran on PBS took my appreciation to a higher level. | |
| In the under $2500 category, diminishing returns? rogue cronus tube amp mates well with mmg and is in your general range and a good value. add a sublater if needed and you have a pretty sweet rig. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? OHm sold me as a salesperson at Tech Hifi where I had access to many speakers, but the OHMs were always the best sounding to me at almost any common price point back then.I started with OHM Ls and graduated to Walsh 2s around 1982 or so after. Mag... | |
| OK, now I know about Audio Note dacs.... Anyone ever compared an Audio Note DAC with an mhdt Constantine? | |
| Anyone using Squeezebox server on Mac OS X? I use it on WIndows.Had some issues after upgrading this past week to the latest published version.Artwork for .wav files stopped loading. I had to upgrade to a more recent beta release to get this new bug fixed.Also they dropped the handheld skin... | |
| Why do no audio enthusiasts use McIntosh? Many do and most are probably content and have no desire to explore other horizons. | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? mhdt Constantine DAC.I'm not sure what more one could expect from a DAC than this delivers, short of jumping perhaps into the big buck DCS gear. | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? I lot of stuff is "stupid good" when set up properly in properly set up and well matched system.The exact same stuff may sound "stupid bad" otherwise. | |
| Squeezebox touch sounds better than benchmark dac1 I have not tried the Touch's built in DAC in my system yet.Its on my list of things to do... | |
| Great films where music is a central theme. "one Trick Pony" is one I have never seen but need to. | |
| Squeezebox touch sounds better than benchmark dac1 I went with an mhdt Constantine for lower cost than Benchmark a couple of years back and have not looked back. I use it with SB Touch, Roku Soundbridge prior, and my Denon player/recorder on occasion.The sound quality is consistent and absolute to... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? In my first real component audio system, I had a pair of Lafayette Criterion short floorstanders with HEil tweeter in an all Lafayette system built around a 40 watt integrated (I worked at Lafayette at the time as a poor college kid and got a good... |