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| Quad 22L2 I liked them when I heard them, at least at moderate volumes, and thought them to be a product I could live with in teh right application. I would agree that they had a distinctive sound, perhaps not as physically damped an enclosure as many moder... | |
| How Things Change Since there is little concrete right or wrong in audio, it is hard to be purely misguided other than in the sense that we all learn about new things and options as time goes on. More knowledge means more choices, more choices means better results ... | |
| What makes Telefunken tubes sound better? It's a good question. | |
| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th I think I spoke with him once at SBS. SBS was a cool place, at least when the gear on display was working properly. There were some nice sales guys there. | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? Good stuff!!! | |
| SPEAKER SUGGESTIONS I'm very familiar with the Sennheiser sound over the years. Have heard the 650s. I currently have a half dozen or so phones (2 Sennheiser) and same # of speakers.OHM Walsh speaker sound and Sennheiser phones have similarities in regards to coheren... | |
| how much did you ever spend on a cable? $350 for 2 12' Audioquest Cv6 speaker wires.$200 for a pair of .5m Harmonic Tech ICs. | |
| THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE Nice looking product. Seems like NAD continues to really try hard these days to bring high value products with forward thinking technology and design to market. I like that! | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "So now I'm praying for the end of timeTo hurry up and arrive'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with youI don't think that I can really surviveI'll never break my promise or forget my vowBut God only knows what I can do right nowI'm praying fo... | |
| THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE Guido,No doubt. It's hard for me to perceive what more I might ask for, but I know the technology continues to improve and evolve and teh Icepower modules used in the ref1000m in particular are several years old at this point. Give me the latest t... | |
| THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE "And if my quick impressions of the whole prototype last year are any indications.... It is a pretty fine sounding system."I hope there is some trickle down into a next generation of BC Class D amp products that offer similar or perhaps even bette... | |
| How many pair of speakers do you own? 6 pair currently up and running.1 pair (Boston A40s) sitting idle and awaiting an eventual rebuild. | |
| Best Amp for $300 to Power Paradigm Monitor 9s I had a Carver m4.0t 360w/ch into 8ohm for many years. Sold it used for just over $300. Very nice amp with tube amp like transfer function. I think this was the CJ emulator model, don't recall exactly. WOrked quite well with Magnepans I used with ... | |
| Best Amp for $300 to Power Paradigm Monitor 9s They use those Crowns for exercise classes at my Gym along with four high corner mounted high efficiency pro horn loaded speakers (forget the make) at my gym. I hear them for a hour or so almost everyday. Acoustics in those rooms are the pits thou... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz "Geoff, I must apologize for the Troll invasion on this thread. They will be gone soon. as suggested in an earlier post, don't bother reading anything from Mapman, Jafox or Jmcgrogan2 as they don't have or don't care about audio systems and are ju... |