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| 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... | |
| PS Audio XStream biwire, what are they worth? I've used a similar power strip for years. The cords still seemed to help. I could hear a similar difference with both the mhdt tube DAC in my av system upstairs and with teh mndt SS DAC in my main rig downstairs. Power cords themselves can be a c... | |
| THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE Sounds like the cat's meow.I understand the design motiviation but large expensive Class D amplifiers seem to defeat the primary advantage of Class D amp technology for most, ie lots of drive and muscle in a small, light, reasonable cost package, ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Whoops, I meant that for Ddraudt, not Jafox.Dd seems to attribute EVERYTHING he hears to this product. WHo's to say for sure or not, but that's usually a red flag for me. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Jafox, is it possible that both the product and your perceptions are both changing?Most of us are human and not machines and are hence subject to such things. | |
| High End Tube Gear Transition to High End SS IF you like the tube amp sound but must downsize to an integrated amp, why not a tube integrated?If you are looking for something different or more modern sounding, then a move to SS might yield dividends.What works/sounds best mostly depends on o... | |
| PS Audio XStream biwire, what are they worth? Czar,I recently replaced a stock cord to my mhdt DAC with a Pangea AC14SE and it improved the sound noticeably exactly as advertised I would assume for the reasons advertised having to do with noise control. Cost was very reasonable, < $100. Ni... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz GEoff seems to understand perfectly how colors affect sound but apparently not that there is a proven relationship between electricity and magnetism. Go figure. |