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marakanetz

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?'s about quality of audiophile recordings
Even with cheap cartridge the differences are not to be neglected. In most cases these recordings do sound superior but in some cases not worth extra investment. 
Are horn speaker colored or more open and dynamic?
pure horn gives you nothing except voice.i listened to Avantgarde Unos and they were on the list of the first horn system i liked. still would realy never stand them against good dynamic speakers for sure... 
Is my DAC fried,cooked or what,help
change tube first to see what's going on. 
What early 70's rock bands had violins?
I also consider Kronos Quartet as pure violin rock... 
Nightmare
Let it be your the worst nightmare. 
What early 70's rock bands had violins?
Can in album "Soon Over Babalooma". 
Pathos Classic One with Aerial 7's?
Yep,You'll simply waste'm. 
Totem Winds are Too Bright
2chnlben,I found very pleasant to run my Forets with above 300Wpc per side.I guess to realy feel Winds it has to be in 500Wpc range.Biamping with 45Wpc tube amp may lead the system out of tonal balance.I currently biamp with VTL MB100 on the top a... 
watts per channel when biamping
I biamp with completely different amps with no external crossover.For bottom end I use Sunfire Symphonic Ref and for the top end I use VTL MB100.VTL has sensitivity 30% larger than Sunfire but Sunfire has substantially(20%) larger gain than VTL.I ... 
Whats the krell sound?
Love sound and hate price. 
Impedance Question: Tube Preamp with SS Power Amp
Sonic Frontiers preamps have output impedance almost the same as SS preamps. Same with AudioResearch ones. 
Totem Winds are Too Bright
WINDS WITH 45/CH TUBE AMP???YO GOTTA BE KIDDIN' DUDE!Figure 200Wpc at least. 
White Stripes...
Thanks folks!Honestly,The White Stripes is one of the least contemporary rock band that attracted my attention since my favourite 80's Talking Heads era... 
High End Myth Glossary.
Themadmilkman,Why d'u think many audiophiles love to have active preamp v.s. passive?The answer is due to extra feedback to feed more linear signal onto the amp. 
suggestions on preamp
The best one is the one that best matches poweramp.I personally like McCormack preamps. You could use them with high sencitiviy poweramps since they're either passive or have a very low gain. In this situation you get maximum transperency.