marakanetz

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Best power for 10,000
If you've got $9000 for Klimax all you should do is spend another $1000 for Placette passive preamp. 
Looking for a cd source for my system.
The most versatile and the best-valued so-far in my list is Gamut CD1. 
Converting to Analog
I believe that analogue reproduction is always according to the price you're investing. To get the sound level for $10k you must either spend $10k or acquire it used for less. 
LATIN Guitar ??
Gipsy Kings,Paco De Lucia,Emanuel Baruecco -- classical latin guitar of composers such as Hektor Villa Lobos, Leo Brouer.Vince Mendoza/Arif Mardin project Jazzpan'a featuring Los Joven'os Flamencos with WDR big band. 
Digital amp beat them all? Audio Physic Strada .
Hmmm... What I believe is that what TACT unit accommodates in one box isn't necessary to the vast consumer and that makes this unit overpriced (please forgive me in re-directing this discussion). There are some consumers that don't want built-in D... 
Differences between MM or MC/Recommendations?
In your situation it would be more reasonable to spend only half of your budget for the cartridge and the other half to place either inside the pocket or upgrade the phono stage.EAR 834P, Trichord Delphini, Trichord Dino and also Benz PP1 is on my... 
Are "Professional Grade" CD players good?
Satch, you cannot say it about Tandberg that accommodates immunity to abuses along with ability to reproduce with audiofile quality. 
Thoughts on Manley Stingray?
I'm thinking about mono-block version of Manley Stingray but I do not remember the model name. I'm wishing to use them to biamp for upper and mids. Sparks should not create a problem for Stingray since they're 89dB/W efficient. 
With Wadia, pre-amp or no pre-amp
i've never used wadia cd player but i know that it has digital volume control that degrades the sound on lower volume levels. you can use an external passive volume control(or passive preamp) and use fixed output with much better results if your r... 
Best sound at Stereophile show.
HaHa Cellover!!! try to turn on Pipedreams quiet and make a judgement!I assume that it all depends on speakers' dynamic curve: some are more revealing at the low volume levels and less pleasant at high volume levels and some speakers are just the ... 
JM Lab Micro Utopia
...in fact i've listened to merylins(2w floorstanders that I don't recall off the top of my head) and they sounded too forwarded and edgy with sim electronics. pass, plinius and gamut are probably the most musical and worm ss amps that sound like ... 
What would you do?
I've got a few Questions:What was the price of the preamp?What is the overall feedback of the ebay member? You should examine feedback for the seller first before bidding. If you do not trust than don't bid.Nak isn't so rare on ebay and can be ava... 
Audiogoners-some musical recommendations
A blondie meets the other blondie and asks:Do you know these guys such as Bethoven, Mozard, Bach?Yes! They compose music for our cell-phones! 
JM Lab Micro Utopia
Warrenh, These are not little at all! For the right room their tight and deep bass can blow out lots of floor standing speakers of given price range. I've never been setting up the monitor speaker system but I'm sure it needs lots of experimentati... 
How to ascertain speaker damage?
Try to drive it real loud one after separately and see how they accept the juice.If notice that it drives an amp to clipping after 10pm volume level than it's probably the voice coil.