matt8268
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| Integrated amp for less than$2500,your suggestion I just picked up a Plinius 8200 mkII for about $1800. To my ears it has the sound you describe. I have read some head to head comparisons that place it behind the Concentra, however. 8200 also comes with a nice built-in phono stage and has HT pass... | |
| I'm depressed, my system hurts my ears.Please help Well, thanks for all the different suggestions. I ended up replacing both the McIntosh amp and the Creek passive with a Plinius 8200 mkII integrated. System now sounds wonderful, and Plinius JUST went in, so it will no doubt get better as this com... | |
| Should I use MM or MC input? Thanks guys, I'll open my unit and set the jumpers to low gain setting (comes set to high gain by default) before hooking it up. Thanks for the time saver!Matt. | |
| Suggestions for my first turntable Okay, my response to your question: I would say I certainly will not spend over $1000 (used). I'd be very happy to spend $500 on a good table with good cartridge...just sold on here (that would have been good for me I think) is an older wooden Aco... | |
| Integrated Amp to bypass HT receiver? I'm in your same situation, and I decided to go with a Plinius 8200 integrated. It has a HT passthrough for movies, and by bypassing the pre section of your HK receiver for 2 channel, you'll get much better music. I bought it on Audiogon and haven... | |
| Guilty Pleasures: Throwaway Pop Must add greatest hits discs from Billy Squier and Rick Springfield."Stroke me, stroke me!" | |
| Simplification of HT & 2 Channel System I've read great things about the EAD TheatreMaster pre-pro, but you'd need to add power to that. Most reviews I read people really feel receivers can't do the job of the dedicated components. As for myself, I'm keeping my mid-fi home theater gear,... | |
| Any audiophiles in San Diego?? I'm a budding audiophile in San Diego. Not into analog but have just set up my first audiophile-grade system with a CD player. | |
| Another pre-amp integration question Is it me or will Jcbtubes' solution not work. Please forgive all inaccurate units of measure in the below example, it's just to explain with.Say the 9 oclock position of the preamp amplifies whatever comes into it by 2. Say you level it at that po... | |
| I'm depressed, my system hurts my ears.Please help Thanks for all the suggestions. One thing I should reiterate is that the sound is not necessarily bad, but that it literally hurts my ears. Like it is too loud (resonating) at certain frequencies, probably midrange. Midrange resonations I believe ... | |
| Earplugs for conerts? Do what I do. Get yourself to the local concession stand, grab a napkin, tear off a quarter of it, fold it up and stick it in your ear. It sounds like I'm telling you off, but this is actually what I do. I've never shopped for balanced attenuated ... | |
| Question for recording artist/engineers My friend who built his own recording studio uses the following a lot as a great resource for these types or questions:http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=rec.audio.pro | |
| Are CD clubs a good deal? If you don't subscribe to the theory that BMG discs sound worse than regular discs, BMG is a great disc club. (I've read some articles where people confirm with precise measurement equipment that the BMG disc is identical to a store bought disc, b... | |
| Here's my room...what are my options? I own the Joseph RM22si sig, which is pretty much a 7si sig as a floorstander. I bought the 22's after overhearing the 7si's at a local dealer. My room is also very similar to yours dimension wise, I am using a McIntosh amp (the old MC2105), and l... | |
| Cheap Bryston active or Creek OBH12 passive? Okay, a bit more info on my system:Mac amp has input sensitivity of .5V, does anyone know output voltage of the Music Hall CD 25? I can't find it.Signal Cable's Analog 2 interconnects are 10 ft between CD and pre and 2 ft between pre and power. Bu... |