mbovaird
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| RMAF 2014 Observations Larrystain - The Polymer room was superb? Surely you must mean the girls and not the sound! I went to this room several times across three days and it was boomy, two dimensional and just plain bad sounding. $60,000? Give me a break. I heard $5000 ... | |
| RMAF 2014 Observations Interesting observations. I was there all three days and heard the Lansche room three times....it didn't do it for me. I agree the Raidho room with Constellation sounded excellent. My favorite was the big Focal/Soulution/Transrotor/AirTight/TaraLa... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective To me, the Lumin S1 is the best sounding digital. Plus no computer to fuss about. | |
| RMAF - Loudspeakers that you don't want to miss Ditto on Spatial Audio Holograms... | |
| Is there any 50W 300B SET monoblock out there? Allnic A-6000 | |
| Preamp for mc275le. Need advice, please The obvious is of course a Mc preamp, but I've always been fond of ARC preamps and Mc amps. The new ARC SP20 sounds very good. But, you would need an external DAC or network music player - assuming you want digital and not just a CD player. The AR... | |
| Pass XA30.5 vs. ARC Ref 75 It would ultimately depend on your listening preference and how each amp pairs with your speakers. Even though I'm a huge fan of Pass and Pass Class A in particular, I would suggest giving the REF75 a go for sure. If forced to pick between these t... | |
| Tannoy Yorkminster vs Canterbury Congrats!!! | |
| Tannoy Yorkminster vs Canterbury I auditioned both and ended up buying the Canterbury GR's. They are sweeter sounding with no "honkiness". I found the Yorkministers GR's still had that last hair of honkiness. The Yorkministers also don't fill the room like the big Canterbury GR's... | |
| Psvane KT88 tubes in VAC amps I've tried Psvane T2's (KT88 and cv181z's) in my phi 200's and they were good, certainly better than the stock. I've played around with a number of combos - including and my favorite (so far) is GoldLion KT88's and NOS RCA 6SN7's (they have a gray... | |
| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? Sonus Faber Aida's. In my room, they were not as good as the Sonus Faber Stradivaris I replaced them with. | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Keith - I think you are correct. The MC275 V6 has great drive and dynamics. That being said, I dipped way way deep into my stock of tubes and brought out some NOS GoldLion KT88's and 1940's RCA 6SN7's - put them in the VAC phi200 and it took that ... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Hi Peter - excellent questions. I had ~1000 hours on the S5's. I would turn them on in the morning and let them play until I went to bed. This happened for over two months straight. After that, I had another three months of on/off listening. I tri... | |
| High efficiency speakers Devore 0/96TannoyLMSpatial Audio | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Dave - spoke to my dealer today and he doesn't think the super tweeter is beneficial with the new GR series and its advances. He said the super tweeter was beneficial with the SE series. Not sure....would still like to try them though.Mike |