mburns92
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| How much does your system retail for? Retail about $17K, but with most of it purchased used, I paid just over $10K. I had a system that went essentially unchanged for almost 10 years, then I started re-vamping things a couple years ago. I suspect that I will spend some more money agai... | |
| Speaker upgrade itch Opinions 2500$used Based on your list of what is important to you, I would suggest looking at Martin Logan electrostat's. If you like a big soundstage, it's hard to beat the "wall of sound" that they produce, and a lot of guys swear it doesn't get any better than tu... | |
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| What did YOU get for Christmas? I though about buying my wife a new pre-amp, but I decided against it, since she doesn't really listen to much music ;-)Atually, my wife and I passed on buying each other gifts this year, and instead each donated $500 to a no-kill animal shelter n... | |
| Recommend Power Cord for HC Ultimate Outlet This would not be a good solution for everyone, but in my system, I don't use a power cord to feed my UO!I have a dedicated line (12-2 w/ gnd) coming from the breaker panel to a junction box in my crawl space directly under my gear. I split it int... | |
| Line Conditioners or Power Filters????? Psychicanimal, it sounds like you have some experience in industrial power systems, or something similar. As you mention, there are a ton of ways to address providing low noise power to an audio system, and some of the ones that are marketed speci... | |
| Krell KAV CD verses Sony xa777es? I have never directly compared the 2, but I do have an XA777ES, and I would not categorically dismiss the quality of the CD playback without at least listening. In fact, the Stereophile review of the SCD-XA777ES actually concluded that it was prob... | |
| Best $8000 stereo system- used As stated previously, it will depend greatly on the type of music you listen to, and how you listen. If you tend to listen really loud, and need "in-your-face" slamming dynamics, you won't like my speaker recommendation, but the other components, ... | |
| does high end system need expensive speaker cable I would agree with the majority of opinions above that speaker cables have a significant impact on the sound of any system, and also that the cost of the cable does not always correlate to the sonic performance of the cable.I have done some experi... | |
| Another Time and Phase thread I may be over-simplifying this (I tend to do that from time to time), but all of the physical descriptions of how dynamic drivers react to increasing frequencies, and the resulting distortions, seems to make a good argument for electrostatic panel... | |
| the Listening Room I have a similar situation to Flex above, regarding the layout of my house (WA, not CA). Since I am at a point in my career where I move every few years, I can't afford to do anything to lower the resale potential of my house.Therefor, I will tell... | |
| Running Speakers in Parallel, center channel help. Dan,connecting speakers in SERIES will increase the impedance, running them in parallel will decrease the impedance. Since you are using 2 identical speakers, connecting them in parallel will result in the impedance being cut in half.WIth the x-ov... | |
| Help with Martin Logan Aerius Speakers Amandarae,Where in the room did you place your traps?Mike | |
| How do I bi-wire and bi-amp? Like Edesilva, I also run ML speakers (I wish mine were also Prodigy's, but I am still very happy with the smaller Ascent's) with a passive bi-amplification setup. (Obviously, by default, if you bi-amp you are also bi-wiring.) I chose to use a ver... | |
| Need Advice, Getting a Spike a Day While installing whole house surge suppression at the panel or electric meter socket is an excellent idea, I would caution against relying solely on that device to fully protect your electronics. I believe that MOV based suppressors degrade over t... |