mcreyn
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| Preamp suggestions The Parasound 2100 is a great unit and will work well for your application. Here are my reservations:1) I think the asking price is a bit high. A quick search of Ebay shows the last two units sold for $329 and $400. The $329 one was missing the re... | |
| help........ CJ is notorious for having a lot of gain, the classic has 27db. The McCormack only needs 2.25 volts for its full 500 watt per channel output. A CD or Dac output should be 2v. So the OP should be able to get full output from a preamp that has 1d... | |
| Preamp suggestions Icarus12-I think for your use, the Emotiva PT-100 is a perfect choice, and at $329, leaves money in your pocket. It checks all of your boxes (phono stage, tone controls, price) plus a few others that I think will benefit you down the road (tuner, ... | |
| Preamp suggestions Bigkidz - Thanks for the response. Looking at it, I need to apologize for the snide way I presented my comments. It is clear you were trying to help and just missed some of the information in the thread. Icarus12-To help everyone hone in on s... | |
| Preamp suggestions Bigkidz1- The Counterpoint SA-3000 is an incredible recommendation. Lets look at what original poster said he wanted:"I would however like to have a built-in phono section and the ability to manually adjust with tone controls. I would prefer to bu... | |
| Preamp suggestions George’s concerns are real. A CD output should be 2v which is enough, but often phono preamps run with less output. Combine that with a CD that is recorded at a low level or album at a low level and you could run out of volume. The Freya addres... | |
| Preamp suggestions Mrdon- Freya is above his pricepoint. Re the Parasound- Decent unit, but no remote and the volume steps are as large as 6db at the low end. For $170 it is hard to go wrong with it. Here is a review of it from new. https://www.stereophile.com... | |
| Preamp suggestions You can get all that you want, but it is going to push your budget a bit:1) Schiit Saga (original on closeout) $299 (you get the option of passive or tubed with the Saga).2) Schiit Mani Phono Preamp- $1293) Schiit Loki EQ/Tone Control-$149This ... | |
| Preamp suggestions Budget? Any idea tubes or solid state? Remote control?A closeout Schiit Saga at $299 would work great and leave money for cables and room treatment. | |
| Looking to Add to my 7100 Mrdecibel- Good point. I would have mentioned it, but since the OP was clear he only wanted an answer to his specific question, I figured let him discover for himself. Perhaps he will be more inclined to listen to your sage advice. | |
| Looking to Add to my 7100 Where you set your volume on your preamp has nothing to with whether your amp is running out of power, only the gain of your preamp. Are you in fact running out of power? Your amp has a clipping light on it that will flash if it is. Is it flashing... | |
| used Integrated tube amp under $1500 for Klipsch Cornwall III's? I would place it on the piano. You run the risk of the tubes picking up the vibrations from the speakers and feeding back when on the speaker (microphony). Some amps are more susceptible to this than others. | |
| used Integrated tube amp under $1500 for Klipsch Cornwall III's? Pretty much anything will have enough power for the Cornwalls. At 102db/w sensitivity, even a single ended triode will push them to close to 110db on peaks. For the OP, looking at the features and sound characteristics of the amp are far more i... | |
| Class d for ht. While I am throwing out suggestions not asked about, the Wyred 4 Sound MC7150 is 7 channels of Class D, $1299, 120 per channel. | |
| Class d for ht. Another choice would be a Sunfire 7201. 7 channels, 200 watts per channel, run dead cool, great sounding and on flea bay NIB for $2100. |