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| Arcam FMJ P7 or Parasound Halo A51? Years and years of stereo experience never prepared my for multichannel with all thier insane variety of input options and lousy TV cable box interfaces ARGGHH! | |
| "American Sound" Speakers There used to be a difference in East coast type sound as represented by AR and west coast as represented by JBL. These distinctions are not as meaningful in the current enviroment. But essentially JBL and Klipsch both used horns to greater or les... | |
| Receiver with no phono input: Solutions? It is no more complicated than placing this phono stage "preamp" a device between your TT out put RCAs and the input into an aux on your reciever. That's all there is to it. Again buy a phono preamp connect you tt output to the phono preamp's inpu... | |
| Best Speaker for Ongaku When you decided to buy this incredible special amplifier which speakers were used to audition it. If you bought it based on reviews, then which speakers did the reviewers use. Indeed you could simply search the many reviews for examples of excell... | |
| Upgrade Amp or Speaker for 2 channel? The front end is the source. In your case a CD player. | |
| If upgrades were no longer possible would you be Yes I am happy now and have been for over 2 years with no upgrades. I was not happy for almost 6 years however.BTW your system is not average to you. It must be excellent to you since you are happy and content. It must not doesn't compare poorly w... | |
| Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space Tubes are generally required for highly dimensional sound. I am surprised that has been mentioned mainly as an aside. I don't discount the value of good speakers I use JM Lab Focal Electra 936s in my main rig .When I switched to tube power amps (l... | |
| Now that "Black Gates" are no longer available, What happened to them? | |
| re: Harmon Kardon Citation 25 Preamp Harman Kardon is still in business. It is owned by an audio conglomerate named Harman of all things. It consists of AKG, JBL, Infinty, Harman Kardon, Mark Levinson and maybe others. They still offer a stereo receiver in fact. A repair or support o... | |
| Thinking of going 2-CH from HT....Tube ? Tubes sound different but be forewarned modern tube amps aren't your father's tube amp. They are not warm, syrupy, slow, dark or fuzzy, in fact many are downright bright some say they have "sparkle".The tube magic is in the inherent nature of thei... | |
| Best length for analog cables from dac to preamp? The best lenght for sonics is as short as possible, i.e. no length. As for resale I rarely see lengths of 0.5 M being bought and sold. The most popular length, however is probably 1 M. | |
| a good pre to end them all ? PL 3 or wyred stp se? Why don't you ask Kevin Deal since he imports and sells Prima Luna. He is also a retailer for Sonus Faber so that should help. You do run the risk of being cajoled into purchasing from him at retail but it semms you don't mind that.I cannot really... | |
| Turntable Maintainance I never clean it. I don't change it until it is obviously no longer functioning. The less you fuss the less likely you will cause a problem. | |
| Recommended e.g. not I heard big Theils with the Rouge Zuess monster tube amp. They sounded excellent and would recommend you consider such an amp if you like the tube magic. | |
| HELP - need a tuner expert - MusicaNova Pandora Sounds like a one of/off piece. Otherwise there should be some literature or reference to the manufacturer on the web. I think you might be forced into taking it to a tech to look at the circuit and try to puzzle through it. Finally try a universa... |