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| Need a warm amp for bright speakers In my experience with a metal tweeter speaker, you will end up spending more to tune them into the sound you want, than it would cost to sell them and replace them with a warmer speaker. In my case it was a good result because I was happy to use t... | |
| McIntosh MEN220 Room Correction System It is almost sacred to keep the circuit as short and error free in "better" audio hear. I say be sinful and spend your money on what you like. Its your freaking house and your freaking ears and it your fundamental right to pursue happiness. So I ... | |
| Vandersteen 5A or Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage Prolly should go with the Vandersteens, I have heard them and thought quite differently than Zd542 in that they were on the warmer richer side of the scale. They are fantastic with analog if you have a turntable. That said you already favor the So... | |
| The Tannoy Speaker Line - worth a serious look ? Well of course they are worthy of consideration. I have a pair of one of Tannoys worst speakers the 1980s DC2000 which have the coaxial later gold series driver. I have not resold them for a variety of reasons but mainly believe or not because I d... | |
| My System any comment's? What advice are you asking for? Are you satisfied with the sound, if so as said don't look for problems "nervosa?" | |
| Redbook & SACD value I 2nd the Esoteric if you have the budget for it. | |
| Preamp with Tone Control Recommendations .... Your experience makes the argument that the preamp itself is a tone control of sorts. When people ask me for a romantic old fashioned warmish tuby sound pre, I point them in the CJ direction. | |
| Upgrade Advice Typically the biggest impact on your sound will occur if you upgrade the speakers. Then you buy an amp with your speakers in mind (obviously you won't buy speakers that are incompatible with your current gear), the sources etc. upstream. In realit... | |
| choosing interconnect/Speakers/AC -Maestro Utopia I have some older Focal Electra 936s which had the typical Focal sound, very detailed and analytical. I found that Cardas Golden Reference ICs added some nice warmth to the sound. The biggest improvement in overall sound quality came when I finall... | |
| USHERS Used gear that old will typically be priced at 50% of the orig. MRSP. so .... | |
| bat vk 60 speaker reccomendations What did you use/like before, how big is your room and how much do you expect to spend? | |
| The quest Not everyone actually thinks that vinyl is the ultimate best sound. There are those who think it can gloss over details too easily etc. Sure there are analog gurus who aim for very detailed and precise sound but IMO not most of them. | |
| Lets talk tubes in Pharaoh Integrated I see that it has a tube preamp circuit and SS power output. I can't find which tubes it uses in the pre can you list them? | |
| CD copies I also think you need a transport that can quite specifically read the SACD format. It follows that failing that, no other data manipulation would be possible. | |
| To Tube or not to Tube...... The sound you get with an SS pre and a tube amp is in my opinion much better than the ubiquitous tube pre and SS power amp. I agree most decidedly with Charles1dad about this, although there is a strong belief that the tubed pre signal is only amp... |