meiwan
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| Upgrade AVP or separate preamp/DAC for 2 channel? Definitely go the 2 channel preamp route. It will significantly outperform any avp. So much so I scrapped multi channel all together for both music and movies. | |
| Are Harbeth P3ESR's Any Different From B&W??? The Harbeths use a metal tweeter as well, they just roll it off a little more than B&W does.If you are looking to smooth things out up top look at some of the soft dome tweeter choices - Spendor, PMC etc. | |
| Ipad with Mac mini vnc program? If you are using itunes the free 'remote' app is a must have. | |
| Whats better a 2 way speaker or a 4 way speaker Depends on what the 2 way is trying to do. If the 2 way is trying to reach the depths, in all likelihood it will compromise the midrange. If it is properly designed and rolled off no problem. More drivers means more complicated crossovers which, a... | |
| new system/older equipment your problem is definitely the dac, but you'll need to do better than the Dragonfly. At minimum you could look at the Musical Fidelity Vdac, Cambridge Audio DAC or Moon 100D.If you burned in Apple Lossless you are fine there. PureMusic works well ... | |
| Mhdt Havana, Calyx , Metrum Octave for my setup ? I used to own the Calyx dac, only sold it because I needed toslink. It's a wonderful dac, extremely open, airy and neutral, but I wouldn't call it warm and organic. If you are using tubes (as I was), it's a great match. However if you are looking ... | |
| Tube Integrated for Spendor 3/5 ? I was using an Audio Space as-2i with Spendor 3/5/r2's. Nice combo. I think any el34 tube integrated would work well. Audio Space as-3i, Rogue Cronus, Primaluna Prologue 1 etc... | |
| New but old fashioned looking speakers… The Harbeth M40.1 (or less expensive SHL 5's), or the Classic Spendor series would both fit the bill, especially if you like the Tannoy sound. | |
| Need speaker recommendation - after harbeth c7es3? I just sold my C7's for the same reasons you are giving. Switched to Kudos. For your budget and room size you might look at the C20's. | |
| Mac Mini configuration Doesn't matter. Try it both ways and see if you can hear any difference.Some people have all kinds of ideas for modding the mac mini - new power supply, solid state hard drive etc. Strip the software down to the basics needed.Again, play around if... | |
| Warm, lush and smooth interconnect help You can add Purist Audio and Kubala Sosna to your list. | |
| Primaluna Dialog Two Integrated Amp vs Cayin A-88T I tried Harbeth C7's with kt-88 tubes and didn't like the sound at all. Harbeth's work much better with el34's - they are leaner and more musical. The fuller/more powerful kt-88's don't blend well with the warm Harbeth midband.You might look at Ma... | |
| What do I need to run my maggies? With those speakers I wouldn't consider any HT receiver. You definitely need a high quality 5 channel power amp (Bryston or the like). An HT receiver as a pre on top of that. You can get a decent used ht receiver (Pioneer, Denon) for peanuts, so i... | |
| Outboard DAC Keep the cd player. Buy a good dac. Then you can use the dac for both the cd player and computer. | |
| FLAC or AIFF? your choice for importing to Itunes. iTunes doesn't do flac. You can download flac, but need pure music or similar to convert /playback. |