melbguy1
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| Recommend A More Dynamic Monitor Than Harbeth C7 By monitor speaker, I assume you mean bookshelf speakers Dhcod? Joseph Audio Pulsar is known to be a dynamic sounding speaker & is one of the classic bookshelf speakers (along with speakers like the SF Guarneri Homage). | |
| Gold or Rhodium 09-25-15: Zd542What urban myths are you talking about? Just curious, I've never heard them....you could start with Audiolabyrinth's Taralabs thread. Plenty of hotchpotch over there. | |
| Gold or Rhodium I use a GTX-D(g) wpo in my ss system (Vitus/Magico/Jorma). The Magico S5's are already highly resolving and fairly neutral in tonal balance, so I decided on the gold version to add a touch of warmth and body. The general recommendation I received ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? 09-22-15: Tomic601how exactly Melbguy1 was my post defensive and boastful ?what exactly is the garbage in my system ?If you're asking those questions, you're not ready for the answers.. | |
| Do you Bi-Wire, if you can? Mofi, I used biwire cables with my previous Infinity Reference 60's, Renaissance 90's & later, Marten Coltrane Alto's. With my Ref 60's, I initially ran Audioquest single wires with the factory gold plated jumper plates before upgrading to Aud... | |
| How long should speakers last? Like you Sm, I owned a pair of Infinity Reference 60 speakers for 18 years before I sold them. They never skipped a beat in that time & still looked mint when I sold them. Though the original foam bass surrounds on the two 8" IMG woofers were ... | |
| Million Dollar Speakers? I can't believe any speaker using Accuton ceramic drivers could ask that price! I would take a pair of Magico Q7 MK2, Avalon Tesseract or Genesis Dragons over those speakers every , and invest the $800k spare change in a house. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? 09-16-15: TbgMelbguy1, now with expensive cables and power cords, I think the notion of a balanced approach is nonsense. I have found that $20k worth of HFCables on an $1800 dac makes it sound like a $35,000 dac. Also isolation and better racks ca... | |
| Dan D'Agostino Momentum amplifier- which preamp? I know CKKeung on WBF runs an ARC Ref 40th Anniversary preamp successfully with his MC2 S1400 mono's. They're pro amps, so I'd expect them to be fairly neutral. The Ref 40 pre is very nice if you can find one. | |
| A separate dac and preamp or a good dac with pream Well I'm a bit old school so I have a good CD player (Vitus) which is essentially a full dac with a transport & an integrated amp. I'm not a fan of dac-preamps as conversely they tend to be full preamps with a dac 'board' tacked on. | |
| Novum Resonator Alternative I do believe in Acoustic Resonators & plan to get my listening room treated with resonators from Franck Tchang. Really remarkable products! Better still, I'll have the opportunity of having the master himself personally treat my room...no hit ... | |
| Help me decide Revel or Focal The Ultima Salon 2's are damn good speakers (especially for the money). They have one of the best BE tweeters out there. That's an easy recommendation. | |
| Need Advice on a Low End CD Player Giant Killer I would go for a Sony XA-5400ES & get that sent off to Dan at Modwright for the truth mods. You would be hard pressed to find a better bang for the buck SACD player. | |
| Looking for pre with 2 volume controls. Lamm preamps use dual volume controls if you're looking for a tubed linestage. | |
| oppo 105d mod or look for a new cd player ? Thankful, That's fair enough. I previously owned a modded Ayon CD-5s & own an Oppo 103, but haven't heard any modded Oppo players. Will check them out, cheers! |