mh_stevens

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What is the best solid state amplifier you have ever heard?
McIntosh 600w/c vintage late 80's. Bought it secondhand but returned it due to hum. Replaced with Krell 250wpc not nearly as fine driving the B&W 803s3 
Mono Blocks for B&W 801 s3
As a somewhat belated response (had surgery) my cables are very expensive 20' TARALABS but no great gauge. The Krell only has one set of post per channel but the leads split onto four / are double, so a separate line runs to each post pair on the ... 
Problem with New System - Diagnosis Sought.
I wish I could attach a drawing to show how I'm now setup. The speakers are back square to wall about a foot out. The mid/top swivel units are facing to about 3 feet either side of me with me not central, but to the side in an alcove where the wal... 
Problem with New System - Diagnosis Sought.
Sorry guys - the bad sounds are on the recording!!!! Try this for yourselves.The Robert Shaw Handel's Messiah, Track #2, "Comfort Me", at 40sec mark and other high sustained tenor notes. I've had this recording neigh on 20 years and never heard th... 
Placing B&W 801s3 in Small Thin Room
Vegasears: Seems you have your 801's on the short wall. I can't do that. 
Placing B&W 801s3 in Small Thin Room
Thanks Effischer for your comments on my new system. Got the preamp here on Audiogone (was looking for a KBL but could't find one). The KSA250 and the B&W 801s3 I got on Craigslist. Speakers have no stands just on spikes.I have a concrete floo... 
Connecting Cable Box to Preamp
Do the satellite companies have better signals? What about a sate;lite radion receiver? 
Who R U?
No 2014 posts. 64 yo from UK. Bacholors in Physics but became a CPA working in the 'ol bidnes in Houston till I got real sick in 1989. In early retirement I have grown trees, sub-divided NM mountain land, flipped houses in So Cal and now live on a... 
KAV-250p For KSA-250
Thanks Zd542. I might do that, the KSA sure does use a lot of juice