mikelavigne
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| Best power amp below US $ 20.000,00 ?? Elberoth2, in your 14' x 19' foot room you may not need a 'big amp' that is typically associated with Eidolons.you mention your interest in an 'SET mid-range' yet have a 87db, 4 ohm speaker. depending on listening habits, finding an amp that can c... | |
| Dartzeel amp lives up to hype congrats, and welcome to the darTZeel club. i agree that the dart is deceptively dynamic for 100 watts. the fact it is fully broken in is very significant as to dynamics.you know, of course, you now "need" the darTZeel battery powered pre. it is m... | |
| What pre-amp goes well with the Tenor 150 HPs amp? having tried lots of preamps (at least 10 others......although none of those you listed) with Tenor 300 Hybrids and Tenor OTL's; the winner for me was the Placette passive RVC.as long as you keep the interconnects very short between the Placette a... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? Alex; you will be welcome here any time it might work out.as far as your generous suggestion; unfortunately my current setup for vinyl utilizes a pre-production darTZeel preamp with only BNC outputs operational. therefore i have no way to input th... | |
| VTL, CTC, Lamm, ARC, EAR, Halcro, Mark Levison David, Herve Delatraz (Mr. darTZeel) is in Geneva, SW. if you contact him directly i would expect something could be worked out.www.dartzeel.com his e-mail address is rehve@darTZeel.comthe Connoisseur Definitions was the phono stage/pre which had ... | |
| VTL, CTC, Lamm, ARC, EAR, Halcro, Mark Levison i owned the Exquisite 1D's for 4 years and have owned the Levinson #32 as well as had the Lamm L2, Aesthetix Calisto Sig. w/2 power supplies, and CTC Blowtorch in my room with the 1D's. however, i have not had the ML2.1's in my room.i likely agree... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? "Well I had assumed that when you say "get out of the way of the music" you were referring to the invisibility of your speakers."it is not possible to isolate issues to one factor.....and more than a few speakers 'disappear'. in addition there is ... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? OB my friend;sorry if my comment is not clear enough. i will try to expand on it.when i say "vinyl continues to reveal more and more as the system gets more out of the way" i am describing my audio philosophy......which is......as one's system imp... | |
| Kharma Midi Exquisite vs MBL101E Alec; this thread is not about the VR9's. I loved what the Kharma's did and they remain a speaker that i unconditionally recommend for all but the largest rooms. they are much easier to 'get right' than the VR9's.the VR9's are an 'open-window'. th... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? actually, as i was born in 1951......i may have been him in my past life. | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? Guido;"I am quite sure even old Ludwig Wittgenstein would find it problematic on purely logical or epistemological grounds."if you're going to kick my ass please speak English.:^)but seriously......my comments about my SODA (i assume you mean SOTA... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? as my system includes both Oneobgyn's emmlabs gear and SOTA vinyl i do this comparison every day.if comparing very good (top 30% of 6000 lps) vinyl (of the same recording) to the very best digital (redbook or SACD) the vinyl is at a higher level o... | |
| Kharma Midi Exquisite vs MBL101E Cchckc, your room is good sized; and you already like what the (i assume Kharma) subwoofer does. the Midi Exquisites will take you further down that (wonderful) road.my Exquisite 1D's had the same ceramic mid-range and tweeter as your 3.2's......s... | |
| Conrad Johnson ACT2 against Audio Research Ref 3 Ginas, i have heard both the ACT II and Ref 3 at shows; i like them both. what is interesting is that both pre's actually are more strictly neutral than their pedigree's might suggest. i like the sense of control of the ARC Ref 3 and the delicacy ... | |
| Kharma Midi Exquisite vs MBL101E Alectiong; i owned the Exquisite 1D's for almost 4 years; and then used the Midi Exquisite's for 5 months while waiting for my VR9's to be built. i have listened to the MBL101E's a few times at shows; i don't consider myself an expert on the MBL's... |