mimberman
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| Driving Totem Forrests with 40W Tubes??? Okay, first off, I don't have personal experience with the Forests and tubes, but I do have experience with the Forests and fair range of amplification.My first question would be: when are you planning to move to tube monoblocks? If you like the f... | |
| Problems with Ayre's Company??? My local dealer was basically forced out of the product line for unimaginable reasons.Okay, try us, what were these unimaginable reasons? I'm not saying companies don't sometimes put stress on dealers to sell things in ways that don't make both pa... | |
| Quality headphone playback on a notebook computer? One way may be to get the Grado battery powered headphone amp. I sometimes run my grado's direct from my Mac G4 laptop, and think it sounds fine. True, not as good as the ipod, and not nearly as good as with the amp, but I wouldn't say it sounds l... | |
| Jazz Recommendations. What type of Jazz? It's a pretty diverse art form that spans almost a century. Big Band? Ragtime? Bebop? Hardbop? Free Jazz? Fusion? Etc.?That aside, I'd add for anyone listening to jazz: Coletrane "Giant Steps".More later. | |
| Int. amp...most dynamic, full and smooth $3,000 For tube, I second the Prima Luna recommendation, and would add a couple others:Musical Fidelity Nu VistaSim i-5Plinius 9200Pathos TTBel Canto Seti 40I could go on, but that's a good start.Have fun | |
| "This Latest Digital Amp Is Great " Danielk141:Curious which amps you're referring to? I just listened to the JRDG Concerto Integrated which boasts an Icepower amp section, and think it's rather amazing. The last word in ampflication, digital or otherwise, probably not, but definite... | |
| whats the biggest mistake you made? I stand corrected, Hooper, your story takes the cake. | |
| whats the biggest mistake you made? I think this one might take the cake:Last year I turned down a set of KRELL FPB-250M monoblocks and Krell KPS-25sc CD/Pre which I would have gotten for NOTHING. Yup, Nada, Zilch, Zero. A very generous family member was getting a mid-life crisis sy... | |
| Why do people write mean things about musicians I think I've pieced this puzzle together:So Badbunnyr has responded to two of my other threads I've written in, and sent me 2 emails in one day (the same day he made this post) asking me about a post I made reviewing a bad Rachel Z concert (origin... | |
| Best Jazz and Rock & Roll HDCD CDs Beck's sea change is nice in hdcd and sacd. | |
| Best Integrated Amp, Price no obstacle? So Panderso...how was the i-7 we're (I'm) dying to know. | |
| Why so many DK Design integrated amps for sale ? I believe there's already a long thread on this if you search the archives. There are many threads on DK design in general so you have days of reading ahead of you. I'm in a similar boat in terms of high powered integrated amps, so email me if you... | |
| Help me spend $8,000 this is really long, sorry Thanks to everyone who responded:Nsgarch: I'll likely stick with a high output MCMaineiac: I've heard VAC has reliability issues. Anyone care to chime in on this?Xiekitchen: I def. plan to take my time. It'll be at least 6 months until I have a pl... | |
| Richard Gray Pole Pig Take a look at Ajazi's system. He uses a pole pig and 600 together, and I think he has more info on the combo on his seperate web page, or you could email him. | |
| How does Totem do it ??? I would disagree with the idea that there's very little low-end in totems. First off, you should specify which model totem you're talking about. Are there speakers that produce more bass? Sure, but more isn't always better. I think for those of us... |