mimberman
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| Will mother move your speakers at Thanksgiving? Doing it my old man's, which means lounging on the couch with single malt while the Verity Parsifal Ovations coax the loveliest sounds from his Avid Acutus and Burmester stack. Foods not bad either! | |
| Integrated SS amps - Luxman vs. Simaudio Moon? I'm going to reiterate my above post that given your room size, the Rienzi's may sound too small. The new Leonore is probably more appropriate. Just my feeling, and could be wrong. | |
| Integrated SS amps - Luxman vs. Simaudio Moon? The best thing to do is call up Verity. I have a sneaking suspicion the Rienzi's will be too small for your room. I had the Fidelios in a 17 x 20 room and while they sounded good, they did sound small. If you are buying new and can afford good spe... | |
| Integrated SS amps - Luxman vs. Simaudio Moon? What's the room size? That will be a big part of which speakers you choose. | |
| Integrated SS amps - Luxman vs. Simaudio Moon? I would personally pick Verity over B&W's any day. I am a fan of building systems around speakers, and I think Verity makes very good speakers that respond well to a variety of amplification (tubes, class A, beefy AB, etc) and are life-like na... | |
| Integrated SS amps - Luxman vs. Simaudio Moon? What Verity speakers are you thinking of? I had Fidelios with a Pass INT-150 and thought it was very good, but not exceptional. I've heard the Luxman, and while it runs very hot (not my cup of tea) it sounds phenomenal--very natural. I haven't hea... | |
| New DAC recommendation $1K, hopefully tube. FWIW, I had the Benchmark and in my system, the Havana was better. I know people feel the Benchmark and Bel Canto sound similar, but in my system the Benchmark was just too analytical. The Bel Canto has better sound-staging, better bass, and is le... | |
| Pass Labs and DeVore Nines Combo?? David: you are correct, which is exactly what I wrote in post: The INT-150 is class A/B, but runs in class A for first 30 watts (it runs pretty f-in hot) which is more than enough for the Nines. My intuition tells me that the new Pass integrated, ... | |
| New DAC recommendation $1K, hopefully tube. Without getting too technical, the airport express does exhibit a fair amount of jitter, and the Havana's strong-point isn't jitter reduction; it also doesn't have balanced outputs and it's digital input selection is limited. That being said, I ha... | |
| Pass Labs and DeVore Nines Combo?? I haven't heard them together either, but I think you're onto something; however, I would think Pass's class A amps, either the X-1/30A combo, or the new INT-30A integreated would be the way to go. A buddy of mine just purchased the Nines, and we ... | |
| how do you ship? To ship items over 500 dollars and have them fully insured, you have to either have it picked up by fedex or deliver it to a Fedex location, not a fedex/kinkos or an authorized place, but a fedex only store. | |
| Which cart Hey Bill,Wrote on your system but will comment here, as I'm listening now, that the combo of my clearaudio and lyra helikon is really great. I errantly wrote I'd like to try shelter 901, but meant 5000 (brain fart). I had shelter 501 on and it was... | |
| Phono Cable for MusicHall MMF 5.1 The bigger upgrade will come from a separate phono stage, unless your new Preamp has a good one. That, however, means an extra pair of interconnects and an extra power cord. What's your new preamp? If you don't feel it has a strong phono stage, I ... | |
| Are ML CLS speakers a match with SS BAT amps? I had a VK250Xse with my Aesthetix Janus and it was good, but not amazing. I haven't heard your speakers, so no idea of what it would sound like with your system. A friend did bring over his Pass 250.5 and it was VERY good. | |
| DAC for all tube 2 channel set up? I totally agree with Blindjim's assessment of the Bel Canto--it's a great dac, as my latest DAC shootout proves. If you can spend the extra dough, it's a good buy. I use the Bel Canto UBS link to output usb to SPDIF from my mac and that way the US... |