mmowry
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| How well does the VPI 16.5 work?? I second what everyone else has said. It is a great record cleaning machine. This is one purchase you will never regret making. | |
| Best of all worlds?????????? Try adding a subwoofer to the mix. I never really enjoyed listening to rock music on my system until I added a subwoofer. | |
| Is there a cd player that sounds close to an LP? You might want to try a CAL Alpha or Sigma II DAC. The tubed output stage takes the edge off of CDs. Both can be purchased for next to nothing these days (Alpha around $400, Sigma II around $200 used). If you don't want to use your Marantz CDP as ... | |
| MSB Link DAC ModWright Upgrade Sugarbrie, Dusty Vawter suggested ModWright. Any idea how I get in touch with Stan Warren? | |
| Bookshelf or floorstander? The difference between the M20's and 1.3SE's is hard for me to answer. I listened to both, but on different weekends at my local dealer. Honestly, I wasn't seriously listening to the 1.3SE's with the intent to purchase (they were way out of my pri... | |
| opinions on Music Fidelity A308 Integrated ? Samski, I don't know if this is going to help, but I have not been overly impressed with the Musical Fidelity equipment. Assuming you are buying this component new, I wouldn't purchase any of their equipment without first demo-ing it in your syste... | |
| How much to spend on analog to get a decent sytem? I agree with John 1. You probably need to spend around 2-$2.5K to get what would be considered a good analogue rig by high-end standards. The Rega P25 is a good place to start (and probably end). If you are a VPI fan (I am), the Aries Scout is pre... | |
| Bookshelf or floorstander? Dennis, I have had good results with both my old Vandersteen 2Ce's with two subwoofers (Snell Sub 550's) and my new B&W CDM 1NT's. For both types of speakers, I run the subs in parallel with the mains. I haven't had any trouble integrating the... |