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| Choice of tube amp? For what its worth, I demoed S-400 and I think it is the best amp personally I have heard. Haven't heard it with stats. To me, it has almost as much bass control as Halcro monoblocks, I compared it directly to Burmester 911 and it was much more in... | |
| ARC VT100MkII Okay, here's my experience1. It gets hot, but not incredibly hot.2. Soundstage is not it's real strength for a tube amp, a little forward, however its microdynamics are incredible in my opinion. I would call it relaxed and natural.3. I have never ... | |
| Unsteady SPL Readings If you are using a very cheap slm, (ie radio shack type), they are not designed to go that low in frequency response to get an accurate, consistent reading. It may help to get out of "a weighted" if you are in that mode as well. With cheap slm's, ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Okay: Not that I got an upgrade bug or anything in order:JBL-L150Yamaha NS-1000MMagneplanar MG1.6Linn TukanLinn Keilehd (sic)(active crossover)Vienna HaydnWattPuppy 5.0Revel StudioSonus Faber Electa Amator IIWattPuppy 6.0JM Lab Alto BeBosendorfor ... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? Guidocorona..yup the UX-01 was broken, not so sure about the Ayre, though, it got better and better but still, just something very mechanical about it, which, in my experience is not like Ayre. My wonderful dealer, who did an "oops" when he sold m... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? Okay, here was my final buy: The contenders were Ayre CX-5, Esoteric UX-01, Sony ns999 in home theatre and the EMM labs combo.The DCC-2 combo was most realistic, most holographic of them all, the Esoteric X-01 was very "metallic", not a great soun... | |
| EMM DCC2/CDSD versus Esoteric X-01 Yup, wish I had a chance to have listened to the X-01. When I went in the store, they "forgot" to mention that unit and I was not, at the time, as well informed and assumed, based on the info I gave them, that I gots the 2 channel machine. Dang. O... | |
| EMM DCC2/CDSD versus Esoteric X-01 In my system, UX-1, EMM DCC2, Wadia 861, Ayre CD-5EX all at the same time. The rest of the system is McIntosh MC2000 and Audio Research Ref2 Mk2, HRX rack, Jm Lab Alto be, Shunyata6, Transparent super xl speaker wires, and either Harmonic Tech Pro... |