oddiofyl
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| Bryston or Outlaw The Bryston is leagues above the 200. The 200s are good for budget system. The ATI amps are good and have a seven year warranty, but Bryston's is 20. | |
| Snell Snell's still in business ? | |
| 3 head cassette decks Believe it or not Sanyo made a serious deck back in the day, the 5370. You can buy them dirt cheap, IF you can find one. I still use it to make tapes for my car, it's a great sounding machine. http://www.vintagecassette.com/Sanyo/RD5370 | |
| What the most musical power amp for under $1K? I have a McCormack DNA 125 and love it, in fact it replaced an Anthem AMP 1 which was a nice sounding 40w tube amp. The DNA 125 is a great amp that you can find used for around $800. FWIW I paid $1600 for mine new and felt it was well worth the mo... | |
| An antiquated DAC or an affordable recent one? I've owned some older Audio Alchemy dacs, some decent CD players, and a CAL Alpha DAC which was one of my better hifi purchases some time ago. A while back I started out looking for a cheap DAC to connect my cable box and DVD player to in a 2.1 sy... | |
| Sherwood Unfortunately no one's actually heard the 972, it's not here yet. | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? My first player was also a Sony CDP 101 that I picked up new in '83. It was cool being the first kid on the block with a CD player but there were only about a dozen rock albums on CD at the time. Despite it's shortcomings I thought that the Compac... | |
| REL subwoofer I have a R305 and really like it, in terms of sound quality it's the best sounding sub I've ever owned regardless of price. Unfortunately the R305 isn't well suited for large rooms or high volumes. It's great for music but if you are looking for h... | |
| Internet Direct Speakers.. Axiom M80 Thoughts typo:I meant Salk and Tyler | |
| Internet Direct Speakers.. Axiom M80 Thoughts I don't think there are that many I.D. speakers that are actually better than their retail competition. After all few I.D. companies actually make their own speakers, Axiom is one of the few that I know of. They are better suited to home theater a... | |
| Would you pay to audition speakers Please let us know the name of the dealer so I can be sure not to waste MY time visiting him. If I wanted to pay to audition speakers I would try several I.D. brands... after all aren't you "paying" to audition them by returning them at your expen... | |
| Need advice on pre/pro - Rotel1098/Outlaw990/??? Both are outdated but I would pick the Rotel between the two. | |
| VTL ST-85 Repair I agree Luke Manley is the rudest, most arrogant person I have ever had the displeasure of speaking to in my life. An absolutely horrible experience dealing with him after he renegged on his "lifetime warranty", what a scumbag. | |
| VTL ST-85 Repair First check the cathode resitor between the tube socket and the test point. I have had these go out of spec and cause the tubes to draw excessive current, blowing the main fuse. I had a few tubes get red hot and the bias seemed OK at the test poin... | |
| Anthem AVM 20 V.2, Outlaw 990, or ??? I'd go with a used Anthem because at this point neither one can decode the new formats so just go with the better pre-amp and let someone else take the hit for it's depreciation. |