oddiofyl
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| Preamp with tone controls? Three of my last four preamps have not had tone controls. The one that did was a McIntosh C15 and I never used them. Although I do need EQ, I have a nasty room mode at 40Hz. This is part of the reason I run stand mounted monitors and a sub. I find... | |
| Conrad Johnson vs. McInosh.... The Classic 2SE is the biggest improvement I've ever realized in an upgrade. IF you can live without remote you will not be disappointed. My DAC and a few sources of mine have remote volume so it didn't matter to me. | |
| Amp upgrade for Revel M20 speakers I drive my M106 Revels with a McCormack DNA 125... they can be found relatively cheap and it's been a great amp. I should note that I recently upgraded my pre, DAC, and speakers. The McCormack is the only component left from my upgrade five years ... | |
| Tube amp problem question You should ask them to retube and bias if it is not auto biasing | |
| How would you feel The most important question is did you love the amp before finding this out? If the answer is yes, it's not worth dwelling on..... | |
| Conrad Johnson vs. McInosh.... I've owned both..... I had a McIntosh C15 and it was good. I think my Conrad Johnson Classic 2SE is much better but it's not apples to apples being tube vs solid state and being newer and more expensive. That C15 served me well, five years not one... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 I will never buy anything like that from Sony...... Knowing Sony it will probably only allow you to buy music from sonymusic.com...... Bastards!!!! | |
| Personal amp evolution My first amp was an integrated, Sansui AU9900Then I added a Carver M1.5t Followed by a pair of B&K M200 SonataChanged my speakers and subsequently changed the amp out to a VTL Stereo 50/50... Great sounding amp when it worked. Picked up a B&am... | |
| Survey-What is your most used source? Blu Ray player.....I use it all the time to stream Pandora, spin CD's , play .WAV files, Netflix.... Technically it's my NAD M51 DAC because it plays all sources except tuner...... Cable, Blu Ray, CD, NAS, all play through it.... | |
| It was 20 years ago today. . What was your system? P.S. Audio 6.0 preampB&K M200 Sonata monosThorens TD 160Sanyo RD 5370 cassette deckSansui TU D99x tunerParadigm Studio 100 speakers | |
| DAC with HDMI Input The NAD M51 DAC has HDMI inputs. It sounds great when playing a BluRay concert video or audio disc. It doesn't do DSD but I don't think I could go back after having a DAC with HDMI inputs. With the legacy toslink and coax plus USB there's plenty o... | |
| Balanced power amp and subwoofer connection. I would just drive it via the preamp........ | |
| McCormack RLD-1 v. Mcintosh C2200 I had a RLD 1 , it was nice but have since upgraded to a Conrad Johnson Classic 2 SE. No remote but awesome sound......I thought it sounded better than the C200 for what it's worth | |
| Your first amp? My first real component was a Sansui AU9900 integrated amp. I eventually used it's pre-outs to drive my first basic amp, a Carver M1.5t.... | |
| DAC Recommendation around 2.5K I've had my M51 about a month and love it. I am putting all of my CDs on a hard drive so I can play them through my Blu Ray player. It sounds great, I also have some hi rez files on the drive that sound incredible..... |