opus111
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| Is anything better than Aleph 3? I think Aleph 3 (also 1,2,4,and 5) can sound boring driving speakers with low (6 ohm or lowers) impedance. I found it to sound its best with benign 6 ohm or higher imdedance.I prefer the Aleph 0 mono amps for their ability to drive tough speaker l... | |
| stands for stacked quads with decca tweeters Sorry, I meant to say that Sound Anchors also make the custom stands for the stacked Quads. | |
| stands for stacked quads with decca tweeters They make custom stands for stacked Quad. | |
| VTL TL2.5 Preamp Excellent preamp and one of the biggest bargains in hifi. Very airy sounding with good details and musicality. | |
| tubes and analog I have owned literally hundreds of tubes and solidstate amps and preamps (and phonostages) over the years, everything from MFA Lumi C/MC Reference, Lamm L1/L2, Airtight ATE-2/ATM-2, Counterpoint SA4/SA9/SA11, Atma-Sphere M60s, Futterman OTL3/H3A, ... | |
| tubes and analog I agree 100% with Rauliruegas. One may prefer tube over SS, but stating that tubes retrieve more detail than transistors is simply misleading. | |
| Is the Classe dr-7 still one of the best I owned one a few years ago. It seems like there are a few folks who claim its internal phonostage (especially the MC section which is said to be identical to the NIL headamp) of this preamp to be one of the best of its kind, but to be honest I wa... | |
| Fixing a Levinson: Where do I send it? Do NOT send your Levinson to www.stereorepair.net. I sent in my Levinson 23.5 to fix slight noise from one channel but it came back to me with both channels completely dead! I sent the amp back, waited 3 months, and it came back to me with the sam... | |
| Tally up best preamplifier ever MFA MC Reference. Nothing like it. | |
| Kimber vs Jensen coupling caps in Cary amps Man, if you can hear the difference that a single capacitor makes in your amp, you are truly blessed with golden ears. | |
| avantgarde with SS amp recomendation Pass Aleph 3, perhaps, but it puts out as much (if not more) as a tube amp. The best SS for the AG would be Mark Levinson ML-2's but they also put out heat and cost more. | |
| advice on speakers to replace ML Monolith 3 Monolith 3s were one of the best speakers ML ever made, IMHO, and they are better than MG3.6's. You would have to move up to big Soundlabs to get better electrostatic speakers or perhaps get a stacked pair of Quad ESLs to get a more coherent sound... |