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| How hot is too hot? 50* (122*F) isn't that hot for electronics. It might seem hot to us, but from everything I've seen, that's pretty normal. Think of the Class-A offerings from something like Krell. Those units can get to 180*+ and still keep chugging along jus... | |
| Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget How about some Klipsch Cornwalls and a good tube integrated amp like a Rogue Cronus Magnum or a Cary SLI-80? | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's The only thing cooler than one MC275, is two of them. | |
| gain staging and attenuation Like was mentioned before, the Parasound phono stages have a lot of gain, comparatively. Are you sure it is set to MM on both channels and not MC, by accident, giving you an insane amount of gain? | |
| Anyone else constantly curious about amps? That's one of the nice things about tube amps. You can change the tubes out relatively inexpensively and change the amps sound, giving you a new experience each time. | |
| Which amplifier The McIntosh. The Accuphase is nice, of course. But dang....that MA8000 is a gorgeous beast. | |
| Buy or stay with? It looks like those speakers can’t do what you want by looking at the spec sheet. If you like the CV sound, but want more umph, getting a good sub or 2 would be one way. It seems that SVS has some good performance bargains available that can do wh... | |
| Standmount speaker suggestion $9500 for a plywood box (semi-finished?) and some off-the-shelf drivers? Wow. I'm also curious about how they got 92dB sensitivity from a bookshelf with a 5.25" woofer and a claimed 44Hz low frequency range. | |
| REW with subwoofers When I used REW for my system with dual subs, I started with just one active. Once I got that dialed-in the best I could, I then added in the second one. This way, if there were any phase issues between the two subs and somewhat the mains, I cou... | |
| External Speaker Volume Control Just google "speaker selector with volume control." There are several available for cheap. Plus, they have impedance matching so your amp will last. | |
| Ø Audio anyone? @willywonka Sort-of.... Steve Guttenberg doesn't do any review for gear he doesn't like. If he gets in a product that he doesn't care for, he just sends it back to the manufacturer and never mentions it on his channel. If he gets in gear he do... | |
| Shipping costs- WTF Yes, PirateShip all the way. | |
| No love for Cube Audio speakers? Have you reached out to TMRAudio in CO? | |
| No love for Cube Audio speakers? One challenge is the shipping cost of towers now. That's also a more obscure manufacturer than something like a Wilson/ Magico/ Sonus Faber/ etc. So you're just waiting on that one buyer that knows they want a Cube audio tower speaker and can ea... | |
| Budget floorstanders under $500 ? Hopefully after 16 years the OP found a solution. |