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| Power consumption questions Thanks everyone. Great input. Looks like overall I can expect not to have problems and blowing the circuit breaker. I can not change the other devices that are powered in this same circuit (lights, TV, exercise machine, etc). But the draw should b... | |
| Speaker Placement, Listening Room Design Have you invested in a copy of Robert Harley's book, "The Complete Guide to High End Audio"?. Many of your questions about room design, diffusers, bass traps, speaker placement, etc are explained in this excellent work. It's a book I refer to on a... | |
| What speakers for NAD Model 314 I still have an older NAD 7240PE receiver at 40 watts/ch and am powering a pair of B&W DM601-S3s in a second smaller system. The sound is fabulous. The power in that little NAD drives those B&Ws very well. For what it's worth. | |
| Upgrade Path No B&W Group (Rotel, B&W) is not Chinese owned. They are still headquartered in England and are an English owned company. They have built an assembly plant in China where some of their speakers are "assembled" there. The loudspeaker compon... | |
| Upgrade Path First IMO, upgrading to new equipment is good for our economy even if it's made outside the USA. Consumer spending stimulates the overall economy and creates new jobs. Second, oh yes, B&W has vastly improved its technology over the past 15 yea... | |
| Your Best HiFi DVD I continue to build my collection. 1. Van Morrison live at Montreaux, 2 DVD set, Fantastic. 2. John Fogerty, Long Road Home (super Rock N Roll, many of the older CCR hits)3. Steely Dan, Two Against Nature (recorded in 5.1, NYC Sony Studios)4. Chic... | |
| New Rotel "15" Series My audio sales person told me just last week that the new "15" series uses digital amplifiers as opposed to analog in the older series. It comes down to a matter of taste. He feels the analog amps produce a warmer more natural sound in the music. ... | |
| Speaker recommendations? If you can buy a pair of B&W 685s for $300.00, man go for it. Rave reviews. You could not do better than that IMO. Polk is a mass marketed speaker. Go for the 685s. No brainer. | |
| great sounding cds to audition new speakers Don't just use "great" sounding CDs to audition new loudspeakers but be sure to include the poorer recorded CDs you may have; the older ones that have not as yet been digitally remastered to 20 bit or 24 bit processing with the the latest state of... | |
| Rotel RSX-1058 ..or.. Arcam AVR-350 With regards to universal CD/DVD players, I highly recommend the Marantz DV-6001 Universal CD/DVD/SACD (multi-channel) player with a list price of $499.00 new. Rotel and Arcam both offer Universal players. Rotel has two but neither offer SACD capa... | |
| NAD T775 vs Rotel RSX-1560 Thanks for the great feedback. Wow, nice purchase. Can I ask what you paid for the T775? Powerful unit. | |
| NAD T775 vs Rotel RSX-1560 Just my opinion but having owned and currently own both NAD and Rotel equipment, they are so very close in quality, sound, and performance, it's difficult to make an accurate judgement as to which brand to go with. My guess is that most folks go w... | |
| Upgrading from B&W 601 S2 to ??? If you see a pair of B&W DM603-S3 2-1/2 way floorstanders preowned for about $600.00 to $700.00 ($1K new) and they've been used in a smoke free pet free environment and look great in the photos, go for them. That's what I have and I had upgrad... | |
| Denon vs Rotel for B&W CM1? Yes, I totally agree with and support the feedback from Bnieman. Rotel first of all is not a mass market receiver sold in stores like Best Buy/Magnolia and Expo. Rotel is sold by private higher end professional audio dealers who know this business... | |
| Classé CDP-10 Impressions/Opinions? If you're going to enter the great world of SACDs and you have you have a surround sound system (i.e. 5.1) or plan to, be SURE you buy an SACD player with multi-channel capability. I understand the higher end Marantz SACD players (SA8001) only hav... |