peter_s
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| ProAcs or B&W--Not hifi experienced, but luv music Remember - Jane is talking about using a Benchmark DAC with the laptop. This means it is either a USB Dac, or there is a USB->SPDF converter involved. In either case, she should be able to get sound atleast as good as a CD player with that setu... | |
| ProAcs or B&W--Not hifi experienced, but luv music Jane, I would say this: take your time, don't feel pressured in to anything. In this day and age, when so much hifi gear is sold used (on this site), your dealer is lucky to have a client who wants to work with him in the traditional way. He shoul... | |
| ProAcs or B&W--Not hifi experienced, but luv music Dave, I think you are mistaken about using an Ipod as a source. Unless you are talking about buying the new Wadia Ipod digital music extractor and routing that to a good DAC, the output on an ipod is limited to analog using the Ipod's internal DAC... | |
| Best Preamp for Hovland Sapphire Amp and Quads The Quads benefit from the most dynamic equipment available, as they are not so dynamic by nature, it helps atleast to get the upper hand on dynamism upstream. I found that the CAT preamps are very dynamic. I had the Ultimate v1, which was very ni... | |
| Need Advice On Placing Absorption Panel On Ceiling I simply bought 2" thick Owens Corning 703 panels (2'x4'), made 2'x6' wooden frames with 1x2, stuffed 6' worth of panel in each frame, shot nails thru the frames to hold the panels in place, covered the panels with fabric, and hung them from the c... | |
| Crunch time:used preamps $500 I've seen good deals on the Rogue 66. I had this preamp and really liked it - even more than the 99 - simpler circuit. | |
| SPEAKER Cables for QUAD 2805's with VTL 225's mono This sounds like a compelling system! I'll just add this: when I had Quad 988's I was very surprised to find that using a better power cord for the speakers had a considerable positive effect. Who would have thought that keeping the stators charge... | |
| Bridging amps vs single amp of same power I've heard that the 4Bst is significantly better than the 4b, and the 4Bsst is one further step better. Just in case you can swing it. All the Best, Peter | |
| Power amps for Quad electrostatics 2905 Hi Ralph. Zeros may be worth playing with. I tried them with my Cary amps on my 988's, and I must say, I didn't like the effect. Seemed to lose some degree of resolution. I wonder if others have tried them with their tube amps on Quads? | |
| Power amps for Quad electrostatics 2905 I think the newer Quads and the original Quads are different beasts, and what worked for the '57's may not work for the new models. I would also consider some of the top line Quicksilvers that can run EL34's. | |
| Power amps for Quad electrostatics 2905 I had Quad 988's and tried a number of amps, inluding: Quicksilver Triodes (50W 6C33C), Cary SLM-100, Cary SLM-70sig, Wolcott S-220, EAR 509 mkii (509 tube), Odysey Stratos Dual Mono, Aragon 2004. Unless otherwise specified, these amps generally u... | |
| Which speakers will fill 5,000 cubic ft coherently I'm not sure how the Megalines would do with OTL's. | |
| Which speakers will fill 5,000 cubic ft coherently How about Dali Megalines? I've seen them used at 15k, but you will need to biamp and may want to upgrade the Xover. Nevertheless, they will fill your space coherently and are about 10" wide. Check Albert Porter's virtual system here on Agon. | |
| which external hard disc for music storage? Rdc2000 - what is the only way to go???I'd like to expand this discussion to include network access (NAS) drives. NAS is attractive to me because computers often go to sleep while the NAS drives can be accessed from multiple devices and are not at... | |
| Totem Forest or Acoustic Zen Adagio I don't know about synergy with the amp, but I've heard all of these and they are all good speakers. The AZ struck me as being more natural and neutral sounding. I was very impressed by it. |