philjolet
Responses from philjolet
| Music Hall CD25, Onix XCD-88, Rega Planet; Others? The Rega Planet is a full/warm sounding CD player and nicely musical in my experience... | |
| Tube integrated w/ phono Audio Note Soro SE or Oto about $1300 used. | |
| CDP to replace vinyl fugedaboutit! | |
| 1st, most memorable recording... Billy Cobham 'Spectrum' LP on homemade Electrovoice horn speakers at very loud volumes.... | |
| Something warmer than the Nordost Quattro Fil? FWIW Audio Note cable was considerably smoother on my system (all Audio Note tube gear) than Audience AU 24. | |
| Your vote: Most Useless Audio Adjective not an adjective but the phrase 'what do you think?" as opposed to listening yourself. DOOHHH! (spoken like Homer):^) | |
| Something warmer than the Nordost Quattro Fil? You will probably not get much other info on Audio Note but I stand by them. Try the AN-VX interconnects, I assure you they have terrific openess and detail with no brightness - only beautiful tone in spades.... | |
| Amp with a hard,clean and cold sound... Innersound ESL | |
| Suggestions on an integrated amp for Merlin TSMM There is an Audio Note Soro SE for sale on Agon right now. This is easily in the same league as the Manley Stingray and better as far as I am concerned. Give it a try... | |
| McIntosh SS Amps - Old vs New - Sonics I recently heard the 402 and (being a tube guy myself) it sounded darn good and I can not believe the old stuff can touch it in any way - though I did not compare it to any of their old gear. | |
| Longer Power Cords Sound better? Vince at Plinius swears by 10 foot length for power cords as sounding best, I have no idea myself... | |
| Pass X1 / X250 - how to get a bit foregivable ??? I owned JMR Trentes and they were the most listenable speakers I have ever heard, never harsh in the slightest. I used an Audio Note Soro SE tube amp with 18 watts per channel. Why do you need the ss Pass? the only Pass amp I heard (X150 I think i... | |
| SET AMP TO MATCH SPEAKERS try: Audionotekits.com | |
| retro but quality amp for ESL 57's NAD 3020 will work and was a popular choice when it first came out, worth a listen. | |
| Jumpers - How good do they really have to be? FWIW I just went from single run with silver jumpers to bi wire of the same stuff (AN Lexus) and the improvement is great with better integration between the drivers and better tone and the music flies out of the speakers where the single run was ... |