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| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? Clio09 I definitely like the new P3 Power Plant in my digital system. In my smaller tube system I use a Monarchy Audio P100 (sounds really sweet but has low power output) to power my digital sources with great results. Keep in mind you don't want ... | |
| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? ClioO9, okay, fair enough, but ALL the tweaks I've mentioned (cables, chassis diffusion, and AC conditioning) make positive improvements in EVERY system and on nearly every product I've experimented with. But I can agree that most product offering... | |
| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? Okay, ClioO9, You're right, we are not going to agree. But I want to make a couple of points. First, yes, perhaps direct-coupled OTL amps are a little less muddled than other types (I have owned the Atma-sphere M60 Mk3.1's btw as well as highly-mo... | |
| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? With all due respect, Charles1dad from your reply my feeling is that you've just never heard digital or solid-state done right.But here is a possible explanation. With solid-state gear those who don't like it normally feel this way because of its ... | |
| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? I don't think so Stringreen. I've been in this hobby 40 years and have been a reviewer for over 15 years so I have a lot of experience with such things.All I know is that as my Mojo Audio power cords continue to break in, the sound is getting incr... | |
| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? I have a really refined system, one that I've made countless improvements in from power delivery to chassis tuning to optimization of cabling...It's really interesting because I have two systems and one uses a tube amp and preamp while the other u... | |
| Anyone have experience with Innersound speakers Well, as a former Eros and Eros Mk-II owner, I don't know how they compare to the Thiels but they did not have the best dynamic contrasts or bass extension and power. Plus they are extremely directional and have a minuscule sweet spot.I'd personal... | |
| Frequency Response 30Hz to 30kHz is not standard, although it is good. It is also meaningless without qualifying it with +/- however many dB's.You should do some reading because you clearly don't understand this or how it would relate to sound quality. But generally... | |
| Does Anyone Have a Traveling System? I'm with Mateored on this. I use a 14-inch IBM Lenovo laptop with a pair of Sennheiser HD595 headphones and that works very well for me.I am supposed to be getting a pair of HiFiMAN HE-400 headphones for review soon, so maybe I'll wind up upgradin... | |
| Good amp for Tekton lore s speakers? The "Large Glass Room" is your problem. Without changing that or adding room treatments, getting a good Equalizer and knocking down the treble might be a good way to go. I had a dbx 1231 that worked pretty well for me and was pretty smooth and mus... | |
| Best 2-way room friendly speakers Tekton Lore series... I own the Lore-S and it is wonderful in my 11 x 14 room. It has front firing bass ports that don't load the room as much as models with side-woofers or rear-firing ports. | |
| Innersound Electrostatic amp driving Quad esl 57's Rmarcus5757, do you mean to say the InnerSound amp has a "Power Limiter" that limits the power of this 600 watt amp to around 50 watts/channel just for Quads? Hmmm, that's the first I've heard of this! Maybe the channels are fused and you can chan... | |
| new system/older equipment I've gotten really good results with my Lenovo laptop using a NuForce Icon HD USB DAC/headphone amp. It's the same DAC they use in their $1500 CD player and in my system it rocks. It can currently be bought new for around $300 on Amazon or NuForce... | |
| Help with Acoustat Model 1 + 1 Yeah, I think the 1+1 does need lots of power and you should leave them plugged in all the time. If that bothers you, you might want to look for other speakers.The Acoustat TNT200 should be more capable than your HK amp. I used a Hafler DH500 on m... | |
| wyred4sound dac hookup to receiver You can hook the outputs of the W4S to the Front Right and Front Left 6-channel inputs and use the DAC's volume control to control volume although it may or may not bypass the receiver's volume control (I don't have the manual so I'm not sure). Th... |