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| Love for music shatter by highend equipment When I had a tube preamp in my system, "Supernatural" on CD actually sounded pretty darn good. I haven't played it since I switched to a solid state preamp, but would imagine that it's still pretty listenable because most other recordings sound fi... | |
| Love for music shatter by highend equipment Natalie, I can appreciate your sentiments as well as the next person, but if you truly practice what you preach what are you doing hanging out here? Comic relief, or what?T1hub -- my you are quite the poser aren't you? Why don't you just have your... | |
| Love for music shatter by highend equipment Yes -- and Anna may just come-a-runnin' when she finds out you can afford Compass Lake! :) | |
| Love for music shatter by highend equipment Gthrush1, in your particular case, a lot of self-flagellation with the aforementioned Siltech Compass Lake wires may heighten your experience to extatic proportions. :) | |
| Love for music shatter by highend equipment It is kind of crazy that folks get caught up in the high end to the extreme of discarding CD's that don't sound good enough to bother playing on their "high-resolution" rigs. Something does seem to be askew with some audiophiles' sense of prioriti... | |
| Maggie 3.6 amplification concern Sean, First of all, have you yourself tried either of the units I mentioned in your own system?Secondly, as you must know, all tube amps and preamps produce even order harmonic distortion -- though I would hardly misconstrue that their design goal... | |
| Maggie 3.6 amplification concern aj,You may be missing the point of the tube line buffers. Think of these units as running the signal through a high quality tube preamp (that lacks a volume control) and provides a better impedance match with the amp. If you really think about thi... | |
| Maggie 3.6 amplification concern aj,You can get a pic and a brief description of the Z-man ASE (analog signal enhancer) at the following link: http://www.hometeam.com/ehonline/newsprod.9804.shtmlIt used to sell for $200 or thereabouts, but I'm not sure whether or not it is curren... | |
| Maggie 3.6 amplification concern I'm with Phil on this. You need power and control with the Maggies and only solid state will give you that. In my bi-amped InnerSound system I use the 600 Wpc InnerSound amp to drive the woofers and the Monarchy Audio SE-160 Class-A hybrid monoblo... | |
| Electrostatic speaker cables... InnerSound makes good high performance, reasonably priced speaker cables designed specifically for electrostatic speakers. I use them on my Eros system with great results. | |
| I need quick help- Bi-amp Threshold/McIntosh Tom -- now you're confusing me... Perhaps you've misinterpreted something I said in my last post. If you're buying a more powerful stereo amp with two sets of outputs for each channel, the main benefit is the extra power. The additional outputs I ... | |
| I need quick help- Bi-amp Threshold/McIntosh First of all, Richard is completely wrong in his statement that bi-amping would give you twice the power. It would only possibly do that if one amp was twice as powerful as the other one -- and only in the frequency band in which it was used. In a... | |
| I need quick help- Bi-amp Threshold/McIntosh Trich, in view of the very high probability that the MC2700 has a different input sensitivity than the Threshold amp, you will probably be creating a level-matching problem if you go that route. You would likely have to address this issue with any... | |
| Anyone own Innersound Speakers? I have to agree with what Audiokinesis has said but would like to add a couple of thoughts. I have owned both the original Eros, and now, the latest version of the Mk-II. In my view, the latest Mk-II integrated preamp/active crossover/bass amp is ... | |
| Best sound at Stereophile show. Tekunda, you pose an intriguing question, "How can opinions on sound quality differ so much?" Of course it depends on one's listening biases, his/her individual hearing curve, and familiarity (like or disdain) for the particular music being played... |