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| Best system for opera lover at $30,000 You don't need to spend $30k to enjoy recorded opera. But it would be easy to spend $30k and be disappointed. Being able to lose yourself in your favorite performance of a five hour Wagnerian opera on a reasonably priced system in your home presen... | |
| Best system for opera lover at $30,000 At 30K total there will be significant trade offs, particularly in what you might compromise. I think it would be very easy to leave your friend disappointed. Several very important considerations. First, how much experience with live opera do the... | |
| Please recommend Tube pre-amp(s) to pjpoland, I've owned several high end ARC,CJ and Melos tube preamps over the years as well as Jolida and EAR. There are significant variations in sound dependent on the tube sets. For the high end stuff, after experimentation I usually stick wi... | |
| BEST sites - buying used high end gear I have made over two dozen purchases on Audiogon over the last few months with no problems. They have included deals in the thousands of dollars. | |
| Spectral Amp Carl I'm glad you are so sure of your self. Your taste for clever veiled peronal insults on your various posts is ill-becoming. My more tentative posts come from my experiences that things aren't always so clear. Different combos sound different. ... | |
| Wilson v Sonus Faber I seriously considered the Sonus Fabers and made extensive listening comparisons at Music Lovers in Berkeley. While the Wilson's were not in that shop I have listened to them elswhere and they aren't to my taste (neither are the B&W or Vanders... | |
| Best guy to fix all electronics In the Bay Area I highly recommend Resistance Repair in Berkeley. Only carry in but he has been in business for over 15 years and does great work on all sorts of high end electronics. | |
| Spectral Amp Carl I think it is fairly dependent on the DAC-Poweramp combo. As in the pair of our posts on the topic of passive preamps... How much difference you hear will depend on the specific combo. | |
| Spectral Amp I heard the spectral amp/preamp driven by the Wadia CD player at a dealer when I was listining to Revels. I asked if the CD could drive the amps directly and was told they tried it and that the music sounded lifeless. This matches my own experienc... | |
| best 2 channels power amp around $3k? I would strongly recommend used equipment which ever you choose. For solid state I like Threshold or Bryston but I'm really a tube fan myself, ARC Conrad Johnson or Melos. On my Dunlavy SC V's at home, all of these have sounded different. It's goi... | |
| will m-l cls' electrostatics ROCK??? I recently auditioned the Innersound Eros with their amp in my home. My room is 22x26. I was astonished at the sound of Metallica and JP on these things. They played LOUD. Add a sub at about 45 and you will have to spend a lt more to be happy in m... | |
| Opinions on Vandersteen 5's The 5's are designed and voiced on the Audio Research VT 200 | |
| Passive vs. active preamps I have both active and passive preamps and drive monoblocks with short interconnects. Carl eber above nails the difference. My only caveat is that a passive attenuator like http://www.tweakaudio.com/ or and Adcom costs A LOT less than a reference ... | |
| What is the best digital interconnect I have Illuminations Orchid, Synergy Designer Ref and Illuminations D 60. All are excellent, but they all sound different and I prefer different ones with different equipment combinations. AES/EBU and RCA also do sound different. I bet you could l... | |
| CODA Equipment I audition some of their equipment with the Innersound Eros Electrostats. It is my understanding that Coda makes the electronics, that is the power amp and woofer amp for Innersound. I also tried the preamp. I liked the sound on all of the equipme... |