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| Vandersteen 3A OR Alon 2 MK2 Vandy 3A sig's are excellent, I have a pair. IMO they are the abosolute best value in high end audio!! | |
| Best upgrade for the money ? Well, as usual with this hobby we've run the gambit with opinions so here's mine for what it's worth. I would replace the speakers last, after you have addressed aftermarket cords, possibly dedicated lines to your system unless this is too much of... | |
| Satellite Interconnects Bagwell, what kind of reciever are you using? I was renting a one from Directv, I originally had an RCA 32 bit processor receiver. They changed that out when I got local networks to a hughes. The sound and picture quality on my Pioneer elite was d... | |
| Best Retailer Youve Done Business With? Sound and Cinema, formerly Audio Solutions in Atlanta - great guy and Overture in Delaware. Both stores have worked for me. | |
| speaker upgrade Give a listen to Proac 3.8's, around $7500. | |
| Theil/Classe 6, and listener fatigue The Rotel, I have one as a backup and recently replaced a Meridian transport with it while the Meridian was being fixed and my warm system - CJ pre, Classe amp, and Mit cables got considerably brighter. MIT or Cardas and a new CD source will difin... | |
| Severe Imaging Problem David, it sounds like you've tried this already but it sounds to me like a phase problem. I have an inverting preamp so I swap the leads at the speakers. I have experimented both ways with the speaker cables and on some recordings it makes a huge ... | |
| Rolling Stones remasters Kira, I have the following Stones remasters - Exile on Main St., Sticky Fingers, and Goats Head Soup. They are all supremely better. These are remastered by Bob Ludwig using the Apogee UV22 blah, blah, blah. They are a big improvement, especially ... | |
| Interconnects for Tube amps I am also a MIT fan/user. I use shotgun medium impedance with CJ Prem 17 preamp and Classe 200 and 750 speaker cables. I started out with Music Link 10 years ago (prenetwork boxes). Upgraded to 330's and last year shotguns. Watch it Lamapp - INCOM... | |
| Preamp for Classe CA400 and Confidence 5 I would recomend without hesitation a CJ Premier 17 or possibly the new 14LS, it isn't out yet so it needs to be heard first obviously. For $2500 you might look for a used Premier 14 which has been discontinued - it is a classic CJ preamp. The 17 ... | |
| Why does it sound less dynamic? I second the point Mmkwf made about the cable between the transport and dac - it is without a doubt the single biggest improvement in cabling that I have ever made and I've made a bunch. BTW I have been using illuminati for several years now and c... | |
| Why does it sound less dynamic? I think Joe and No_money are right on - I recently had to send my Meridian 200 transport in for repairs and substituted a Rotel 855 driving my Meridian DAC and the sound worsened considerably! The soundstage really suffered, much as you have descr... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-14 Anyone?? I contacted CJ and according to them these won't be shipping into the marketplace until late November. Retailers have slicks with specifications so you can get a look. | |
| 3-D Imaging: How?? Everything contributes to the depth of the soundstage, cables, equipment, treatment, etc. MIT shotguns are imaging animals, both laterally and front to back. When I switched pc's from a Synergistic master coupler to the BMI EEL reference on my Cla... | |
| Top Ten Tube PreAmp of all time? CJ PV10 huge bang for the buck - even better is the Premier 17LS. |