porchlight1
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| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric No one mentioned Yamaha? I have owned my Yamaha CD-S2100 for some six years now and it has operated and sounded flawlessly. I expected it to sound fantastic with SACD but wasn’t prepared for how it reproduced Red Book CD. It may not weigh as much... | |
| Recommend an MC cartridge I have been selling and installing (and inspecting under a stereoscopic microscope) cartridges since the late 80’s. My experience has shown that Ortofon cartridges are by far the most consistent in manufacturing. So much so, that, after dialing t... | |
| Sonus Faber Electa Amator III vs. the Bowers and Wilkins 805 D4? Thanks for all the responses gentlemen! In the meantime I went to a dealer in Ann Arbor, MI. They didn’t have the SF Electa Amator III but they did have the SF Maxima Amator floorstander on demo. Same drivers as the EA III, but completely differ... | |
| Beautiful Colored Tube Preamp ($10k budget) to Pair w/ Very Accurate Monitors (PSI A25M) My vote would be for the Luxman CL-38uC. Complete with basic remote (volume and mute), full MM/MC phono pre with step-up transformers on the MC input, bass and treble controls with selectable turnover frequencies, a tape loop, and balanced inputs ... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Absolutely the McIntosh MC275, new at $6500 retail. I have the first MC275 reissue, the Gordon Gow Commemorative, since new in 1993. Specs are 75 WPC but routinely tests at 90 WPC plus. Believe it or not, I’m only on my third set of output tubes... |