pubul57
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| First Post, Looking to buy Amp& Pre, $7,000 Interesting you mentioned Odyssey - I forgot about them. I liked them very much when I heard them at a show, and they are unbelievable value (for the high end). That is definitely a company worth looking at for high quality, great sounding SS, wit... | |
| amp or preamp most important Totally agree with TVAD and it is much easier to screw up an amp purchase than a preamp purchase (for the most part). Having said that, both pale in comparison to the importance of the speaker (and room) in determing the overall sound and quality ... | |
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 How would you use the HDMI? | |
| First Post, Looking to buy Amp& Pre, $7,000 I do stand by my Pass Integrated recommendation, but I do want you to understand that a SIM integrated is just as worthy of your consideration, if you want it to match with your phonostage. You absolutely cannot go wrong with either brand, they ar... | |
| First Post, Looking to buy Amp& Pre, $7,000 I would look to a Pass Labs Integrated - that should be plenty of power and there are few that do SS as well as Pass. That being said, a SIM integrated should also be an excellent match. I don't know the Denon, so I can't speak toward the "huge im... | |
| Hard Drive versus Optical Drive That's the thing Tony, we are not exactly computer illiterate or phobic and yet we (I agree) feel confounded; it seems like audiophiles are going to have difficulty with this until they make it really much simpler, and with some standards for best... | |
| MAC Autoformers? The reason I though the autoformer was a good thing is that my speaker manufacturer (Merlin)suggested that if I want to add an SS am (I own two tube amps that I switch around)to consider the MacIntosh with the autoformers, which is interesting in ... | |
| MAC Autoformers? You have to admit this is confusing. Now it seems that Mac uses the autoformers in the "higher end" units. Why would the do that if it hurt performance? I can't imagine they don't have technical competence and the autoformer is some kind of bandai... | |
| What is your favorite tube for a preamplifier ? Well, one of my favourite preamps (Atma-sphere) uses 6sn7s, but my other favourite tube preamp (Joule) uses 6350s which I never heard of - I think they were designed for TVs, not sure, but it sure does make for a nice sound preamp. My other tube p... | |
| MAC Autoformers? I'm not even sure what the autoformer does. It seems like an effort to provide the same level of power no matter what the impedance load of the speaker is - which in theory sounds like a good thing. But I don't understand much of this. I did not k... | |
| Hard Drive versus Optical Drive Ah. Now I understand the theoretical advantage in terms of getting bit perfect reads, but it does sound like a theory that has little practical effect and is likely to be overridden by other factors, such as power supply and regulation in a qualit... | |
| Ia a good amp more important than a good DAC? The problem is not that there are not differences, but that they are much smaller than you would think given the price differences, and more misleadingly, the definitive judgements for claiming superiority of one product over the another; espciall... | |
| Hard Drive versus Optical Drive Other than the convenience of storing, archiving, and selecting music through a computer interface, is there no reliable information to suggest why a computer hard drive would be a better source, in terms of sound quality, than dedicated audio tra... | |
| New speaker help. Proac-Spendor-Harbeth-Devore-PMC It too think you have alot of good speakers on your list. Given your use of low/medium powered tube amps, I would recommend you also consider the Merlin TSMs. Not sure what the British sound is, a mid-bass bump? The Merlins are highly resolving, v... | |
| Pure Class A shootout "more important isssue"? |