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| Merlin vsm mme owners, Cardas cabling Question. The speakers have never sounded better with the MasterBAM and RCs in place - I can't imagine that every SuperBam owner would not think the upgrade well worth it; just one more step in the full realization of the VSM's evolution. | |
| Merlin vsm mme owners, Cardas cabling Question. Interesting, John Dunlavy would proabably have suggested that all cables basically sound the same, he proabably would have recommended large guage zipcord. | |
| Recomendations Please Don't the amp is the issue. Room optimization first. Then a move to the 3A Sig, if that doesn't quite do it for you. Not sure the 2wqs are really about more bass, as much as increasing sense of space and better mid-range performance by removing de... | |
| Merlin vsm mme owners, Cardas cabling Question. I think the Fila/Merlin combo is world-class and a no-brainer recommendation for a relatively low-cost SOTA system. Certainly a get-off-the-merry-go-round system. I miss the Fila, but as you can see, I have a bit too much equipment to have kept it. | |
| Mapletree Audio versus Decware preamps I am looking for an amp that adds a little tube warmth, as I use a Lightspeed Attenuator with my Music Reference RM10 and RM9 SE amps, and it is about as neutral and transparent as any preamp I have ever heard - like a direct connect between sourc... | |
| solid state vs tubes Agree with Magfan and Mapman 100%. Choose the speaker you love, that will (ought to) guide you to the best amp for you, SS or tubes. Be careful of equipment reviews or opionions outside of system context, it makes all the difference. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I think this is beyond the reach of logic, it is simply a matter of trying it within the system context as you proscribe and listening for yourself. With all the preamps I have tried (most $5,000+ tube preamps)I've concluded that most negative com... | |
| Preamplifier power supply I can think of hundreds of scenarios where an active linestage is necessary (as I can think of just as many scenarios were SETs will sound terrible). But the question remains, if you have plenty of gain, low capacitance cables, 100kohm input imped... | |
| solid state vs tubes I would imagine the amps are not the primary bottlenecks to recorded music sounding real, and no amount of progress in the amp arena is going to make a big difference in that direction. That is ok though, I can't listen to Coltrane at the club dow... | |
| Ei Gold Elite Premium tubes& Music Reference Amp This is a very old post and times have changed. The Genalex Gold Lion EL84s, which you can get matched from Roger, are the best new production EL84s available. Roger is quite enthisiatic about these in the RM10s. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, the "passive" "active" debate seems to me more problematic the the tube versus SS debate, for in the latter, there remains room for both to coexist. The passive argument, if right, threatens manufacturers of active preamps, reviewers and m... | |
| Review: Concert Fidelity CF-080 Preamplifier Just a buffer then? or something else going on there? | |
| Merlin vsm mme owners, Cardas cabling Question. Masilu, did you actually hear Atma pre/amp combo with Merlin? The answer to that question ("who wants...") might be answered when having both in that setup; which of course does not mean that the Fila/Merlin combo is not fantastic, it is, but I do... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, is it your view that the Buffering used in preamps, and passives like the BENT, The Truth, or the First Watt B1 is there for handling worst case scenarios - long or high capacitance interconnects, or amps with low input impedances, but whe... | |
| Any experience with the new EMM CDSA SE ? I do too, but I wasn't sure if that had to do with the position of my attenuator being further advance to the 12-2 position, or if the lower gain setting had inherently lower S/N, as would be the case with a preamplifier (I think). |