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| Big Stupid Warm Speakers You might want to investigate the Harbeth or Spendor line of speakers, which tend to be very warm and musical, and can have reasonably large woofers. For a bit tighter bass but keeping some warmth, Von Schweikerts come to mind. I concur with the V... | |
| PrimaLuna ProLogue One versus Two Thanks for those comments. Now on to the next part: Have any of you started rolling any of the tubes? | |
| Passive Bi-Amping-Amps With Level control Can't you just adjust the integrated amp's output to match whatever solid state is on bottom, then introduce a preamp (preferably passive) upstream of both amps to control the output from your source level? Otherwise you could consider the adjusta... | |
| Von Schweikert VR-4,Jr. Elb - I have compared Magnepan to VSA, though not exactly using the VR4Jr. I owned MG3.6 for about 3 years. I really enjoyed them, but ultimately missed some of the "body" and "impact" of box speakers. Yet most box speakers sounded, well, "boxy". ... | |
| Cardas Neutral Ref vs Harmonic Tech Pro 9 Plus I've come to a similar conclusion as Mitch2 above regarding Cardas. I like Neutral Ref for speaker cables, and for part of the IC's (preamp to amp), but prefer at least one run of Golden Ref IC's in the system (usually CDP to preamp), in order to ... | |
| SS/Mono Amps Warm,Musical,Detailed Gamut amps are not exactly warm, but are very musical, detailed, and 3D -- almost on the level of a good tube amp. Really quite unique-sounding in my experience, and I've heard the majority of SS amps. Go for the Mk3 version though, since the earl... | |
| EMM Labs on Bad Redbook Agreed. You are better off buying a secondary, mass market $200 player with rolled-off treble to play those early CD's, and use your high-end CDP for the better recordings. | |
| Review: Emm Labs DCC2 DA converter Tireguy - could you comment on the ways in which the DCC2 bettered the Accuphase DP-75V? | |
| Anybody using a Power Conditioner with Wadia 861 I am using a Foundation Research LC1 power cord/filter on my Wadia 861. I tried a number of power cords and/or power filters on this CDP, but kept coming back to the LC1. It just seems to preserve dynamics and detail better, while cleaning up the ... | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? Like one post already above, I bought a Denon DCD-1500 in 1986. I still have it (in a secondary system), it still works well, and still sounds pretty good. | |
| Wadia 861, Levinson 390S, or EMC1MKII Dbk: I agree with the Wadia 861 supporters. I have the 861-Basic with GNS Reference Upgrade. It's not the top 861, nor does it have the "ultimate" GNS mod (=Statement), yet to my ears it is more musical than your alternatives (both which I have di... | |
| ML333 VS Concentra II If you generally like the Levinson sound, just go with one of their newer amps. You might be disappointed in the bass of the Rowland... excessively warm and round. However, the mids/highs of the Concentra-II are quite musical. Or, just wait for th... | |
| Help me understand the Cardas line of ICs I've gone back and forth between GRef and NRef more times than I care to admit, and I think these are Cardas' best. They both provide a coherent musical picture. I agree with Nighthawk that NR is not neutral on an absolute scale, but is actually s... | |
| Does balanced interconnect sound beter than RCA? Aside from the interesting technical analysis given above, to my ears there are consistent sonic differences between the two that are neither good nor bad, just different flavors. I have owned SE systems and fully balanced systems. Most relevant f... | |
| Which Passive Preamp --Bent Audio or Placette ? I would add another passive to this list: The Sonic Euphoria autoformer, which I recently bought and enjoy. While I have not compared this directly to a true transformer preamp like Bent, a well-designed autoformer is said to preserve bass dynamic... |