raquel
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| Rowland Amps with MBL Speakers vs. All MBL System You raise a good question, as the mbl speakers pose special problems for amps due to their unusually low sensitivity, at +/-81 db./watt. If you look at the threads, you'll see that there is much support for CAT amps with the mbl omnidirectional sp... | |
| Are MOSFET's voltage, not current, devices? Guys: Thanks. | |
| Best Dac/Transport Under 50,000 If you were able to take a vote, my guess is that more people on this website would choose the Meitner DAC and transport as being the best for redbook CD playback than they would any other CD player or DAC/transport combo.You may not ultimately ch... | |
| Good musical speakers that go low? Help Drken: My apologies to the extent this exchange hijacks your thread. Sbrtoy:I have run my Mahlers at various times with a Bryston 4B-ST and VAC Renaissance 140/140's Mk. III's, but mostly with Rowland Model 6 monos, which can each dump forty-five ... | |
| Good musical speakers that go low? Help Regarding the above post about Vienna Acoustics Mahlers and their bass performance, I have Mahlers in my second system and really love the speakers, but it is incorrect to say that they excel at the reproduction of deep bass (40 Hz. and below). In... | |
| VA Beethovens upgrade to Strauss experience/advice If you are in the U.S., I think the best place to start with your questions would be Sumiko, the U.S. distributor.PS - I own Mahlers. | |
| Tonearm Cable:different from regular IC? Best one? While standard IC's will work as tonearm cables, a dedicated tonearm cable is indeed a different animal (at the very least, they have better shielding). And while your system will only be as good as your weakest link, the tonearm cable, because of... | |
| Best Pre-amp for Bryston 4BST A dealer talked me into a Bryston 4B-ST / ARC LS-3 preamp combo, saying that the synergy was particularly good. Now, ten years and many different (and much more expensive) systems later, I can say that he was right. Particularly when used with goo... | |
| BEST 90's Audio Gear that holds its own today. Rowland Model 6, 8Ti and 9Ti solid-state amps. Rowland Coherence II solid-state preamp.There is a lot of gear from the 90's that is still very competitive, especially amps and preamps. I think it's fair to say that the major advances have mostly t... | |
| Mark levinson 360s DAC...??? I owned a 360s. A warm operating temperature is perfectly normal. | |
| ARC LS25 or Pass Labs X1?? Forgive me for not responding to the question you posed ("ARC LS25 or Pass Labs X1??"), but consider the following: I had to sell a CAT Mk. III preamp because of its high gain which, combined with the sensitive inputs of my VAC Renaissance 140/140... | |
| How to maximize Dynaudio Special 25s I have never owned Special 25's, but I did own 3.3's which are similar, and found that VAC's Renaissance 140/140 Mk. III's had a particular synergy with them, sounding much better than Rowland Model 6's run from batteries or a Bryston 4B-ST. For w... | |
| mbl 101 E versus Von Schweikert VR-7 SE I can't comment upon the comparative sound quality, never having heard the VS's, but I do note that the mbl is unusually inefficient (and far less efficient than the very efficient VS), greatly limiting your choice of amplifiers. | |
| Kimber Select 3033 versus 3035 and 3038 I would suggest that a bit of skepticism is in order whenever someone whom you do not know claims that they have fully broken in a cable, component or speaker that requires many hundreds of hours of break-in time. For example, logging 750 hours on... | |
| CAT amps........Opinions please Everything Jfox wrote about the CAT amps is true -- they are probably in a league of their own as far as powerful tube amplifiers go -- very special. While all of the CAT amps are top of the class and you can't go wrong, my best hi-fi friend owns ... |