rbirke
Responses from rbirke
| What's the Least You Could Live With? with $200 a Panasonic portable and a pair of Grado SR 80'swith $800, a b-stock NAD L-40 (cd/amp/tuner/pre), b-stock soliloquy sat-5's from underwoodwally, and $5/foot speaker cable (this is what i have in my office)with $3000, used bryston integra... | |
| Who knows about ACOUSTIC ZEN? AZ is easy to like. I can't imagine going too far wrong with it, but it's not a cureall to a flawed system.I am running a biwired set of Satori shotguns between a Bryston integrated and Soliloquy 5.0's. The Satori replaced a singled run of Tara Ma... | |
| monitor w/ bass? My Soliloquy 5.0's produce a lot of bass, driven by a Bryston B60 (60 watts into 8 ohms). They are excellent speakers for the price (about 900 w/o stands). They are also pretty efficient -- I haven't ever cranked the B60 past 1 o'clock on the dial... | |
| Have you "lied" to yourself? Here's a list of upgrades and the differences I noticed, by category:AMP:Luxman integrated to Bryston 4B NRB -- HUGEBryston 4B to Bryston 7B-ST -- sound difference was noticeable, esp. in highs, biggest difference was that I never clipped againPRE... | |
| BEST SPEAKER FOR BRYSTON 7B ST,,, hales rev 3's -- reasonable price allows you to go to a tube preampmy system -- 7b-st's, rogue 99, tara interconnect/speaker cables, meridian 508-24, blue circle power pillow, various cords, etci listed to everything -- lots of bass heavy electron... | |
| Best Preamp w/ Headphone Jack Melos, is excellent. Best headphone amp I ever heard (or had). I now have a Rogue 99, all around a better preamp, but very inefficient with phones (have to turn the volume to 8 or 9 to get moderate sound), and the jack is inconveniently placed in ... | |
| Bargain power conditioners I've been very happy with my Blue Circle Power Pillow. I don't use it for my amps, but everything else (pre/cd/table) are running through it. Smooth and non-limiting. I can't recall the price, but less than $500 for sure. |