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| Totem Power - Model 1 Signatures the marantz will not do your totems justice. get a good amp/preamp combination that has a passthru so you can hook your marantz up but have the better sound of the separates. i hooked up my yamaha rxv1 to my model 1's and then my mani's and it was... | |
| Mcintosh 6900/Klipsh Cornwall III - a good match? i think the klipsh are very efficient so the 6300 or 6500 would probably work fine. i used the ma-6500 with some 4-ways and then the totem model 1's and i didn't think there was enough power. i even tried the mc202 with a classe 47.5 preamp and th... | |
| Computer music server PC or Apple???? the setup in my den consists of: totem speakers, definitive technology supercube sub, sony 9000es dvd/cd/sacd, nikko fm tuner, dk design vs-1, adcom gda-700 dac, audio alchemy dti, mac mini, and airport express. i have both the dvp9000es and the a... | |
| Mcintosh 6900/Klipsh Cornwall III - a good match? mcintosh harsh? no way. most people complain that they are too warm or lack highs. krell is harsh. | |
| Best integrates for Totem Model-1 for $1500, look at a classe cap-151, mcintosh 6500, dk design ref 2. | |
| Audio Dealers in Greater Portland OR Area i agree with jamnperry about fred's sound of music. fred's is the only place to buy new totem speakers, so i go out of town to buy mine if i don't buy from audiogon. | |
| Dummy Guide on What's Needed to hook up Mini Mac here is what my den setup consists of:totem speakers, definitive technology supercube sub, nikko fm tuner, sony dvp9000es dvd/cd/sacd player, dk design vs-1, adcom gda-700 dac, audio alchemy dti, mac mini running itunes, and airport express in mul... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards nas is the way to go for storage. imo, get a 4 drive nas system and use raid-5 to setup the nas. this will allow you to use 3 out of the 4 drives for data. even if you go with nas, you will still need a backup. any computer piece can and will fail... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? i mentioned in another thread that macbooks or laptops would not be good for a music server. the reason is they get hot and heat will promote an early death for the computer. after using your macbook for a while, feel the bottom. mine gets very ho... | |
| Best Audiophile Dealer in Greater Portland OR echo audio, pearl audio video, and audio gallery in lake oswego. | |
| Audio Dealers in Greater Portland OR Area i agree with skamok. the others i would recommend are: pearl audio video (very good people and nice sounds), the audio gallery in lake oswego (gary and cindy owners, nice people), and stereotypes. | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards you don't need a pc, mac's have a much better operating system. with 4 macs, you can do a lot of cool stuff for a distributed whole house music system. you can share your itunes from 1 central mac, you can have each mac in a different room playing... | |
| Attractive room treatment is it possible? i use michael greene floor tunes for the first reflections. | |
| Dummy Guide on What's Needed to hook up Mini Mac laptops would be the worst type of computers to use for a constant music source, they get hot, fan gets really noisy, and the life of the computer will be shortened. Heat is the worst thing for a laptop. why do you think they make those cool pads ... | |
| Dummy Guide on What's Needed to hook up Mini Mac jax2 - i don't understand about not using toslink, do that conversion out of the box. what conversion? it is a digital signal coming out of the mini or airport express going into a external dac via a toslink cable. no different than going out a us... |