rcprince
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| Best redbook CD playback system for $30k A lot of good advice here, principally on buying used. If you are going to buy new, though, I'll be contrarian and suggest you go to a dealer you trust (I can recommend several in NJ) and listen to systems in your price range and below to see what... | |
| Amp/Preamps to go with Snell B Minors? Although the B Minors are not as generous in the bass as the original Bs, they still would have to be classified as putting out a lot of bass. If you can try a Krell (and we're talking KSA or FPB model, not the KAV line) with your speakers before ... | |
| Refinish speaker in different color I once asked Thiel about staining their teak finish on their CS3s a darker shade to better fit in my living room, and was told the same as Goinbroke stated. Most speakers, like the Thiel, are veneered, so you may be out of luck. | |
| Tubed DAC problems,opinions please. I'd call ARC as well, their customer service is excellent. It sounds like it could be tubes, but if it's in both channels it would be unusual for all the tubes to go bad at once. I have had 6DJ8/6922s (Sovteks) go bad in my Audio Logic, and they c... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Surfgod, Sonny and Cher had a lot of hits, starting with I Got You Babe. They don't count, I'm afraid. How about David Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted"? A great song, but I don't think he ever had another hit. | |
| Your favorite J.S. Bach Christopher Herrick playing the Trio Sonatas on the organ (Hyperion CD). I once asked him which of the trio sonatas was his favorite, and his response was "Whichever one I'm playing at the time!". | |
| Review: Kubala-Sosna Emotion Interconnects Interconnect Follow-up on the interconnects--they're every bit as good as Rgs 92 describes, and possess all of the strengths of the speaker cables. When you first hear them you might think they are rolled at the top (some might prefer a cable more balanced tow... | |
| Helping a friend put together a sub-$1000 system Sounds like good recommendations from you and Ellery911, although the Vandy's, while a good match, are hardly what I'd call monitors. If she wants litle boxes, it's tough to recommend anything if it has to go up against a wall, but Epos and PSB sp... | |
| Jadis DA-60 owners-HELP Please If no one else answers, you can go to Jadis's French website and ask them the question, they may take a few days to reply (get them before the August holidays) but they've been helpful to me in the past. In my JA80s, which are similar, the 12AU7 i... | |
| Kubala-Sosna cables? I added my thoughts to Rgs92's excellent review, if you're interested. Very fine cables. | |
| Review: Kubala-Sosna Emotion Interconnects Interconnect After about a week of listening to the speaker cables, I’m pretty much in agreement with your assessment--very fine review, sir! My system is a four piece system with an active crossover at 220 Hz, biamped (Lamm ML-1s on the top and Sonogy Black K... | |
| Best preamp for Jadis DA-5 under 2,5k Get it, if you can afford it. Only concern you'd have there is it has a lot of tubes (heat and occasional tube replacement), but it's one of a handful of great line stages out there. Won't tend towards the lush or romantic like a Jadis JP80 would ... | |
| Best preamp for Jadis DA-5 under 2,5k If you're only looking for a line stage, I'd suggest a used Jadis JPL or Lamm LL2. Either would be a significant step up sonically from the LS7 (which I actually like quite a bit), and both mate well with Jadis amplifiers and are consummately musi... | |
| Review: Kubala-Sosna Emotion Interconnects Interconnect Rgs, how long did it take for the break-in? I've been listening to the speaker cables this past weekend and have heard definite plusses with a few minuses (none of which would bother the music-lover side of me), and am breaking in the interconnect... | |
| Thiel 3.5 verses Thiel 2 2 David: After looking at your ad, I would not think that the 2 2s (I should not have said 2.2, as Bose sued Thiel over that "point" between the 2s and got Thiel to change the name--sorry, Bose, it won't happen again) would be a substantial improvem... |