rcprince
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| Powerful but "emotional" amps? How about Quicksilvers? The three you mention are excellent, but more towards the "accurate" side of tube equipment, not Quickies. Other possibilities might be Cary or older VAC and CJ amps, used, but I don't know about their availability at that ... | |
| Speaker Cable for Alon II Part of the answer depends on the amplification you're using; you might list your amps to give people more of a frame of reference. A friend of mine uses Dunlavy ZAL 6 speaker cable between his Acurus DIA and the Alons, sounds quite good. The Blac... | |
| Opinions on Meitner MTR-101 Amps??? John Wright at EMM Labs (Ed Meitner's company) was the person whom I contacted, but I recall receiving a piece of mail or e-mail from him recently saying he had left there. I'll see if I still have it in my office on Monday. Possible Ed Meitner mi... | |
| Theil 3.5's...Tubes or SS? Just bought a used pair Actually, Unsound, no offense taken--I would not doubt the Krell KMA 160s would sound great on the Thiels, as I was always fond of that generation of Krells, but not one of the first production run, just taken new out of the box and plugged in for... | |
| CAT phono versus SP-6A phono Interesting post and comparison; guess that's why the SP6 is so well regarded even today. In answer to your last question, I would suggest that of the preamps I've listened to over the years the ones that best combine accuracy and musicality are t... | |
| Theil 3.5's...Tubes or SS? Just bought a used pair I'll agree with Jameswei to some extent, with a caveat and an observation. The 3.5s are still good sounding speakers, and can use a good powerful amp to drive them, but their tonal balance is tilted towards the treble and thus care should be taken... | |
| Power Cords with built in RF reduction? I think Siltech uses ferrite filters in its power cords to suppress RFI. | |
| Power cord and Sony SCD-1 I'd suggest either the TG SLVR at the high end of your price range (which is the most I want to spend on these things as well) or the cable Bigkidz is referring to, a very well-thought-out design at a comparatively low price with which I am replac... | |
| Opinion of Avalon Speakers or Alternataives The old Avalon Ascents were among my favorite speakers, very musical and a holographic soundstage. My only complaints about them were they needed more power than my JA80s could give them and, at their then-list price, I would expect deeper bass re... | |
| Have anyone pics and tech-data for a SU-1 step-up? Mine had a list price of $3500 when I bought it in the early 1990s. Got it used then for what I sold it for 3 years later. I did not know of any subsequent price increase; indeed, I doubt if there was any change to it, not much you could change, s... | |
| Top Ten Speakers of All Time? Muralman, I was going to ask you about them, but I figured you were a ribbon purist! | |
| Cult Classics for Young Future Audiophile Scott, good practical thinking! Add an original Adcom GFA 555 as a possible amp as well, my son has been using that since he was a teenager with the preamp portion of an NAD 7225 and loves it. | |
| Cult Classics for Young Future Audiophile Very interesting post! For the amp/preamp, how about an NAD 3020? I really like the idea of the Maggies for the speakers if they work with the NAD, otherwise maybe some Spica TC-50s, Vandersteen 1s or old ARs? For the digital source, while I'd lik... | |
| Have anyone pics and tech-data for a SU-1 step-up? I'll add in that a number of years back I had an SU-1 in my system when I had one of the original Transfiguration cartridges with its miniscule output--not even my JP-80's MC stage had enough gain to play it without tube noise problems. The SU-1 a... | |
| Kharma Reference Monitors As an Audio Logic fan, I wouldn't be too quick to replace that unit--see my review on the upgrades to the unit Jerry Ozment is doing involving transformer coupling, a $660 upgrade that, as each day goes by, is sounding better and better to me. Now... |