rcprince
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| Audio Research SP-11 MK2 ... I owned an SP-11 mk II for a number of years. In its time it was one of the best preamplifiers available, and it gave me a lot of pleasure. It is still good, but I believe it to be surpassed by the better preamps out there now (I replaced it aroun... | |
| Recommendations for Speakers that sound like Snell Gotta agree with the other posters. You probably can sell the speakers fairly readily for a price that will not come close to what they are worth sonically (in many people's view, including mine, the speakers are classics), and to get something at... | |
| Sirius radio quality vs redbook cd player It's OK for listening in the car, but comparing it in my car to both FM and CD it is not nearly as good. It seems to have a brightness and hashy highs to it now that I never noticed in my last car (traded in during March). Still, for listening on ... | |
| Where to buy Paradigm inwalls in North NJ area? Northern NJ covers a good-sized area. If he's near Allendale, Talk of the Town Video in Allendale appears to be an authorized Paradigm dealer. Nice folks too, excellent equipment and demonstration facilities. | |
| Does anyone know the value of BEL 1001 MKV? To get an idea you should subscribe to the Audiogon Blue Book. | |
| Mercury Living Presence Sabai, which recording are you referring to--the Harmonia Mundi on Linn ReKut? I'm not sure if they're still available. | |
| Playback Designs MPD3 or Simaudio 650d The only due diligence you really need to do now is to audition the Simaudio player, though if what you heard with the Playback Designs really blew you away, I'd say go for it. Sometimes you hear a component that you know is "right"--that's happen... | |
| ARC SP-6 Warmup time Why not call ARC? They were always very helpful when I would call them about the ARC amps and preamps I owned, and they have supported their older products admirably. | |
| Have you ever heard about Wingate? I recall the amplifier as having been favorably reviewed by Stereophile (maybe Dick Olsher?) in the mid-80s, but for some reason I seem to recall some caveat about it that may have cropped up after the review (I could be wrong). If anyone has some... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? And I'm not so sure that he did not use the equalizer, as he does make reference to it quite a bit, and notes that the EQ might be slightly degrading the sound in the article. Where did you deduce that he wasn't using the EQ? | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? If we "all can agree" that the Bose 901s do not sound good without the EQ, what does that say about the reviewer's abilities when he praises them as much as he does? | |
| Your jaw dropping cables My experience matches Jaybo's. Maybe it's because I upgraded very gradually over the years, but I can't say that switching cables has made the type of difference you're describing. Now if I had upgraded directly from a generic patch cord to my cur... | |
| Dont laugh I know that there are some here who believe that the brand of cable does not matter much when you are dealing with balanced cables, as long as they are well-made. Your experience seems to support that view. | |
| Lamm ML 1 best power cable I like my ML 1.1s with Kubala Sosna Emotion power cords, probably because my whole system is cabled with that cable and I like the presentation of that cabling. Some might think it's a little smooth; my take is that the high frequency hash is gone... | |
| It was 44 years ago that... Ozzy--My memory is fading, but I think the record that started the longer versions of songs was probably Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone". When it first was played on AM radio they only would play the first two verses (fitting barely into the us... |