rcprince
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| Krell KPE vs. Aesthetx IO Sig. Rushton's post says it all. Your KPE is an excellent piece of equipment, a bargain at its original price let alone used, but I think you'll find that the IO is a significant upgrade, it is one of those special components that when you hear it you ... | |
| Anyone know about sforzando design JL One I was told of your thread at our NJAS meeting today. I own a JL-1 speaker system that has been a bit of a test bed for the designer (he's a member of the NJ Audio Society) so it's been tweaked a bit, and another member of NJAS also has a stock ver... | |
| opine please,and thanks As I vaguely recall it, the SDA series used some sort of out of phase or similar signals from each speaker designed to cancel out some extraneous signal from the other speaker and thereby create a more holographic soundfield. I just didn't like it... | |
| Mono blocks on different phases of the sub panel? Jea48's advice is similar to that of the electrician who installed my dedicated box and lines. He said that in installations when there was not enough balance between the loads on the phases it could affect television pictures, among other things.... | |
| Recommendation on preamp for my Krell KSA100s What are you using now, and what about it don't you like (and/or what about the Krell do you like)? Also, what sort of music do you listen to, and what's the rest of your system consist of? Fill us in and you are likely to get some suggestions. | |
| opine please,and thanks Well, I have heard the SDA SRS a long time ago. I always felt that it sounded very muddy and slow--I did not like it. There are others who think it is a great speaker. It is definitely a different animal than the Polks you own, and I would caurion... | |
| CDPs for full orchestra I believe that I have that from both my Forsell transport/Audio Logic DAC and EMM Labs CDSD/DCC2SE combinations (I too listen to large scale orchestral works a lot). However, I have found that speakers and the recordings themselves seem to have mo... | |
| Recommend me more like John Adams.. In addition to the Messeian mentioned above, try the Adams and Glass violin concertos. Robert McDuffie does them both extremely well on a Telarc disc. The Adams uses a synthesizer in the orchestra; the Glass piece is very hypnotic. McDuffie told m... | |
| Opinions of the EMM DCC2 SE I've been using my DCC2 SE for the past month while my Jadis JP 200 is in for repairs and refurbishing. It is a very, very good line stage, transparent and detailed, with excellent dynamics and soundstaging. It is not, however, a tubed preamp, and... | |
| Parasound P/LD-2000, strengths and weaknesses? I'll make one observation, in case no one else answers this thread. I have not heard either of the preamps in question. However, the PLD 2000 is a John Curl design, as is the JC-2. It therefore will most likely have most of the benefits of his des... | |
| sweet, euphonic, reasonably powerful tube amp? I'd suggest older Jadis JA80s using KT-88s, the Quicksilvers mentioned above or perhaps some of the older VAC amps. | |
| Lamm ML2.1 Tubes I have preferred my Telefunken ECC803 tubes in my ML1.1s, but I think one of their main advantages is their longevity, the sonic difference being noticeable but not a huge improvement over the already good sounding tubes I had in there. I remember... | |
| Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44? I second Newbee's enthusiasm for Symphony No. 1, very underrated, as different from the others as he says, and the last movement is one of those audiophile spectaculars. Another of those works I would not have bought had I not heard it live in con... | |
| Best Audio Related Story (or joke). David12, as a trustee of our state orchestra I've been trying to come up with ideas to increase interest in our orchestra and classical music concerts in general. I think your story is just the sort of thing we should do!! Great story! | |
| Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44? With Rachmaninoff, the Previn and Ashkenazy interpretations Rushton and Newbee refer to are generally felt to be the top recommendations, both of them seem to have the right feeling for the music. I have the Previn EMI recordings both on CD and vi... |