reb1208
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| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers "What speakers measure flat"If you are looking for full range sound with multiple woofers. Snell Acoustics makes one of the flatest measuring speakers ever made- as measured by Stereophile. The XA90ps with powered subs/parametric bass eq. | |
| Wadia 861, Levinson 390S, or EMC1MKII The 861 must be very different from the 860. Cause the 860 sounded like anything but music in my room. Bleached midrange and extremely poor PRAT. | |
| Large Speakers Small Rooms Avoid large speakers with rear or side firing woofers in a small room. In addition, look for a speaker that has adjustments (switches) to contour the sound. Pay special attention to the radiation pattern. You may have to use a parametric eq to get... | |
| CJ Premier 17LS2 vs Premier 16LS2? Wow- the "virus" has spread now to CJ. 6H30 tube in a CJ product- just incredible.What a cold sounding piece of crap that tube is. | |
| ARC LS-5MKIII or ARC LS-25MKII Yes- the way to go: LS5 mk3 or LS25 mk1. | |
| Stands for Snell E-IIIs Snell is still a great company! | |
| Legacy 20/20 and Tubes Wow is right. Ask him to list the speakers he uses. A joke indeed. | |
| Do you own a Benz Lukaschek PP-1 phono pre? This is the brand it comes with for USA use . The voltage adapter should cause you no problems. You probably bought one that came here as "grey goods" - hence the need for the adapter.Are you happy with the way it sounds? For what that unit is-it ... | |
| Which Solid-State Preamp under $7,000.00 New? I have an additional thought to contribute. You also seek out a 3-dimensional sound. Well IMO, you are going to have a tough time finding that in any solid state pre-amp. You would probably be better off looking at some hybrids. | |
| Does it make sense to introduce/buy CD-only player I suggest that you approach digital as if SACD/DVD-A does not even exist. Go buy yourself a top notch redbook machine and enjoy your CD library. | |
| KRELL SACD or TEAC Esoteric DV-50 I sold my DV-50 when I hooked up a panasonic portatble and heard more "air". | |
| Which Solid-State Preamp under $7,000.00 New? Probably the Klyne. | |
| Discovery cables.... I did not like the sound of Discovery plus 4, Essence or the Essential speaker cable. Puts a soft rounded bluntness to transients. Has a warm tonal coloration in the mids. Deep bass is soft. And worst of all was a slight but irritating brightness/... | |
| Bass Question - should LP range be so different? The amount of information that can be cut into a LP record is fixed. Often the low frequecies are rolled off and many records will sound thin. Also common to have a "dark" analog type sound as the engineer decided to lop off the highs. There simpl... | |
| What qualities do you look for in a good amp? What to look for. No particular order.1) Customer service dept readily available.2) Stable reliable company.3) Few models used up for sale.4) Input impedance high enough to allow use of tube pre-amp.5) Power rating stable into 4 ohms.6) Protection... |