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| new system for beginner I don't recall how efficient the Vandersteens are, Dekay, but when I owned a pair years ago, I ran them with my vintage Marantz 9's set in their 35 watt triode mode and lived quite happily with that combination for a number of years. The 2C's have... | |
| Improving imaging Excellent point, Dougholdco. A cheap, quick check would be to at least pull-out and push-back-on your interconnects at all connecting points, Mmccoy. That will clean the connections enough to get a sense of whether this is a contributing factor in... | |
| new system for beginner Dekay, I will echo your Vandersteen 2C recommendation. Anyone looking to start a system should at least listen to these speakers. They are an incredibly good value for a full range speaker. They are a little warmer than neutral and not the most im... | |
| Seperate Power Supply and Preamps Albert provides a good list. Isolation and size limitations seem most common. If you look at the power supplies in some of the components that use a separate chassis, you'll see that they are large enough all by themselves to equal the size of man... | |
| Improving imaging Mmccoy, if I'm reading you correctly, it sounds as though you believe your system was re-creating the soundstage at one time, but that it's ability to do so has degraded. In my experience, a change like this is the result of changes in room acoust... | |
| Absolute Best power amp, tube ss I'll echo Bryceeboy's Atma-Sphere MA-1 or MA-2, MkII, recommendation. I live with a pair of MA-2 MkII's and I have never heard an amplifier with better reproduction of harmonic overtones, resolution of inner detail, rock-solid soundstaging and ove... | |
| Preamp for MA1 amp Jkubina - I wish I could, but I don't know. I wrote to Ralph Karsten when I saw an MP-1 for sale being described as "fully optioned" with a retail price of $10,000 since this didn't match what I had seen previously about the MP-1. Ralph's reply wa... | |
| Preamp for MA1 amp Mike, you might want to look at the thread on Audio Asylum (see URL below) where Philip O'Hanlon tells of lending his Io to a friend who has an Atma-Sphere MP-1 preamplifier (next model up from the MP-3) and MA-1 amplifier. The friend so much pref... | |
| Sound Quality: Atma-Sphere MA-2 vs. MA-1 Just closing the italics HTML tag I left open. Sorry. | |
| Sound Quality: Atma-Sphere MA-2 vs. MA-1 Thanks Jim and Jtinn. I am hopeful someone will be able to contribute who has heard both amps, if not both in the same system, then at least with enough controlled variables to have come to some conclusions. My general thinking has always been tha... | |
| Your favorite blues album? Here's perhaps a quirky favorite: Robert Lucas, "Using Man Blues" on Audioquest -- engineered by Kavi Alexander. The LP is superb, but it will quickly reveal a system that is not "all together". On a system that gets the music right, this recordin... | |
| Preamp for MA1 amp The higher price would be for a fully optioned MP-1. I don't know all the details, but when I asked Ralph, he confirmed that the price for a fully optioned MP-1 would be nearly $12,000. | |
| Preamp for MA1 amp Wellfed, I did not mean to temper your enthusiasm and I apologize if I sounded that way. I know that my enthusiasm for the Atma-Sphere amplifiers knows no bounds! I wish more of us could hear the Atma-Sphere preamplifiers to discover what Ralph Ka... | |
| Preamp for MA1 amp Hmmm..., I should have mentioned that I use an Atma-Sphere MA-2, Mk2.2, and I have made the commitment to purchase the Io MkII, but have not yet received it. | |
| Preamp for MA1 amp Depending on your interest in optimizing playback for vinyl, an interesting option is the new Aesthetix Io, MkII, phonostage. When you order the version with volume controls, the Io now includes a front panel switch for a second input. This is a h... |