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| Speaker Audition With your price range, you can readily afford the Dutch & Dutch 8c loudspeaker system at $12k. Yeah. I know. You've got twice that much burning in your pocket, just wanting to be spent. You owe it to yourself to go find someone who can de... | |
| Speakers good for close to wall placement I will echo the recommendation to seriously consider the Larsen loudspeakers. They are the only loudspeaker I've ever heard that are engineered to be put up, flat against a wall. Doing so makes them much more furniture and decoration friendly, i... | |
| Where are the cheap home streamers? As others here have said, laptop with a USB connection to a DAC is the way to go. I've been doing this for 10 years now. You can make it cheaper by snagging a used laptop off of Craigslist for about $150, wiping Windows and instead loading Ubun... | |
| Preamp recommendation There a couple of Don Sachs tube preamps on the used market at just under $2000. They retail new for about $2500. They’re based on the Aikido circuit boards from VTA. You can build the same preamp, as a kit, but in a very plain case, for as little... | |
| Used Speaker in the 15k range If you like the JA Perspective 2, you should know that you SEAS has a kit (Thor) you can build, for about $2500, which is roughly the equal of the JA Perspective 2, which uses stock SEAS drivers. In fact, the THOR uses bass drivers which a bit la... | |
| Amplifier upgrade advice under $2000 Save yourself some money and get one of these amps.Sumo AndromedaBryston 4BOr if you're brave (but probably you aren't), you could build a pair of VTA M125 monoblock tube amps (120 watts each). | |
| Used Speaker in the 15k range Get this set.Avalon Eidolon Diamond | |
| Budget Tube Preamp ($2000) You will see a number of people singing the praises of the Don Sachs preamp. They are hand made, custom built, dressed up versions of the VTA SP14 kit. The Don Sachs preamp will run you about $2500. The base SP14 kit will run you $1090. Fully... | |
| High end stereo preamps? Worth it? You will see a number of people singing the praises of the Don Sachs preamp. They are hand made, custom built, dressed up versions of the VTA SP14 kit. The Don Sachs preamp will run you about $2500. The base SP14 kit will run you $1090. Fully... | |
| which speaker to buy If your son wants his music that loud, then you're going in the totally wrong direction. Home audio hi-fi speakers can play only so loud. What your son needs is pro sound gear, which is engineered to play at much higher sound levels. If you're... | |
| Desire to try tubes I can't believe nobody has yet pointed you at the VTA website.Their SP14 preamp is the equal of any $5k preamp you'll find on Audiogon. You can build it as a kit for $1090, or you can get it fully assembled and tested for $1490. 90% of their buy... | |
| why a 75 dollar blue ray smokes all 2k CD players and any turntable??? I have more than a dozen recordings, originally done before digital mastering, on both vinyl and digital. While there are real differences between them, I find neither to be superior. There are things I like about each that are better than the o... | |
| Sam here and l just made a new discovry. As we say in the world of Linux, you can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish. | |
| Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker @bdp24 I’ve been running a set of custom built Linkwitz Orions for about 14 years now. They started out as version 3.1 and then did the update to version 3.3. I’m very much in love with them. Every so often I get the urge to do something different... | |
| Tubes? If what you want is a tube amp with some muscle, a solid low end, that are well within your price range, take a look at the Bob Latino M125 monoblock amps from VTA. Available in kit form at $2233/pair or fully assembled & tested at $2955/pair.... |