saunderse
Responses from saunderse
| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? Yes, the Lightspeed works without anything in the signal path! | |
| Best Integrated, period. Any Chinese 845 based output can be tweaked to sound better than any solid state integrated. | |
| Nagra VPA 845 vacuum tube suggestions The best of the best is the United Electronics's, but they arevery rare and very pricey. I would call them invaluable because you can't just buy them with money.I like the Shuguang 845 C witch features metal plates.For the first stages I like a pa... | |
| CD Player with the best Built-in Volume Control... I would say, that it is silly to select a CD player, justbecause of it's volume control. I have added high qualityvolume controls, to several different CD players, and poweramps. I highly recommend the "ladder" style. | |
| I've $4k to spend on used speakers for big room Green Mountain Audio Continuum 3's. Time and phase coherent,all done with 1st order cross-overs.Nothing else comes close! | |
| Sub vs. three way All of your current examples, are not quite accurate.I have been able, to have, a sub, run by a separate amp, thathas been tweaked, to emulate a first order crossover,while maintaining, time and phase, coherency, of the completespeaker system! | |
| CD upgrade opinions? This is a very simple decision. Go for a Reference AudioMods E-Sound Signature edition. For $2,995 you get enoughmods for the E-Sound player, to beat anything stock under $10,000. I have the $5,995 version, which is the best sounding CD player, th... | |
| Benchmark DAC1USB vs PRE1 vs Transporter Forget the transport with the volume control. I guaranteeyou, that the pot in the transport, is in the signal pathand is probably of very poor quality. It will end up being the weakest link, in your signal path! |