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| Amp/Pre-amp for Vandersteens I recently sold my Vandy 2Ce's and upgraded to the 3A's. I am driving them with a Bryston 4B-ST, and I am VERY pleased with the combination (so is my wife, who has much better hearing than I do). The Bryston is very transparent and neutral, and pr... | |
| VPI JMW Memorial Tonearm The Aries/JMW combo is an outstanding choice in the upper-mid price range. The JMW arms are considered "high mass". A low-to-medium compliance cartridge will prove a better match than a high-compliance model. | |
| Best Full Range Speakers @ Around $2000? If you are willing to buy used speakers, you won't do any better in a full-range speaker than Vandersteen 3A's. There have been several sets of 3A's listed recently on Audiogon for about $1800, and there is currently a pair of 3A's for auction on ... | |
| Need a good inexpensive stereo pre! The Adcom GFP-750 is a Sterephile "Class A" recommended component, and can be purchased used for $750-850. If you want something even cheaper, primarily for use with LP's or other analog sources, the older Adcom GFP-565 is a superb buy as used equ... | |
| What's next after my 300B Rega Turntable Maxgain: In various postings, you and I seem to share very similar opinions. The comment you make about the Grado Signature arm is certainly right! In further response to Grandpoobah's question, there are some other choices that he might want to c... | |
| How do VANDERSTEEN Signature 2ce's rate? Maxgain: Your point about driving the Vandy 2Ce's with a good quality front-end is bang on! In the years I have owned Vandy speakers, and in the years I sold high-end audio gear, most of the people that I knew with the Vandy 2-series speakers gene... | |
| Buyer's remorse - your worst purchase? Oddly, I have never had a "worst purchase" until two months ago. I bought a Monster Power HTS3500 line conditioner after reading Robert Harley's rave comments in TAS about the HTS2000. I assumed that since the HTS3500 offered another filter stage,... | |
| What's up w/silver, is it back in style? Yes, happily we are starting to see some color on faceplates other than basic black. Bryston has been offering silver faceplates for a year or so, and I notice that NAD also has a line with silver faceplates. Sony is also offering silver faceplate... | |
| Best Speaker Cable For Center Channel? The center channel speaker is less critical with regard to cable, since it carries mostly dialogue. You will do fine with one of Kimber Kable's less expensive cables. I am currently using Kimber 4TC ($7/ft) for the center channel in my system and ... | |
| VPI Turn Table You don't indicate which VPI model, so let's start with defining their product line. At the bottom end is the VPI HW-19 Jr, which is inexpensive and a good entry-level table. One of the advantages to the VPI line is that you can upgrade in steps. ... | |
| Best musician in the world? It's interesting that almost all of the recommendations above are for pop artists, most of whom aren't talented enough to serve tea to the truly best musicians. Here's my list for what it's worth, by instrument, with living artists in CAPITALS and... | |
| Worst Music of All-Time Well, this could be a VERY long list, since I think almost all of the pop music of the last 15 years is execrably BAD (particularly the hip-hop, rap, techno-funk, mechanical flatulence). However, for the sake of humor, probably the worst and stupi... | |
| Best Vanishing speakers Two wildly different speakers certainly meet the "best disappearing" category for me: the new Martin-Logan Prodigy, and Richard Sequerra's MET-7 mini-monitor. I've never owned the M-L Prodigy, but I did have a set of MET-7's for a number of years.... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music The more I think about this, the more I recall of music that has really moved me going all the way back to the late 1950's. Many of Duke Ellington's songs and works define "achingly beautiful" music for me. When I am in a classical music mood and ... | |
| Adcom, B&K, or Rotel????????? I owned Adcom amps for many years, and don't agree with most of the comments offered here. However, I recently upgraded my 2 amps with a Bryston 4B-ST and a Bryston 5B-ST. In 2 words: HUGE DIFFERENCE. You can get a good buy on Bryston amps from "B... |