sedond
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| Melos updates worth it? if ewe have the fotentiometer, & it's workin' fine, i'd keep it as-is, & wait 'til melos finishes their gnu fotentiometer they're working on. then send it for everything at once. the capacitor updates are prolly worth it, but the alps wolu... | |
| Is My Room Large Enough? tom, i've put ~250k miles on 4 alfas in the past 9 years - as reliable as any yapanese & svedish (non-saab) cars i've prewiously owned - & much more reliable than my friends' german cars. never have owned a spider, tho - only sedans-n-coup... | |
| How good is the Kenwood KT 917 tuner? phunny, i thought he was asking about kenwood, not pioneer... and, avguygeorge, i agree, that many nice tunas came outta yapan. | |
| Subwoofers pro or home? 18" drivers may be slower than the woofers of your monitors, making it harder to smoothly integrate, but, w/a good x-over & a low-enuff x-over point, it can be done. before taking the plunge, czech out vmps' www re: their larger sub - i have a... | |
| Cary tubes? i found the cary pre extremely neutral, tight & fast - not at *all* tubey. but, this was in direct comparison w/the rogue 99, which was *very* coloured, imho... amplification was a pair of electrocompaniet amps im biamped mode, driving meret r... | |
| Cary tubes? i had a cary slp98 pre for a while, & it was wery nice - better than the magnum version of the rogue 99. customer service is also excellent. but, my current melos music director is in another league altogether than the cary.re: the cary amp, i... | |
| CDP suggestions for bright system? redkiwi,i can't disagree w/what yure saying, but if widener's only source is cd, then i tink he's kinda stuck, cuz his amplification & speakers are ackshully quite good, at their price-points in terms of sound-quality & neutrality, imho...... | |
| CDP suggestions for bright system? hi redkiwi, i generally agree w/ewe in trying to seek neutrality - not trying to balance a bright component w/a dull one, etc. however, in the case of digital hardware, the only way to awoid this, is to stop using cd's, imho... ;~) this, obviously... | |
| Best complete turntable set-up for 500 i agree w/everything said here so far, but i must weigh-in especially on the side of buying used - ewe will get an order of magnitude better going used at this price-range, imho... | |
| Acoustic Energy AE 1 s i am partial to electrocompaniet for solid-state amps - yust happen to have an aw100 f/s too... ;~) 100wpc into 8 ohms, 190 into 4 ohms, class-a, >80 amps current. selling cuz it ain't bridgeable, & i am going to run a pair of electro amps ... | |
| CDP suggestions for bright system? i'd recommend one-o-dem cheap tube buffer stages like the ase z-man, or a similar musical-fidelity unit - dunno its model #. i have an ase z-man that served me well until a melos tube preamp made it unnecessary. still kepin' it for a second system... | |
| Best Balanced and singal ended pre-amp? melos ma-333/music director had units w/both balanced & single-ended - at least mine does. remote control for wolume-n-balance, too... excellent sound, awailable used (w/o fono) for $2k or less... fono was awailable in a 3rd chassis...btw, i'd... | |
| Preamp with Remote ? streetman, my melos has a remote - dunno if it can be updated. call melos audio restorations in las vegas, nv. tell brant i sent ya | |
| Monitors for Bryston 4B ST there's currently a pair of meret re's f/s on a-gon, the guy wants $900. (retail w/o stands was $3300). they're excellent, at least in *my* system, they are! ;~) they're rhombus-shaped to break up standing waves, have lead-layered construction so ... | |
| Preamp with Remote ? the cary slp98 bested the rogue 99 *magnum* version in my system, in all areas, imo. there's one on a-gon rite now, the guy's asking $1600. cary can add remote for $500. dunno how it wood stack up to the 1st-sound, tho - i've heard a lot of good t... |