sedond
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| Tube Pre-amp beneficial? brant nordlund of melos audio restorations has a melos maestro (retail $2300) for sale for $1k on audioreview. great tube sound, remote control for volume/balance, but yule need a fono-stage. there are also sha-gold references (precursors to the m... | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? waldhorner, i agree w/ewe. my only point is that there isn't necessarily a *correct* sound. short of extremely elaborate multi-channel ambient-surround-sound processing, ya won't get a *correct* sound in the home. so, when setting up yer home syst... | |
| Linn system: speaker matching are your monitors new? perhaps they need some breaking in? the sound ewe describe doesn't sound like linn that i've heard. my only criticism of linn is relative lack of soundstage depth - i always thought the timbre & detail thru-out the audib... | |
| Natural sound (REL Subwoofers) hi souporhero, i only auditioned the bottom-line rel, & only for a short period. (and only one, not a stereo-pair). i found its electronics to be a limitation, or perhaps it's yust that ya can't defy the laws of fisiks w/a driver that small, &... | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? waldhorner, re: your comments about differing concert-hall sounds - my point exactly! yust like w/stereo systems. live, unamplified music can sound way different in different venues. which one is right? who knows - whichever one ya like the best, ... | |
| Add a DAC or buy a new CD player? hi megasam, i don't disagree w/your opinion, but i guess i tink that w/a $500 cd-player, ya got about 95% of what cd has to offer - that last 5% is *way* too expensive, until ya get closer to 95% w/a preamp - ymmv. regards, doug | |
| input impedance even if the sonic amps' input impedence is 100k-ohms, yule be all right if the x-overs' output impedence is 10k-ohms or less. conwentional wisdom sez 1:10 ratio is tha max ya wanna go... doug | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? hi waldhorner, lotsa folks argue about which *concert-hall* is most accurate, where does it stop? ;~) doug | |
| all linn, or mix & match?? i tink linn stuff is nice, but i wouldn't tie-down a nice amp-n-pre, or an integrated, w/a built-in cd-player when ya *know*, in a couple years, a few hundred bucks worth of digital-playback equipment will *kill* any ~$1k cd player being made toda... | |
| Add a DAC or buy a new CD player? hey, soobieguru, there's a melos maestro reference preamp f/s by melos audio restorations (the *new* melos company) on audioreview for $1k - i bet it'll tame the digital-nasties of yer rotel better than yer pass aleph p does, and no resolution/det... | |
| 1 million dollar speaker made by Kharma hi waldhorner, if ya got one-o-dem new toyota hybrids, it definitely cost toyota more than ya paid for it! ;~) no argument w/the wife/kids assessment... :>) regards, doug | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? hey joe, where ya going w/that toob preamp in yer hand? ;~) i can't afford a solid-state preamp that sounds as good as a lower-cost toob-unit! i tink ya gotta spend at least 6k for a solid-state unit to avoid the "drawbacks" that less-expensive tu... | |
| 1 million dollar speaker made by Kharma hey waldohomer - mebbe those kharma's *are* 10 million dollar speakers, & they *did* do it for 1 million! ;~) doug. btw, i *also* enjoy music on cheap radios... :>) | |
| 1 million dollar speaker made by Kharma ewe nailed it, grow-up... doug | |
| Is Oracle a copycat of Win Lab TT ? how old is the win 'table? the 1st oracle 'table came out ~1980... as far as making it better, the oracle has gone thru 5 iterations, so far... doug |