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| Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage vs Extrema I thought Audio Technology used to be called Skanning, just a name change?Being a former owner of Extrema and Guarneri, I will say you can't go wrong with either. Personally I will get Guarneri, it's very coherent and refined but does lack bass. I... | |
| Effect of Humidity on Speakers Heat will keep the moisture away. Run your stereo often and enjoy the music, it's good for the electronics too. | |
| Who Do You Credit For Getting You Into This Hobby? My dad, who bought me a Luxman integrated when I was in college. It's payback time, I bought him a pair of Sonus Faber Cremona last year even though his true love is Tannoy Westminster but he doesn't have the space for those monster speakers. | |
| How many pair of speakers do you own? 5 pairs at one point, only 3 pairs now if you count the pair I gave to my parents.Sonus Faber AmatiSonus Faber CremonaUsher X-718If I can, I will own the whole entire Homage line of Sonus Faber just because. But life is more fun with more varietie... | |
| Safe to use 110V/60Hz in other countries? Problem is I am leaning toward tube integrated which is never universal voltage like class-D amp. I did consider Bel Canto for a brief moment, even Bel Canto with Class-D requires some jumper to be moved to use in 220V countries.I did buy a big st... | |
| Safe to use 110V/60Hz in other countries? Dewald,thanks for the reply. I realized most electronics convert AC to DC and should not be sensitive to incoming freq, but after hearing so many premature failure cases I was concerned. I brought my Sony SACD player to Singapore and it stated 60H... | |
| Step Down Transformer If your problem is the other way around (taking a table that works here to use in England), you can buy a VPI SDS which will take any voltage and output 110V 60Hz.I am moving to Singapore for a 2 year assignment, talked to VPI and they advised me ... | |
| New Beryllium drivers by Usher at CES2005 why do people keep connect Usher with China? Usher is a Taiwan company and all of their Compass series are made in Taiwan, not China. | |
| MBL 101e's vs. Soundlab U-1's I recently listened to the smaller MBL (161?) with all MBL gears.Despite superb transparency, solid imaging, and midrange body, I thought the bass was too over damped and did not have the proper decay of live music. Upon further listening, I felt ... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Line - 1 Volume Control The volumne problem is very common on all SF Line series which use an optical encoder. Sonic Frontiers does not make that encoder, so blame it on the manufacture that makes it.It's relatively easy to replace, I did mine in less than 2 hours and th... | |
| Pricing of the SF Cremona.... They were never $6k. Started at $7500, went up to $8k, then $9k now. | |
| SF Line 2 to upgrade or not I will vote for keeping it stock and save the money for upgrading other pieces in the chain like speakers or analog? | |
| Is Supratek Chenin a good match for BAT-75SE? Owner of 75SE, I use SF Line 3 SE with great success. ARC Ref 2 MK II might give you a little more bass and dynamic, but SF Line 3 SE will rival everything else. Superb detail, soundstage width and depth, inner harmonic and imaging capability are ... | |
| Best Integrated Amp for Confidence 5 speakers 2nd the TriVista. I have not owned the TriVista, but have owned the NuVista and it was a wonderful amp for power hungry speakers like Dyn C5.But given NuVista or TriVista are two boxes, why not go with separate? You can get an excellent tube pre w... | |
| Is 40w int. tube amp enough to feed MerlinVSM I agree with Martykl, VSM SE is a thin sounding speaker on its own and hence the introduction of BAM. Even if you have them sitting against the back wall, lower mid is still thin unless you hook up some older Conrad Johnson amps to them.My suggest... |