shakeydeal
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| Can't get Acoustic Zen Adagios to sound smooth "Maybe you caught the man with a question that was in the owners manual hey everybody has a bad day, try and get over it."No, that's pretty much how he is. Not saying that there is anything wrong with it, but don't try to sugarcoat it. Richard isn... | |
| Can't get Acoustic Zen Adagios to sound smooth First of all, I can't believe you lived with this for four years. They would have been gone from my house long before that.Secondly, I agree with John. How do you know that the media is not at fault, and not the system?BTW, not sure I even know wh... | |
| Advice on phono pre "It's no different than if he were to place an ad in Stereophile."Ah, excuse me. He does have to actually pay for the ad in $phile......Shakey | |
| Advice on phono pre " it is my job to make sure that folks like the OP is aware of my product offerings. "That is what the buy/sell section of this site is for. Not so much the forums. Is it breatking the rules? Maybe not. Is it in poor taste? Probably.......Shakey | |
| Klipsch Cornwall III or Tyler Acoustics PD-15 Four years later. Do you think he is still shopping these two speakers?Shakey | |
| Wells Audio Akasha Amplifier- Any owners here? "and no drawbacks of tubes."Other than having to replace them every couple of years or so, I am hard pressed to think of any "drawbacks".Shakey | |
| Is my preamp useless? This seems like a lot of banter for not much progress.Like George has stated, it would be a simple process to run the DAC directly into the amp just to test the outcome. If the OP doesn't like what he hears, then a passive linestage probably isn't... | |
| Is my preamp useless? "If he expressed some disappointment with it, that would be another matter. But we really won't know for sure until he tries a passive. You may be right."That's just the thing. I think we all can agree that in this hobby ignorance is bliss. You do... | |
| Advice on phono pre You will get as many different opinions as you do answers. So I will throw my hat in the ring with the K&K Audio Maxxed Out phono stage. I am a big fan of Kevin Carter's work and this phono preamp is a real stand out. There was a recent review... | |
| Is my preamp useless? "The reason I do is because you usually have to buy a really good active preamp to get where it actually sounds as good, if not better, than a passive. Your preamp, in my opinion at least, is beyond that mark by a comfortable margin."I don't agree... | |
| Rockport Avior or Magico S5 "The poster was asking opinions about the Rockport Avior vs. the Magico S5. Somehow this thread got diverted to discussions on the merits of various Vandersteen models"Yes, that tends to happen when ctsooner comes on the scene. We are used to it b... | |
| Are my speakers now the "weak link"? I had a VTL ST-150 and a transformer volume control preamp. Source was a Nott Spacedeck/Benz Micro L2 at the time, and a Tube Research Labs modified sony cd spinner.No experience with the Nu Vista amp. My thoughts on the Sophia were that they imag... | |
| Are my speakers now the "weak link"? I would say the "two" weak links are the MF integrated AND the Sophias. I briefly owned Sophias and just couldn't like them, no matter how hard I tried.Shakey | |
| Rockport Avior or Magico S5 If you can't trust that a dealer can properly set up a speaker, then who?Richard should pull all his inventory from a dealer who can't get it right.Shakey | |
| Tonearm: Well Tempered Lab LTD MK2 "not sure how it would compare to others in the same price range"My former table was a Spacedeck. The Amadeus made it sound broken..... |