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| Best souding Fleetwood Mac CD's All I can tell you is I just bought the remastered TUSK -and it is incredible! It bears no resemblence to the flat dull original CD - this has life, presence, soundstage, shimmering cymbals, everything you'd ever want, especially nice for an older... | |
| Tube preamp $1500-2000 for a thin sounding amp? Check out the Eastern Electric Minimax preamp - nice presence, tubey but not too tubey, gobs of detail but no stidency - an excellent choice for your needs!Enjoy!james | |
| Japanese Mini-LP Obi CD's -- Audiophile Quality? I agree, although there are many titles which are only available as remasters from Japan. For instance, I'm a big YES fan (I know, beat me hurt me). The Anderson, Bruford Wakeman Howe CD available in the USA is a terrible piece of flat garbage, bu... | |
| Best low cost speaker cables for my system? With all due respect to Chatty1, the Speltz Anti-Cables were beaten badly in my system by the Xindak FS-1 cables. They're not easy to find, I believe www.nysound.com is one of the few places you can buy them, but they're worth it, IMHO. They sound... | |
| Awesome new "Kind Of Blue" Redbook CD reissue My son just called me to say the same raving things about this new release - I'm leaving right now to go pick my copy up!Gracias amigo!James | |
| Want to upgrade my speakers ... input please ... Well, Ron, these are all very different sounding speakers - what exactly are you looking for? What music do you listen to? How loud? Analog, or digital?A stab in the dark, not knowing the answers to the above ?s - I absolutely love the Vandy speak... | |
| Bel Canto, Nuforce, Acoustic Reality, Channel Is. I directly compared the Bel Canto, CI 200 and the Ref 9s on my Audio Physic Virgos. After serious auditioning, I bought the Ref 9s for their overall musicality, smooth mids and incredible transparency.However, I have a tube pre in the system - not... | |
| Eastern Electric Mini Max vs AE-3 DJH preamps I loved my time with the EE MiniMax - very detailed, nice presence but not syrupy, lots of fun to tube roll. I've now moved on and up to the Hovland 1000 pre, but really liked the Minimax - mated to the Nuforce Reference 9s, a great and very music... | |
| Phase Linear We used to call them "Flames Linear" in the biz cause they blew up so often. Unstable would be a kind term for what they became when pushed. Brute force, not terribly musical. | |
| Amp for Virgo III's Hi!I have kind of a similar system to yours, an AA M3A with Shanling T100 CD Player and VPI/Blackbird, except I have the original model Virgos, which I love. After extensive auditioning of over 15 amplifiers, tube and SS, I purchased the Nuforce R... | |
| YBA 2 Alpha preamp and general preamp questions Hi!I went through many of the same trials and tribs in my search for great sound, and I agree heartily with Bojack above. The AA M3A is a fantastic preamp, it's what I ended up with after lots of auditions for the same reasons you want it - to mat... | |
| Are ICEpower amps really that good? I bought the Nuforce 9s after extensive auditioning of several mega buck tube and SS amps in my system. While the 9s and Bel Cantos do not have the midrange tube bloom of good SE amps, it's the only thing they DON'T have. For me, clear answer is Y... | |
| New tube preamp Fiddler, I have heard a Chenin (sp?) model, but not in my system - it was indeed wonderful, very musical, but I didn't hear the presentation of detail I get with the 3A. Truthfully, after Quicksilver, AES, Bottlehead, ARC, and Musical Fidelity pre... | |
| amp match Hate to throw yet another 'contendah' into the ring, but before you decide, try to listen to Nuforce Reference 9 monoblocs. I went through an extensive power amp search for over 6 months, including the Plinius and McCormack models, and ended up wi... | |
| How much of the front end depends on the preamp I would absolutely agree with Elizabeth - your Yamaha, while a competent piece - cannot hold a candle to seperates, especially a seperate dedicated phono preamp. And the preamp, as I have also found out, is indeed the cornerstone of the system. Yo... |