soix
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| What is missing here? If I really want to know what a component sounds like, I don’t read the TAS review. They rarely bother to compare the item under review to another comparable product (too much work and accountability in that), and in many cases they don’t even li... | |
| Amp for B&W 805 D3 What sound characteristics do you value most? | |
| Integrated amp for Focal Sopra 2 There’s a Vitus RI-100 here for $5850 ($13,000 new) so well within your budget. Just buy it, take your ball and go home. | |
| now that you're working from home... Of the ones you listed I’d go for the Dyns that tend to have a very refined and non-aggressive sound.That said, given your tastes I’d find a way to shoehorn in a Schiit Aegir Class A amp (only about the size of a brick) and a pair of Silverline Mi... | |
| Integrated amp for Focal Sopra 2 What’s your budget? New or used? | |
| Integrated amp for Focal Sopra 2 What aspects of sound reproduction do you value most? What amp are you using now, and what specifically would you like to improve upon? The usefulness of any suggestions you get here will be directly proportional to the amount and quality of info... | |
| How to select and pair a preamp and power amp? What do you value most in 2-channel performance, what integrated are you using now, and what would you most like to improve upon? Can’t really make a good recommendation without this basic info. You need an amp that can adequately drive your spe... | |
| Anticipating next upgrade after B&W 803 D3? My system has the b&w’s, McIntosh 5 channel amp biwired and a bluesound node 2i and a marantz 5014 avr used as a preamp. i am now seriously exploring the Chord Qutest dac and maybe the m scalerSpeakers? Dude! Your first priority should be a ve... | |
| Anticipating next upgrade after B&W 803 D3? To my ears, Joseph Audio speakers do everything better than a comparable B&W model while sounding more musical and just bringing more life and believability to sound. That’s what I heard comparing the original Pulsars to the 804 D3 last year a... | |
| Adding a small subwoofer for music in 2020 +1 SVS SB1000. They offer a long trial period and have great customer service. Best of luck. | |
| Projector comparisons You married well. | |
| Need recommendations for better two-channel audio out of my Marantz SR-6005 and my B&W 683 Agree with @deep_333 that the Yammy Aventage AVRs, especially the upper models (1080 on up) that have a power transformer are very good. I worked for Magnolia for a spell and got to compare Denon, Marantz, and Arcam driving B&W 804d3s and thou... | |
| Bel Canto PrePro for music? um..well....the point is you can get so much better product with a former high dollar pro than you can get with a stereo PRE.the nicest stereo pre I have seen lately was the emotiva XSP-1 gen 2. most of the rest of the stuff out lately are not th... | |
| vienna acoustics bach grand 4hom 90 db with nobsound el 34 8 watts tube amp? As long as you keep the volume fairly low probably not, but that’s just not a good pairing as the amp will have to operate way outside its optimal range and the speakers won’t get nearly enough power to access their potential. | |
| Speakers Only if there’s something you’d like to change or improve over what you have now. Is there? |