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| Sonus Faber Alternatives That Offer Similar Sound and Performance, your expertise needed! Of the more "musical" speakers from other makes available now that might sub for the newer SF speakers near your price (roughly in price order):- Joseph Audio Perspective (at Audio Asylum Trader)- Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mkii (USAudiomart)- Nola Me... | |
| Sonus Faber Venere 3.0 Opinions? IMO the Venere speakers were overhyped in the reviews. I had the 2.5s on extended demo, and while they were decent there were significant flaws and build quality was subpar for the price. In short, style over substance.Sound wise there is a pron... | |
| Organic Power Cord with Micro-Detail Triode Wire Labs PCs get lots of positive comments and offer a good trial period I believe, so could be worth a shot. Also considering making my own Black Mambas so I'd be interested in what OP thinks of them. Not to hijack this thread, but I'm i... | |
| What does oppo stand for? Our Production Permanently OfflineGuess they couldn't figure a profitable way forward as physical media and the hardware associated with it continues to decline. The fact that no one made a viable offer to buy them would seem to confirm their dec... | |
| Tube Preamps..... +1 @whitestix on the Sachs pre. He also offers a short in-home trial, which is a real plus, and the fact that this would be new rather than used is also kinda nice. At your price you could do lots of Don's upgrades to create a really nice pre. O... | |
| Need tube preamp recommendations please For about $2k I'd call Don Sachs, tell him what you're looking for, and have him build you one of his SP14s. There's an Audio Research LS17 available here now that you could upgrade later to an SE that would probably be great too, but personally ... | |
| Help with integrated amp choice You'll get even better suggestions here if you share what aspects of sound reproduction you're looking to improve upon and/or that are most important to you. Knowing what kind of music you listen to really isn't enough to go on here. | |
| Power amp/integrated amp suggestions for SUPER POWER HUNGRY/INEFFICIENT SPEAKERS That’s a great price for that amp. It also has the virtues of being bulletproof, the designer still supports it and answers questions on the phone, and you can upgrade it later if you want even more. I’ve had my 0.5 Rev A for 20 years. You won’t b... | |
| Power amp/integrated amp suggestions for SUPER POWER HUNGRY/INEFFICIENT SPEAKERS There's a nice McCormack DNA 0.5 Deluxe available here now for 750 bucks. Great amp conservatively rated at 100 wpc into 8 Ohms and doubles into 4 Ohms so should be fine for your speakers. Best of luck. | |
| Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum II and What Bookshelf Speakers There's a pair of Bryston Mini As available here now that seem to tick all your boxes, work really well for your preferred type of music, and are listed at $899 for the pair. Read the Soundstage review for more info. Best of luck. | |
| In need of some Amplifier advice. Is therereally any point in it with my current setup? A HT bypass is nice but not necessary, so if the pre or integrated you really like doesn't have one it's not a big deal -- don't let that limit your choices. Any spare line-level input will work fine. | |
| In need of some Amplifier advice. Is therereally any point in it with my current setup? Hmmm. @moskaudio, you do realize the setup I described above allows you to keep the AVR and pure stereo components (amp and preamp) completely separate within the same system without having to swap any interconnects or cables, right? That's the ... | |
| Preamp dillema for McCormack Ultra Platinum Well, there's a Hegel P20 and a Pass X2.5 available here now in your price range that I'd think would both be a nice improvement in refinement over your Ref50 (and at least get rid of the unnecessary ADA processing -- EEK!). For a little more and... | |
| Am I dreaming? I realize you're looking to downsize here, but by needing a good headphone and MC amp you're obviously really limiting your choices. And what are the chances the few contenders that check all your boxes happen to match your sonic tastes or will s... | |
| In need of some Amplifier advice. Is therereally any point in it with my current setup? I guess that would be correct if you're only running front L/R speakers and don't need to balance with center, surrounds, etc. |