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| Thinking of Kef Blade 2 to replace Revel Salon 2 If you’re at all open to other options, a nice pair of Joseph Audio Pearl 2s just came available here. One of the best I’ve ever heard at a show and winner of more than one best of show awards. The fact that they very rarely show up here seems to ... | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations please to partner with Parasound JC-1's.... There's an Allnic L3000 available here for $3700 that retailed for over $10,000. Audio Beat and Dagogo have good reviews on it and both call it one of the best tube preamps extant. Sounds like a worthy contender to the pre in your AA. FWIW... | |
| speakers that would be a clear upgrade to Gallo CL-3 A used pair of Joseph Audio Pulsars or even Profiles would likely be a meaningful step up from the Gallos. There's also a nice pair of ProAc D20rs here now that incorporate a ribbon tweeter if you're looking that way. But if you're maybe up for ... | |
| Power amp/integrated amp suggestions for SUPER POWER HUNGRY/INEFFICIENT SPEAKERS Congrats. Enjoy! Now start saving for a preamp. Heh heh. | |
| Sonus Faber Alternatives That Offer Similar Sound and Performance, your expertise needed! How about this? I'm guessing your speakers sound at least somewhat similar to the Futuras from the mids on up and that a lot of the difference between these might be in their bass capabilities? If that's the case, I'd add a couple good subs with... | |
| Sonus Faber Venere 3.0 Opinions? Mirage OM5 vs. SF Venere vs. Infinity RSII??? These are all vastly different speakers! What exactly are you looking for? | |
| 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. |