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| Is $3000 pushing the limits for a geat monitor?? Feel like a broken record, but what aspects of sound reproduction are most important to you? | |
| Speaker suggestions - Pass XA30.5 $3500 There's a pair of Ref 3A Grand Veenas for sale near your price range, and also some Joseph Audio RM25XLs for sale a bit under your price target. Both are great imaging speakers and are both relatively easy to drive. Best of luck. | |
| need help with speakers $1200 hopefully less I listen to Barber and Krall too, and with that music I'd especially want good imaging and soundstaging along with excellent midrange reproduction among other things. The Silverline Preludes would be a very nice option, and there's a used pair of ... | |
| need help with speakers $1200 hopefully less Need to know more about what you're looking for sonically before making any meaningful recommendations. | |
| Integrated amp/DAC combinations for around $3K? Depends largely on what aspects of sound are most important to you, but the Hegel H300 gets great reviews and includes a built-in DAC. Or maybe a Rogue Sphinx with an outboard DAC from Bryston, NAD, Wyred 4 Sound, etc. Best of luck. | |
| Golden Ear Triton7 spk: High-end or just mid -fi?? What are your top priorities in terms of sound reproduction? You stated what you don't want to give up, but that's not really the whole picture and would be very helpful to know more about your preferences. One thing to consider is you have a near... | |
| Soliloquy replacement parts I think Dave Berman, former President of Soliloquy, posted here a while back that he has some parts so you might try getting in touch with him. | |
| Can't decide on Integrated Amp - Please Help Given what you said you're looking for I'd think an integrated from Hegel, Ayre, Pass Labs, or Plinius among others would be a large step forward in all those areas you listed. Of those I only see a Hegel H200 currently available in your price ran... | |
| RMAF - Loudspeakers that you don't want to miss I recall a while back that people were waiting quite a while for their Vapor speakers? Could be confusing them with someone else (Evolution Acoustics maybe?) and not sure if that's still the case, but if so it may just be the speakers were initial... | |
| Can't decide on Integrated Amp - Please Help Some very good suggestions above, but recommendations would be much more targeted and meaningful if you told us what aspects of sound reproduction are most important to you and/or what you would like to improve upon. | |
| Pre + Amplifier Recommendation If changing speakers is on your radar now or in the near future -- and it appears it is -- just do that first. You know why. Best of luck. | |
| Power Cord Wall to Conditioner Triode Wire Labs PCs also get nice reviews and have a good trial period. Best of luck. | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers Assuming you'll be buying a tube amp suitable to drive whatever speaker you ultimately choose, given your stated preferences I'd consider the Joseph Audio Pearl 3 or one of the larger Verity Audio models. Also like the Crescendo recommendation. If... | |
| Paradigm speakers Probably because they haven't introduced anything really new lately, at least as far as audiophiles would be concerned. Looks like they're introducing a new Prestige series geared toward home theater, so may be some press soon for those but not li... | |
| Got big amp-help with 20A line and receptacle With some help from fellow 'goners I had a couple dedicated lines installed a few years ago. Here are some of the important tips I got and follwed:- if running multiple lines, run the lines on the same leg to avoid ground loops. - Do not have line... |