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| Silver cables A bit over your budget, but a used pair of Acoustic Zen Silver Reference (I or II) are nicely detailed but also musical. Best of luck. | |
| Vandersteen 3sigs vs. Triton Two Agree with Sidssp that it might be worth looking at the preamp as well. If you have a good dealer nearby who'll let you borrow another preamp to compare that might be worth trying.That said, I heard the 3a Sigs a while back driven I think by Quick... | |
| New power amp or use Pioneer SC-25 as power amp I think Emotiva may be right. The analog line inputs probably utilize the Pioneer's volume control and I didn't see any other Main In inputs that would bypass the volume control. The bottom line is you can still try it and compare it to the result... | |
| Benefits of dedicated lines for amp performance I have dedicated lines and adding power conditioning still made noticeable improvements. I suppose results will vary depending on the quality of the electricity coming into your home, but that's just a guess. | |
| Know a Good NYC Electrician for Dedicated Lines? This should be simple and probably will yield nice results, but when I did mine I got several tips on how to do this correctly so as with everything in audio nothing is ever simple. Some of the tips I got in case they're helpful:- Run the lines of... | |
| Suggestions for New/Used amp under $3500 You hook your high-quality source for stereo music (let's say a CD player or DAC) directly to a good stereo pre or integrated amp into its normal input (if using a stereo preamp that would then be coupled to a high-quality amp), then route the fro... | |
| Suggestions for New/Used amp under $3500 "Preamp outputs from a Denon 3311ci receiver."Whoa. Stop right there. Is your priority 2-channel or home theater? If the former your first order of business is to address the preamp issue. The preamplifier section of even a decent midfi receiver w... | |
| Poor man's Rockport Atrias? "While I am willing to spend $20K on speakers I would of course prefer to spend less even if it means giving up some performance."Yeah right. Who you think you talkin' to here? You know as well as the rest of us those Rockports infected your audio... | |
| Sutherland 20/20 v Manley Chinook I'm in the same ballpark for a phono pre and the VTPH-1 (one for sale here now), the Allnic H1201, and Sutherland are all high on my radar as well. I'd also mention there's a Parasound JC3 for sale here that could be interesting as well. Best of l... | |
| Any Well Tempered Amadeus Users Going Mat-less? Dhcod -- have you (or anyone else) heard a Simplex vs. an Amadeus in an A/B comparison, and if so what were the sonic differences between the two? Thanks for any thoughts. | |
| Advice on monitor/bookshelves under $2,000 Since you've liked Alons in the past why not take a look ate the Nola Boxers? Great reviews, and you can add an Announcer center speaker later (or another Boxer). I think Joseph Audio RM7s are also worth a look although you'll need to find them us... | |
| Thinking About A Change Crap, forgot to mention PSB and GoldenEar as well. | |
| Thinking About A Change "The only thing lacking in the N804s is a more robust bass"I was doing some consulting work for a high-end audio dealer in the early 2000s and got to hear the 804s directly compared to several other brands. I don't mean this to be a jerk, but the ... | |
| Subwoofer for Beginner Agree with Yogiboy. But if you can spend an extra $150 the SB-12NSD might be a worthwhile upgrade looking longer term. The bigger question is how you plan to integrate the sub with your monitors since that will be key. I think the Velodyne (former... | |
| Thinking About A Change What aspects of sound reproduction are most important to you and what areas would you like to improve upon? Tough to make any meaningful recommendations without having some idea of these. |