soix
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| Cables that are more enhanced than Acoustic Zen I've been using Satori shotgun biwires for a while as well, and though I've had several others in here I keep coming back to the AZs for their balance of strengths. They're detailed enough to keep me interested and let me know what's going on in a... | |
| Help finding my way with amps... Audio ADD for sure. You're not married are you. It's a Wonderful Life. | |
| Tube pre/power combo for Rockport Aviors You should really contact Andy Payor at Rockport to see what he recommends both for power requirements and what he likes with the Aviors. Personally I wouldn't do anything until I heard them with my CJ gear and then go from there, which is probabl... | |
| Best speaker choice under $1000? Given your music preferences I'd look for a used pair of Monitor Audio RS6 or RX6. They're very detailed and transparent and will provide more of the bass that your music typically has and that most monitors can't produce adequately. A used pair o... | |
| Power Conditioner for Video under $500? Sakahara, why did you get rid of the Haley? You seemed very happy with it. Just curious. | |
| Best DAC under $ 2,500 on used market Haven't heard an Esoteric X-03, but I had a Bel Canto DAC3VB in my system for a while and it was to say the least excellent (if I could've afforded it, it would still be here). It's very good on its own, but with the VBS power supply it goes to an... | |
| Amp upgrade from Bryston 4B I'm kinda thinking upgrading your amp and using it with your Outlaw prepro is a bit of a mismatch. If 2-channel is important to you I'd consider getting a better stereo preamp and use that to drive the Bryston (or whatever else) and let the Outlaw... | |
| $165k - $200k speaker performance for $40k ? It's crazy to think that my recommendations of the Aviors and Q3s as "small" since they weigh about 500 lbs. per pair each, but it is all relative in our hobby isn't it? I still think with good subs they could be compelling even in this space.Howe... | |
| $165k - $200k speaker performance for $40k ? In my experience the deepest bass provides significant benefits in imaging/soundstaging in addition to reproducing the lowest frequencies, so I guess I may differ from Onhwy61 on this. The cost-no-object designs provide this foundation so I think ... | |
| Emotiva XSP-1 Pre-amp No experience with this pre, but a friend of mine has their UMC-200 prepro and is not thrilled with it. It had problems that required him to send it back to the company to fix (which they did), and the interface was overly complicated and not very... | |
| Building a house with dedicated stereo room-advice I'd recommend reading "Premium Home Theater" by Earl Geddes. Don't remember it going into electrical distribution per se, but at the very least it will give you a working knowledge of the basic concepts of and what it takes to build a room that so... | |
| What speakers match my system? $3,000 Budget Lots of speakers can match your system, but it would be helpful to know what aspects of sound are important to you and what you're looking to improve from what you have now. | |
| Starting small home theater, need advice Don't worry about asking questions here. We're all perfectly willing to spew our audio/video vomit for the most part. Monitors is kind of a shorthand way of writing that the speakers are relatively small and require stands, versus floorstanding sp... | |
| Monitors that play huge Congrats on the "owls." I'm sure they'll sound fantastic -- great speakers and a great company. | |
| Starting small home theater, need advice At this level I'd say minimize the cost on the receiver and put more of the dough in the speakers. Just make sure you get the features you need. I don't think preamp outs are necessary -- chances are if you're going to add higher quality amplifica... |