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| 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... | |
| Rockport Mira not Mira 2 vs. Monitor Audio PL300 I don't think the Miras would be considered an outlier of Rockport's sound or design philosophy, although it seems clear the company is now using different drivers in their new models that may very well sound different from legacy models. Not sure... | |
| Monitor speakers that disappear:best image/staging I've found Joseph Audio to be consistenly good in the disappearing act category. Audio Physic does well in that area too, along with many of the others already mentioned.Haven't read all the other posts, but inert stands and sweating the details i... | |
| Rockport Mira not Mira 2 vs. Monitor Audio PL300 Don't you just hate it when the responses are so wishy washy? | |
| Monitors that play huge I'm all for form following function, but for my taste I don't think aesthetics and C1 belong in the same zip code much less the same paragraph. They do look a helluva lot better than the hideous C2 and C4, but I for one would not have them in my l... |