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| Which cables? I have used and really like the DH Labs BL-1 interconnects as well, but I would not characterize them as warm so they may not be what you're looking for.I'd suggest a different tact. Don't mess with your cables until after you've upgraded to the p... | |
| new player or dac If you're going to avoid the new formats for a while the DAC may be a good option if it's not overly expensive. Otherwise the best way to go without having to invest too much into the evolving SACD/DVD-A technologies might be to buy one of Sony's ... | |
| Placette pre amp I believe you can try the Placette risk free for 30 days from the manufacturer. Sounds like that might be useful in your situation. Best of luck.Tim | |
| DVP 9000ES Mods? Worth the money? There are several good mod guys out there, as I'm sure others will point out, but the one I'm most familiar with is Ric Schultz at Electronic Visionary Systems(www.tweakaudio.com). If you read the info on his site you'll see a pretty convincing ar... | |
| getting a little obsessed with my first purchase Forget the DefTechs. If you're gonna be using the Sony for at least a while I'd generally stay away from speakers with metal dome tweeters, at least in your price range(although the Triangle Zephyrs recommended above may be an exception). This is ... | |
| Solid State amp with wide soundstage I'll second the McCormack DNA-0.5 or DNA-1. Very open, quiet, transparent, and smooth but with great detail and wide/deep soundstage. In fact, lots of tube lovers have praised McCormack amps. Another plus is you can save your pennies and have them... | |
| State-of-the-art DVD Video and SACD player? Buy one of Sony's cheaper DVD/SACD players and have Ric Schultz of EVS(www.tweakaudio.com) turn it into a giant killer. See the website for Ric's thoughts on the various mods. Best of luck.Tim | |
| Best Used DAC for 1000? If you can find an EVS Millennium DAC for sale, grab it. I use a Millennium DAC 1 with a Pioneer DVD transport with excellent results. Transparency, dynamics, soundstage, tonality, etc. are all incredible and a HUGE improvement over the DVD's anal... | |
| Acoustic Zen vs. Nordost - wchich one to choose? I find recommending cables to be almost pointless as their character can and often does change dramatically from system to system. That said, I've had shotgun Satoris, Matrix, and Silver Reference interconnects in my system and they have flushed o... | |
| WANT tukans to do the disapearing thing??? I used to sell Linn gear and I agree with P1s1. The Tukans are certainly musical and definitely possess the toe tapping, pace & rhythm thing that Linn is famous for, but disappearing into the room just isn't one of their strong suits(at least ... | |
| Multi-disk set up, DVD and audio. You might consider buying one of the cheaper Sony carousel SACD/DVD players(i.e. DVPNC600V) and having it modified by Ric Shultz, Stan Warren, Dan Wright, Kern, etc. This way you'd have one unit that will likely kill any stock DVD player and proba... | |
| Home Theatre speaker suggestions Hi Clack,If you think you might get serious about music in the future I'd strongly suggest you look at Axiom speakers. They will do nicely in an HT application, but they're also good enough that you could build a pretty serious music system around... | |
| I need to be wowed After reading through the above recommendations I'm shocked no one has yet recommended Vandersteens. I listened to the 3s at length and although they were a tad dark for my taste every other part of the spectrum was outstanding, as was soundstagin... | |
| personal experiences with quaility preamps... Dave,I'm going to assume since you're switching from a receiver you might not want to jump right into tubes, but there are some fine recommendations for tube stuff above.In terms of solid state, you could have one helluva good start with an Adcom ... | |
| need suggestions - transport for EVS Millenium Dac I've been using a Pioneer DVD player as a transport into my Millennium DAC 1 with excellent results. The ability to play the 24/96 DADs has also been fun and very instructive into what we can expect from the new formats, which I'm not venturing in... |