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| small speakers The Ascend Acoustics Sierra 1 gets really nice reviews and I think can be had at or below your price target -- that would be my choice if you're buying new. Minuets are great too, but you can probably get a pair of used SR17s in your price range t... | |
| Budget integrated ideas: budget $650 I'll throw in the Bryston B60 since it hasn't been mentioned yet. | |
| Extremas with Clayton or Gamut Audiobrian -- can you elaborate on the major differences you hear between the two amps? | |
| Anybody heard the Verity Rienzi? Is it too late to return the kid? | |
| Looking for New Speakers - Suggestions I think if you heard ATCs they would knock you out of your chair -- the cleanest, most powerful and dynamic midrange I've ever heard yet still well balanced overall. Of course it always comes down to personal taste, especially with speakers, but I... | |
| Best amp s for 11x14 room under $4000 new/used ? There's a Clayton S-40 that just popped up for a little over $2000. I would think that amp would meet a lot if not all of your requirements if you don't need an integrated amp. Best of luck. | |
| Best speaker value between $1800-$2100 Just saw a pair of Silverline SR17.5s for sale here at a little below your minimum price (so with stands you'd still be in the ballpark). Hard to imagine these wouldn't be a fairly significant step up in performance from your Preludes. | |
| Best speaker value between $1800-$2100 Would help if you described what you're looking to improve over the Preludes. Some good recommendations above, so I'd add the Salk Songtowers that seem to get very nice reviews (and they can be had new in your price range) or maybe the Gallo Ref. ... | |
| Smooth Sounding Tube Amps that Can drive ATC I'd add to your list the new Clayton Audio S100 -- love to hear what that amp could do through an ATC midrange. | |
| Smooth Sounding Tube Amps that Can drive ATC Seems like you're pushing a bad hand here. ATCs may work with 50wpc tubes, but sounds like they really don't open up fully until you give them some real juice (even more of an issue because you listen to Rock/Pop). I would think to do that with tu... | |
| Improve my system I think Queefee makes some good points. I think your most noticeable overall improvement per dollar spent would come from implementing Audyssey into your system in some way if you haven't already (I'm not familiar with your processor). After that ... | |
| SS Amp Recommendations? Maybe in this rotten economy someone will sell you a McCormack DNA 0.5 for around $500. It'll have some years on it but they've proven to be a pretty reliable/robust design, and resale is good. Mine's over 10 yrs old and the only thing I've done i... | |
| Linn amps vrs Bryston "Cleanest and most detailed" certainly sounds like Bryston to me, and in my system no other amplifier controlled bass better. The fact that other people have liked them with Maggies is also a good sign. Spectron sounds like a good recommendation a... | |
| processor that could serve as a good preamp Is your priority 2-channel or multi-channel? Music or movies? If it's the former in both cases you might consider buying a $300 A/V receiver for multi-channel processing duties and invest in a good stereo preamp that you can leave in place for ser... | |
| recommendations for upgrading Bryston BP-26 I suppose in addition to the Levinson mentioned above something from Classe or McIntosh might work. For some reason I'm having a really hard time thinking of a ss preamp that will do what you're looking for (I've got a BP-6 by the way), but on the... |