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| what will make the greatest differance in sound. There are a lot of good suggestions. My suggestions are:1. Get rid of the Monster cable, my god, you have a great system, this will give you a serious improvement.2. You are kind of waffling between preamp and CD player. I think you should conside... | |
| Error in Upsampling Certain CDs? Phild, that's a great diagnosis, are you a doctor? In 1988 at a frat party my date spilled a beer on a rack of my cd's including this one, the paper inserts to this day are moldy its not that gross). Of course a cd this old is gonna have some scra... | |
| Need advice on Cary 303-200: best power cord, etc. I have had the Cary 303, 1st the 100 and then the 200, have had the 200 for a few months. I have good results on the Bass. I am using DH labs Air matrix balanced interconnects. I recently upgraded to Symposium roller blocks for isolation which rea... | |
| Power amps: Bel Canto v.s. PS Audio Hybrid I have heard the PS audio amp in my system, but not the Bel Canto. All I can tell you is that the PS audio is very good, and very powerful, its efficient and smoooth. Very detailed and just a little bright. I know you can try it for 30 days risk f... | |
| what is diff: Class "A", "A/B", and "B" About the Pass amps, I believe that's what I said. The amps that slide the bias up around the crossover are "class AB" but claim "high class A bias" within the class "AB" range. Its very confusing of couse. For example, Pass is introducing pure cl... | |
| what is diff: Class "A", "A/B", and "B" Class "A" is pretty accuratley described above. You only need 1 transistor in theory but would use more for more power. The bias level (operating voltage on the) transistors keeps them "on" all the time regardless of input signal. This is very inn... | |
| preamp for aragon 8008st & Vandersteen 2ce sigs? I agree with the above, go with a tube preamp. I use a SF Line 2 with a solid state amp and the 2Ce's and have gotten great results. A used Line 1 would be around your budget. | |
| European -vs- US high-end Korean web site. This is slightly off-topic but not that far. I looked at the korean audio club website recently. Every single system had a room diffuser between the speakers and lots of room treatment, panels pillows, pucks, you name it. Plus mos... | |
| XM Digital Satellite Radio- What's the scoop? There are 2 articles about XM radio in this months' Sound & Vision. It is very surprising that neither one discusses the sampling rate or sound quality. The only hint is that it is compressed. The reviews seem to be centered on how good recept... | |
| How did U get into this expensive hobby? //////////////////////////////////////////////////A different type of answer//////////////////////////////////////////////////I strive for greatness all the while knowing I can never reach it. That is how I and many people here got started and why... | |
| Who Makes It Anyhow? The question is: how does one find out who is making the unit you are interested in? Are there any resources other than the basic magazines that we all read? | |
| Magnepan MGCC1 & shysters If he/she claims to be an attorney, I know in the USA you can complain to the appropriate attorney disiciplinary board, i.e. the state bar where the attorney is registered. Attorneys are held to a higher standard when dealing with ordinary people ... | |
| What is a good amp that cost no more then 3500.00 I agree. There are lots of great suggestions here. My suggestion is the Balanced Audio Technology VK-200, its within your budget and although listed at 100 watts is much louder than you would think. It sounds sweeeeeet! But give it a listen if you... | |
| Looking for Tuner/Preamp combo Someone here recommended a Hafler 945 to me, so I went out and found one. Its a remote controlled preamp/tuner that delivers great sound, has defeatable tone controls and costs about $200 used. I would recommend you find one of these, but the only... | |
| Noises that tubes make as they age I had a bad tube once. Being from NH, it sounded like a blizzard, with full wind effects, but not as loud. This was with a brand new tube preamp from Sonic Frontiers. A new tube cured the problem and now there is silence. I have a few tube items a... |