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| Are High End Audio Products Unreliable? The only units that ever gave me problems are CD players. Relatively short lives on early Sony and Micromega units that forced upgrades before i wanted to spend the extra money. Evrything else i have bought over some 30years has been problem free.... | |
| Levinson 27.5 to 335 I owned a ML331 for fourteen years and did not experience any capacitor problems that have been mentioned on this site. I used it to drive Thiel 3.6's that dip down to about 2.3 or 2.5 ohms. AThis does not invalidate what others have experienced, ... | |
| Where to get good hifi deals Stanwal has a good suggestion in MSS hifi. They have a good web page. I have not bought or sold from/to them so cannot provide a view based on experience. I like a couple of high end dealers who sell demo and used equipment. One is goodwin's highn... | |
| Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K With cd reproduction technology continuing to improve, why not buy an oppo bd-95 or sony 5400es both of which have reviewed well on audiogon and in the rags. They are multi format players so they do not fit your specification, but it is not clear ... | |
| Cj Premier 11A fuse Call conrad johnson. They are very helpful. | |
| Is the Squeezebox Touch complicated? I bought one based on the reviews. I could not make it work with a windows xp pc, and now that i have an imac it cant even find the netwrk and let me get internet radio. Just an expensive paperweight right now. BTW the help desk at logitech is use... | |
| B&W 805D2 or Magico Q1? If you are going to spend 25K on a speaker, why not just get the 802 or 800 Diamonds? You will get a full range speaker that sounds terrific ... like real music with correct overall tonal balance and timbal accuracy, sound like you would hear at a... | |
| Old tapes reveal how BAD FM became A few classical and jazz stations still have decent quality. Eg QXR in New York or FMT in Chicago for classical or BGO in newark, nj. They present live music occaisionally and the improved quality surprised me, an indication of the quality loss in... | |
| Where to find steel footers? Try a hardware store. They often carry small brass or stainless steel tack like hardware which is rounded on one side and has a nail on ther side that you can push or lightly hamer into the underside of a floor standing speaker. Just use three in ... | |
| Speaker suggestions at around $30k b&W 800 or 802 diamonds, Wilson sasha and sophia, revels. | |
| Do I need a DAC? You have an excellent player and pre. I doubt that a separate DAC will add anything unless you spend megabucks to upgrade! | |
| Loss of inner detail The Sony upsamples CD's and then uses a simpler filtration system that affects the audio band a lot less than traditional filtering on 44/16 CD's. Read robert harley's bok to understand this better. | |
| Classe move to China I contacted Classe regarding the CA 2300, the 300 watt pc stereo unit. It will work in pure class A mode to 20 percent of rated output, i.e. 60 watts of class A power. That may be why it sounds so good .... In multiple comparisons with the McIntos... | |
| Speaker Burn In? I just bought a pair of B&w 802 Diamonds and a Classe 2300 to drive them. They sound great right out of the box after being delivered on a chilly morning. Letting them burn in with use, which is heavier during the holiday period. The Sony 5400... | |
| Searching for new speakers: Wilson, B&W, ?? I have recently auditioned the B&w 802, 804 and Magnepan 3.7The magnepan's made me turn the volume way way down. That bright!The b&w sounded like real music one hears in a jazz club or orcehestra hall. The 802's provided a better soundstag... |