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| My stereo receiver is a little too bright. Can a cable help me out? @audiozenology...………..Well, whattya know, you agree with some of us. Who would have thunk? In all seriousness, all these so called golden wonder receivers and amps were made during the distortion wars of the 70’s. Transistors were still maturing... | |
| McIntosh C45 - A truly hidden gem? Never had a C45 but my C2500 preamp and MC302 amp makes gorgeous music in my main system. I never cared for all solid state and always got my best results with a tube preamp and solid state amp. I am driving a pair of GE Triton Reference speakers. | |
| My stereo receiver is a little too bright. Can a cable help me out? Most audio receivers from that era, ie Kenwood, Pioneer, Sansui, Sony, Marantz(made by Superscope), Onkyo, Toshiba, etc all sounded like that. I sold that stuff for many years. That stuff was made during the distortion wars in the 70’s. Sell it ... | |
| Parasound A23+ vs. Emotiva XPA-DR2 @big_greg..............................Perhaps I should have been clearer. Yes, I had one of their DAC’s and hated it. A buddy had a pair of their big amps he bought new 2 years ago. He asked me to listen to his system as he said it sounded hard a... | |
| Parasound A23+ vs. Emotiva XPA-DR2 @big_greg.......................It isn’t snobbery. I owned an Emotiva DAC at one time and speak from experience. I had their dac and it was so bright (it shouldn’t have been as it had an Analog Device chip). It was nails on a chalkboard and I cou... | |
| Speaker for my system around 10K$, used. @andy2 .........................mine are in a 15 by 18 room. The bass is adjustable and the speakers are only 6 1/2 inches wide in front and around 10 inches in the rear. They take up no more space than a pair of stand mounted speakers. | |
| Upgrading a CD/SACD player with integral DAC @soix ...................................My Esoteric UX-3 SACD Player has a BB PCM1704 R2R Ladder Dac and it also plays SACD. It is the best sounding player I have heard that I like. When I purchased it from Spearit Sound, Ralph (the owner) told m... | |
| Speaker for my system around 10K$, used. Golden Ear Triton Reference. 10K. There is a pair for sale on here for 6.5k used. | |
| Parasound A23+ vs. Emotiva XPA-DR2 Emotiva is low mid-fi pretending to be high end. Those that own them and believe they are high end either have never really heard even a modest high end system, or need their ears cleaned. | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? I had my McIntosh C2500 tube preamp mated to a Conrad-Johnson MF2550 solid state amp. Sounded horrible unless you like the sound slow and syrupy. The McIntosh MC152 and now the MC302 sound incredible with the C2500 preamp. | |
| Classe 15 vs Classe CA200 @tonykay ...................I would have loved to give it to you. Those amps were bridgable. The 15 was not as good as the DR15. Glen Grue made the amp more profitable for Classe’ by redesigning the circuit and using cheaper parts. I read the 1... | |
| to fb or not to fb... that is the ? @wesheadly.......................I agree with you regarding the Political posts. I called out FB on one of their blatantly false Political ads and I was rewarded by being put in FB jail for a week. Myles Astor a professional audio reviewer and wh... | |
| Watts and power No two 200wpc amps are the same. It has to do with-current. A200wpc Class D amp may only put out 27 amps of current per channel, while a 150wpc Odyssey Class AB amp puts out 60 amps of current per channel. Guess which amp sounds more powerful? | |
| Beginner Audiophile. How to chose a right amp? Recommendation for my setup? If you can still score a Parasound A21 new, that is what I would buy. They are around $2500 new and less used. At 250wpc into 8 ohms and more into 4 ohms it will be all the amp you ever need, even if you make upgrades later to the rest of the sys... | |
| Classe 15 vs Classe CA200 I had a Classe’ 15 amp which I purchased new in 1999. I believe I paid $2900.00 from Ensemble in Nashua, NH. I liked it a lot but after I bought a new Odyssey Stratos Extreme in 2010, I realized how muddy the Classe’ 15 sounded. I ended up giving ... |