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| Need small speaker for less than $750. Ideas? Sometimes, your first idea is the best :-). I have Spendor S3/5 SE's in my 10'x11' bedroom, & enjoy them greatly. I think you pretty much described S3/5 SE's in your speaker criteria; except that they also have very good bass for such tiny spe... | |
| Can I expect to pay full retail for a new system? Has anyone notice that many high end stores seem to have these same 3 or 4 types of salesmen?--a slight, scrawny guy with a beard & glasses, non-descript personality, able to carry around gigantic full-range speakers by himself with no problem... | |
| Can I expect to pay full retail for a new system? I don't know why some of these stores don't have "Snooty Audio" as the name of their store. Or, "Snotty Pretentious Audio" maybe. They should do a sketch on SNL, with a pompous salesperson (played by Will Ferrell perhaps) insulting all the custome... | |
| Can I expect to pay full retail for a new system? Honest1, I agree, Paul is a good salesman at the snooty Audio dealer in Waltham. The other one you mentioned, once ragged on my than-current gear (loudly) in the lobby of the store, & in full hearing of other customers & employees. And som... | |
| I need help choosing my next tube preamp. Why do you have to have XLR inputs and outputs? If you can live w/o those, I'll add one more recommendation for a C-J preamp. Or a Cary. | |
| How revealing are Grado sr-60s'? I don't know those headphones, but Grados are supposed to be excellent at their price points. They might be just revealing the flaws in your amp & CDP--sometimes happens when you upgrade one component.....*do i really have to buy a $500 cdp an... | |
| Can I expect to pay full retail for a new system? There's a truly snooty "high-end" dealer near me (in waltham, MA) who will not discount anything, ever, even by 1 cent (so the only thing I ever bought there was a $10 bottle of record cleaning fluid). The list price policy might not have totally ... | |
| Upgrading to Totem Mani 2's I just ordered a pr. of (slightly used) Mani-2 Sigs. with the Totem stands; don't have them yet. I'll be using them with a C-J MF2500A 250wpc amp. I find it interesting that several people here have used or heard Mani-2's with C-J amps & reall... | |
| Whats going on with Cary Audio's website Tboooe,I have a Cary 303/200. Also a Sony dvd/sacd player. Having the ability to play sacd's is definitely worth it IMO. Most of the SACD's I have sound somewhere between excellent, & great, even on a 10 y.o. Sony S9000es. | |
| recommendation for best $1500 speakers? If you also consider used speakers, you could get some very fine speakers at $1500 or less. Of course, the better the speakers you get, the more dis-satisfied with the Yamaha receiver you may become..... | |
| B&W 805S & BAT VK300x SE Integrated. Synergy?? I don't have any direct answers to your questions, but a couple of observations that might (?) help:I'm using my 805Sigs with a Cary 303/200 CDP, Cary SLP98 preamp, & a C-J MF2500A amp, & am very happy with the combination. So replacing th... | |
| Using a 220v amplification equipment in the US To me, this sounds like the proverbial Rube Goldberg solution to a problem that doesn't even yet exist (your owning 220V equipment). There's really nothing available in 110V, new or used, as good as these Chinese components? | |
| Good tube amps to consider wit Spendor S5e I think you'll be very unhappy trying to use an SET amp with 87 dB efficiency speakers.....if anything I'd be thinking about trying an even more powerful SS amp, not a less powerful tube amp.....or else just stick with the 3Bst..... | |
| Can tube preamps be as 'detailed' sounding as ss? I don't know the minimax tubed preamp. I think the problem with your question is that it's so general & theoretical. The only way to "really" know what you like--and what sounds good with the rest of your system-- is to buy & try some used... | |
| Conrad-Johnson Sonographe S250 vs. MF2250A I own both a MF2250 ("non-A"), & a MF2500A. The MF2250 is a smooth, nice sounding amp. The MF2500A is a really excellent amp, & can drive a some fairly demanding speakers. I think the Sonographs were a cheaper line for C-J, & preceded ... |