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| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? Etmerritt33, I also criticized a bit in my previous post, mainly about the $1K spent to ship them to Magnapan. Seems like you just dug yourself deeper into this loss.But: the Magnapan customer service issues do sound awful. Almost Like they're *tr... | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? *actually i have a difficulty to match speaker systems with*Well, what ARE your speakers? That'd help a great deal to make a recommendation. But in general, for "lush" sounding tube amps, I'd say start with Cary, &/or VTL....."vintage" means s... | |
| Bowers and Wilkins 805s, use as TV speakers ?????? M805's, or N805's? Neither are my favorite speaker (I've owned both), but you & lots of other people love them.Anyway, I routinely watch movies & even general TV thru 2 channel audio systems hooked up to both of my TV's. Very satisfying, d... | |
| How much power is enough for B&W Nautilus 804's? I haven't owned N804's, but I've owned several b&w's, inc. Matrix 802's. No matter HOW much power I fed the 802's, the bass was never tight or coherent enough.I sold them & bought Totem Mani 2's, way better bass (& almost everything el... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? Some questions.....FedEx Ground? They are notoriously bad. Also, maybe I missed this, but did you not use paypal? Shouldn't the seller have been on the hook? And those are very large speakers--are the orig. boxes not sufficient, or appropriate? Se... | |
| Fisher 800B or Fisher 500C which one is the best I dunno, but I had a Fisher 500C in the '70's that my Dad bought in the '60's. I thought it was great, "by the standards of the time".Of course it's like buying a 50 y.o. car, now. I'd actually search for someone who refurbs-repairs those before b... | |
| Upgrade from Audioquest which is good? I don't know the price of audioquest type 8's. But DH Labs makes some nice sounding, affordable cables. I have a pair of their T-14 speaker cables that I'm using in a fairly high end system. | |
| Stereo preamp upgrade I'm not sure you're going to get a huge upgrade from the Rotel preamp, with a $500 used pre-amp. It's possible I guess, if you look at old enough C-J or Audio Research units.If you had $1000, a C-J PF-R (SS), or a VTL TL-2.5 (tube), if you can fin... | |
| McCormack REV B upgrades. Better than a new amp? This is a little OT, as the only McCormack amp I ever had was a stock 0.5. Very nice sounding amp "as is" IMO.Here's the thing: that DNA 0.5 I bought used arrived with a lot of damage, as the seller had used ridiculously poor packing. The whole ca... | |
| Upscale Audio -- Tubes and Reliability *06-25-12: BifwynneMabonn, just a guess here, but I think it may be because the VT100 Mk II may not be user friendly when it comes to biasing the tubes. I've read somewhere that the bias pots are very close to some high voltage rails or contacts.*... | |
| Looking for best $1000 tube power amp I'm not familiar with your other components. But look at used Conrad Johnson & VTL power amps w/in your budget. Even a used VTL ST85 could give you the Lushness you want, if you don't need a lot of power. Modern C-J's can be more "accurate". A... | |
| need advise Yeah, almost always piece it out. Fee-bay is one place to track prices--look at both current listings, & "completed" listings.And depending on your area, listing on CL can be a good idea. No fees, no shipping, ask for cash, etc. | |
| Matching up speakers and amps *Actually, I have no issues with the sound of my system, just that I have had the McCormack and the Acurus pre amp for 13 years and I'm itching to try tubes!*Easiest thing: Get a tube pre-amp. Like Mechans said, a used ARC, C-J, or Cary, you could... | |
| Matching up speakers and amps Based on reading about the DNA 0.5, & having one in one of my systems (with Spendor S3/5 SE's), I'd keep the McCormack--very nice sounding amp, unless you have very hard-to-drive speakers perhaps.PS--what are you looking to do, i.e. what's bug... | |
| Any way to "improve" a Conrad Johnson MF 2500 I'm late to this thread, but own both an MF 2500A, & a MF2250 ("non-A"). No hums with either. They're both very musical-sounding amps. I can't tell that the MF2500A sounds "better" than the non-A MF2250, except for the increase in power. And a... |