subaruguru
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| Best Integrated Amp $1-2k range Audio Refinement Complete sounded MUCH better to me than ACURUS, NAD, CREEK, and much more neutral than VAC Avatar (what a joke!). Simply the best integrated under $2k IMHO. DO NOT ASSUME THESE ALL SOUND THE SAME! All you need is an excellent, res... | |
| Best loudspeaker on the 3k range??? Rock? Hales 3 has prodigious bass/slam; classical/jazz/folk? Revel Performa F30 has GREAT midrange. Both speakers are MUCH better than Nautilus 804, but WAFs aren't the best.... (Frankly, they're better than 803 also...what a hideous tweeter integ... | |
| Balanced Interconnects?? The AQ Coral sounds great! I'm using it to limp along with my Rotel CD for now. MUCH more transparent and resolving than similar Monster, for example. It replaces the Ruby, and sounds better than it or Topaz, INHO. | |
| Wadia,Pass,Avalon tsv I just bought Aleph 2s, and am awaiting the Wadia 831. Meanwhile will use Aleph P as my CD won't passively drive the Alephs. Did you go with the Nordost to enliven the top end of the Alephs? I liked the Eidolons, too, but needed smaller speake... | |
| Am I deaf? Yup...junk the Classe. Wanna solve the problem on the cheap? I recommend the Audio Refinement Complete Integrated. Phenomenal 50w/ch SMOOTH piece. Their CD is mighty nice for the bucks, too. Both pieces are a LITTLE rolled off up top. Re: passive ... | |
| Best Interconnects and/or Speaker Cable Phew! Didn't I just read that NBS cables are rebundled Belden industrial wires? Let's face it: most cables are tone controls, and as such may affect your system in ways you find pleasing or displeasing; correlation between price and performance sa... | |
| Asymmetric Interconnect/Speaker Cable? Thanks for the posts, guys. I've just bought an AlephP to run balanced to the Aleph2 monoblocks, so won't I be safe running enequal BALANCED interconnects, but using equal, shorter speaker cables? (Hate to have 5 extra meters of interconnect flopp... | |
| Aleph 2 needs CD/pre. "P",Adcom,Wadia? Found/bought an Aleph P before I could find a used Wadia 830, so that's what I'll use with my old Rotel '855 until the 831 or some new-fangled universal player if that's viable relatively soon. Thanks for the help, guys. |