swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| Recommendations: poor college kid; NAD? Nate- I have had NAD AV int. amp, NAD tuner, NAD tape deck, and NAD CD at various times. Had a few minor problems with tuner 10 years ago. They do source their equipment from different factories around the world, so there is likely to be significa... | |
| HT system with small speakers If you can find them on the used market, I would consider NHT superzeros of superones (five used all around). Add a sub for the L&R and a second for the LFE if you are going DD or DTS. | |
| Newbie Letterbox Question Days of Heaven was absolutely awesome. A visual poem. I never knew the midwest could be so beautiful. If you liked the visuals, check out A Thin Red Line. I believe its the next movie David Malet made (ca. 1999) Same visual theme of blowing grass-... | |
| Toshiba HD vs. Sony Wega If you folks don't mind a little divergence from the essence of this thread- I have had a real hard time dealing with the "flat screen" of the Wega. It (the immage) always looks like it is concave to me. The color and resolution are awesome, but t... | |
| HDCD Cd's Sorry, both came from local HMV CD store (almost said record store). | |
| HDCD Cd's I just bought an Acoustic Disc HDCD ACDS-24, also a re-issue of Joni Mitchell Court and Spark Asylum 1001-2 HDCD | |
| AR Turntables as a starter table? I had an AR XA about 30 years ago, carted it from place to place when in college and after for about 15 years. I was reliable. I would be careful about age, though. Also dust cover was unhinged which was a nuisance. but the thing always worked (no... | |
| Speaker cables for hybrid amp? Thanks for your thoughts, esp. Avguygeorge. I am running ARC SP9mkII, CAL10, and the Vandys (2ci). I have been toying with the idea of a new amp, any thoughts out there. | |
| Speaker cables for hybrid amp? Thanks all. Any help is appreciated. With respect to underamp comment (Avguygeorge) Do you mean underpowered? Seems like more than enough oomph for my 14 x 22' room. CD is CAL 10 which I have just hooked up to the Soundstream DAC1 I bought here (s... | |
| CD player finally died. Need rec. If you're just looking for a recommendation rather than a philosophy, I will tell you that I am very happy with my CAL Audio CL-10. I think that the CL-20 plays CDs and DVDs. |