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| Magnepan 1.6 and 3.6 replacements? I read the same article and didnot have the impression that the gist was that Maggies are "outdated" at all. I will not put down the ET LFT-VIIIa's, I have heard them and believe they are wonderful speakers, at a great price, but let's get real, t... | |
| Acoustic Zen vs. Nordost See I told you, anytime someone doesnot like Nordost Valhalla the fans of this over priced/praised wire always retort that the "bright/thin/kinda-in-your face" quality is because the Valhalla is revealing whats wrong with your system. The only sys... | |
| Acoustic Zen vs. Nordost Jec, I have directly compared these speaker cables in my system and found the AZ Satori to have everything the Nordost Red Dawn had to offer, but were much more balanced top to bottom and were more "musical/organic" than the Nordost wires. I find ... | |
| Wadia 861se vs All others. I totally agree with Mr. Porter, many different technologies can offer reference level performance along with different "flavors" based on personnal taste and system synergy to provide great sonic pleasure. I audtioned many DACS, DCS,ML,Audio note... | |
| time for amp upgrade I like Nrchy statement," Don't take anyone's word", but use your own ear's with your gear in a home audtion. I went through a audtion process that included ML, Boulder, VTL, Antique Labs, and finally replaced my Pass Labs Aleph 1's with an Edge NL... | |
| Best solid state pre-amp below US $ 10.000,00 ?? Frankpiet, thanks for responding to my inquiry, but you did not answer my question regarding the build quality statement that you made about the Placette that was negative. Not if you find its looks acceptable, but its parts and construction. By t... | |
| Are benchmark and Maggie 1.6 a good combination? Mamzh, your going to love your MG 1.6's their great speakers and one of the true "bargains" in highend audio. They will be fine with the Benchmark DAC, however you might want to consider the Bel Canto DAC II, I have heard both DACS with the MG 1.6... | |
| Best solid state pre-amp below US $ 10.000,00 ?? Frankpiet, when I first saw the Placette dual mono active line stage, I to also thought it was an "ugly ducking" untill I heard its sonic's in my system, than it became a "swan" in my eyes. I just paraphrased John Mark's words from his Absolute So... | |
| Best solid state pre-amp below US $ 10.000,00 ?? Frankpiet, the pre-amps that I compared the Placette to were, ML-32 reference, Weytech Opal linestage, Hovland, Lamm reference, and Ayre. None of them were bad by any means, but with my gear synergy was the best with the Placette and matched my pe... | |
| Any sonic benefit to sheathing on the AZ cables? Since I'm a great fan of AZ products, because of their wonderful performance/cost ratio, I would advise you to contact Mr. Robert Lee with any questions you might have regarding your new speaker wires. I have often called him in the past to discus... | |
| Best solid state pre-amp below US $ 10.000,00 ?? I tried five highly regarded pre-amps, three tubed and two SS, and bought the Placette dual mono active line stage because it was terrific in my system. Money was not an issue, my budget was up to 15grand, however I consider this piece a total bar... | |
| What's the best CD and/or multiplayer today It's silly to say their is one best piece at any price bracket because of personnal taste, along with many fine products are on the market at the same time. If your talking about spending $15000.00 on a redbook cd front end I would recommand you a... | |
| Reference I and my audiophile friends only use the term "reference" regarding a companie's flagship product that the company believes is the finest peice they can produce at the present time. For example, ML reference 33 mono-blocks, their most expensive/fi... | |
| which cables for my system? Scrapiron, at one time my total system was wired with Transparent Audio Labs high level ICs and speaker wire. I than started to audtion wires from Audioquest,Nordost,Straightwire and Kimber(all the higher end of their lines) and was not very impre... | |
| Best speakers with Pass labs X-350.5 Pkmclean, I posted a reveiw of the Pass LabsX-350.5 here on the GON, so I know how terrific of an amp it is. You only mention box enclosed speakers in your list of possible speakers for your system, however MG-3.6s or 20.1s are great match-ups wit... |