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| Review: Pass Labs X350.5 Amplifier Hello Ipy, thanks for liking my review of the 350.5. As you know from the review, I use a Placette dual mono active line stage in my system. However, as far as I know, there should be no difficulty in matching most passive preamps, regarding volum... | |
| Would a new cd player make a difference? I had the Kyocera CDP many years ago and it was good for those times. However,I totally agree with Twu2, that you would be amazed by how much of an improvement you would hear by trying one of the better CDPs of much more recent vintage. Not just a... | |
| Von Schweikert VR4jr Wow,you must have a large $ resource to consider 4 grand for a pair of speakers to be considered in the budget category. I know everything is relative, but I would consider a pair of budget speakers would be around anywhere from $500- $2000. A gre... | |
| Best system for jazz? Budrew, when I posted my system here on the GON I called it "The sound of Jazz" because I mainly listen to acoustic jazz form the 50's, 60's and 70's. Swing,Be-bop,and Hard-bop are played on a daily basis in my home. Take a look at my system and n... | |
| Pass XVR-1 Crossover Muslover, if you own MG-20.1s congratulations, you have one of the great speakers of high end audio. In the response left by Rbautista, I'm the one he is refering to regarding bi-amping MG-20s.I chose not to upgrade to the 20.1s because the sonic ... | |
| Best Dac/Transport Under 50,000 You might be interested in the Ensemble Dichrono Hi-Dac and Dirondo Transport. I audtioned numerous digital high-end pieces,you could look at a review on the Ensemble gear posted here on the GON to see what I listened to, but choose the Ensemble p... | |
| Belles 150A Short Review Thanks for your fine review Phd. My audiophile partner just replaced an Audio Lab amp with a Hotrod version of the Belles 150 with the result that his whole system went up another notch towards the sound of real music. The Belles amps are great pi... | |
| Jazz Crossovers to the Pop Charts/Timeless Classic The song The Sidewinder by the late great Lee Morgan became a pop hit and was used on a car commercial around the middle sixties. The Blue Note album sold a great amount for a jazz album and was one of Blue Notes' best selling disks of all times. | |
| Maggies 3.6 vs 20.1 Sorry Chris, I truly meant no offense commenting on the ML Prodigy's. I would like to share just a few respectful comments on them regarding why I find them not to be a very good speaker. They never truly intergrated the panels with the woofers an... | |
| Which Solid State Amplifier is Making you Happy? Take a look at the threads concerning the new PASS LABS X-.5 series amps.I was using an EDGE NL-10 very happily until I audtioned a X-350.5 and was shocked at how much better it was than the NL-10,which is a world class amp.I also wrote a review t... | |
| Maggies 3.6 vs 20.1 Remember this is just my personnal opinion,even though I think its an educated one, based on audtioning all the speakers your interested in.First,the ML Prodigy has been dicontinued for good reasons,they were lousy sounding speakers. ML has not ma... | |
| What is a 'fast' amp? The way my friends and I use the term "fast" is an amp that has the ability to reproduce great and accurate details. Some people associate "fast" with bright and forward sounding,not good virtues,however the details and dynamics that a fast amp ha... | |
| RIP Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen So sorry to hear this. He was a great player, who contributed so much to the music. He will be greatly missed,but not forgotten. | |
| Heard the Ensemble Dirondo player? Hello Ciscomc, Have you completed your audtioning process regarding the Ensemble CDP vs. the seperates and if so what did you hear and what did you decide regarding your purchase? I would love to hear about your experience. Also,did you get to hea... | |
| Pass Labs X-250 vs. X-600 In the original X-series the gem sonicly is the X-600s. Not just more power but a significant improvement in all factors such as details,timbres,soundstage,etc. However, you might want to try either a new X-350.5 or when it comes out shortly,a pai... |