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| Active Placette pre sound better than Passive? Redwoodgarden, my hunch, looking at your total system, is yes, the Active would offer a sonic improvement over your passive. I'm sure Guy would setup an audition and if I got my facts right, you get the full value of the passive towards the Active... | |
| "Reference" Preamps Ghunter, the Placette Active Linestage, in the context of my system, exceled in the following sonic areas:1) The Placette offered the most natural timbres of any preamp I have ever had in my system.2) The Placette was far more transparent then the... | |
| "Reference" Preamps Ghunter, I have heard three of the linestages on your audition list and would recommend that you add the Placette Active linestage.The Placette Active linestage sells for $5000.00 because Guy Hammel sells his creation direct, otherwise it would se... | |
| Active Placette pre sound better than Passive? Redwoodgarden, I have heard both the passive and active Placette, my reference is the active which replaced a Mark Levinson reference 32 which cost $10000.00 more, and I would say the active is about 15% to 25% better then the passive. But, that l... | |
| Placette RVC review in Stereophile Pubul57, I have heard both and still believe in my system, that the Active was about 15% to 25% better sonicly then the the passive. But, as we know that last percent in audio still makes a big difference if you can hear it.I was talking to a desi... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Hello, to everybody who still follows and participates on this thread.I was wondering if anybody had had the chance to audition yet either the brand new Meitner EMM Labs single box player or the other just released EAR Acute player which is the of... | |
| Accuphase DP78 vs...? Fabio3181, I just posted on my thread, Reference DACS: An overall perspective, a short review of the DP-78 compared to the Esoteric X-01 Limited, only on red book not sacd.I was not very impressed with the performance of the DP-78 in the setup I h... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective I just want to share my experiences regarding auditioning the Accuphase DP-78 CDP. Years ago I had the reference Accuphase digital front end gear that was quite good in its time era, but had not listened to an Accuphase piece in many years. This p... | |
| Review: Accustic Arts DAC1-MK4 DA converter Dan, thanks for your kind words regarding my review of the MK4 DAC. It would be a pleasure to hear back from you what you think of the performance of MK4 in the context of your own system. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective I have just read another, about the third, superlative review regarding the non-upsampling Audiomat Maestro DAC that is made in France. I know that Exlibris likes the sonics of non-upsampling DACS, so I was wondering if he or Branimir, who lives a... | |
| Marten Coltrane and Kharma mini opinions Newly, I would highly recommend you give a call to Nellie at Audio Federation, they are dealers for both Kharma and Martin speakers. She's an absolute delight, extremely knowledgable, and totally honest in her opinions. | |
| Power conditioners and amp dynamics??? Mp666, I run two sets of monoblocks( Pass Labs XA-100's and Threshold SA-1's) through a Running Springs Audio Jaco line conditioner with great benefits with no loss of microdynamics/slam/punch at all.I posted a review on the Jaco here on the GON, ... | |
| AHs anyone heard the new Ayre MX-R mono blocs? Tom hankins, a question asked with total respect, are you the kind of audiophile that would only audition one brand or one pair of amps before making your purchase?Even if the Ayre's did not cost $16,500.00 I would audition as many amps as I could... | |
| Power Conditioner Suggestions Chadlesko, I have had Richard Grey and Shunyata power conditioners in my system at different times and believe that Running Springs Audio's Jaco line conditioner was superior to both of them. I wrote a review of the Jaco here on the GON that you m... | |
| AHs anyone heard the new Ayre MX-R mono blocs? Denf, the Ayre MX-R monoblocks retail for $17000.00. I auditioned them in a total Ayre system driving MG-3.6's. I found them quite good except in two areas: 1) Not as much "air" around each player in the soundstage, along with the soundstage not a... |