tennisdoc40
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| What is your take on Mapleshade products Recently added the Mapleshade Excalibur IC's to my system. My tubed phono stage has a pretty high output impedence, and my cables have all been Spectral/MIT, good buys used, but favor low impedence SS gear. Out of the box, the bass perfromace was ... | |
| Aesthetix Rhea? I recently purchased a demo unit of the Rhea SE. I had always heard it in a large open area of the show room, and had always loved the music. When I got it home, I was surprised how loud the unit is, audible at the listening chair. I contacted the... | |
| Spectral DMC 30sl Thanks, I did find the section in the manual that instructs to leave it on. It does run warm, and I replaced the acrylic top with the metal one, should be a better conductor. Otherwise, this is an major upgrade from my DMC 12, no slouch in imaging... | |
| upscale audio is this legal? This thread should be dropped. Obviously an attempt to intimidate a dealer into capitulating from a buyers inattention to detail, or lack of understanding. Do you think a dealer with hundreds of thousand of dollars of inventory is going to stake t... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Any Spectral Amplfier. Though the evolve, there is a basic house sound that is clear and detailed. During the CD evolution, some found this sound thin or too detailed. Now that we have excelent computer driven DACS and servers, as well as resurgen... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Vandersteen Model 7, driven by Aesthetix phono/preamp/monoblock amps. Recent demonstration. | |
| Best Electrostatic loudspeaker? Former magnepan owner here. 3.3. Powered by Spectral DMA 180. Quite clear,but could never get the imaging right,and the bass response was inadequate. Subwoofers at the time were not up to the task. Went to dynamic speakers for last 14 years, Audio... | |
| Dynavector XV-1S ---is it overkill for my system? Sir, I disagree on this matter. I made an impulse purchase of a DV XV1S DV tonearm, and VPI aries TT. I've been a Rega Planar 3 and DV 10 x 4/5 guy for 15 years. I heard this combo playing through Reference Audio Research phono and preamp. This wa... | |
| Pre amp for low output cartridge The cartridge has .28mv output. Spectral DMC 12 pre amp.Spectral DMC 90's running in bridged mode. 180 wpc into 8ohm. | |
| Spectral vs Pass Have had some experience with Magnepan 3.3's. I was using my dma-90's bridged with output of 180 w/per channel, and couldn't flesh out the bass from the Maggies. The dealer lent me his DMA 150 at 150 wpc, lower wattage, but higher current and the ... | |
| You got to be ?& ยท Kidding me I suggest an audition of the PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport and DAC. It offers multiple choices of sampling and filters. The setting that is most pleasing is 44.1,and auto filter setting. I have spent hours listening to this and there is no fatig... | |
| Integrated Amp for my Audio Physic 2 speakers Any decent solid state amp will run Audio Physic well.First time I heard Avanti's they were on reference tube gear. I had no interest at all, and happy with my Virgos.Next time in the store, they were running on a 50 watt solid state integrated am... | |
| Musical Fidelity A 1008 CD player Thanks Hens. Found an Audiogoner who was selling his, and his has the same delay. First experience with tubes since my Philco TV in 1969. |