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| Best tube pre-amps under $1,000 DODD Audio Buffer Kit. Kills everything and can be built by one self for right at about $1000.00 You will have to 5 to 10K to get better. | |
| New Lyra Delos wheres the bass? Check the phono amp loading settings. It sounds like you need to change the settings on your phono amp. I would start with the cartridge's recommended loading and try a few more settings in the range up and down. It sounds like you may have an imp... | |
| Yet another Mac music Question You should check out www.mach2music.com and I have tried both Pure Music and Amara and Amara sounds way better. | |
| Krell FPB 600 or 400cx? What was silly is the fact that Krell would build such a big amp with lofty claims that was as powerful as they said it was in terms of watts but could not drive speakers with tough loads any thing below 4 ohms and had a steep impedance curve like... | |
| Amplifier for Magnepan 20.1s Something big and powerful! | |
| Krell FPB 600 or 400cx? Do not buy a FPB 600, my FPB 600 is now a flower planter! I took off the top of the amp, removed the insides and put a plastic tub filled with dirt. it now hold beautiful flowers next to my fireplace. It now works better than it ever has. That was... | |
| Pass Labs 350 or MC402 ? Depends on what speakers. I own a Pass Labs X350.5 and it matches quite well with my speakers which are Apogee Duettas Signature Ultimates hand crafted by Rich Murry. I will be upgrading my amp to a pair of XA 160.5 mono blocks sometime next year.... | |
| Nakamichi PA-7 KEEPER?? Buy a Threshold those Naks are great for the money but for another $800.00 you can have real real amp that will sound much better than the Nak or the Rotel. Here is a link for a decent deal on a Threshold here on audiogone. If that is too much mon... | |
| Any Yamaha MX-600u owners out there? The MX 600U sounded better than the MX 1000U. I had a Yamaha R9 receiver a long time ago and traded it for a RX 1100U and that was a big mistake. R9 sounded much better. It appeared that the RX 1100U was the R9 with some improvements but the R9 ki... | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio My vote goes to the Avalon Eidolon Diamonds. A good friend has had both WP8 and now owns the Avalon Eidolon Diamonds and the difference are close between the two speakers as far as quality of sound and build quality goes. That being said when, I g... | |
| Kappa 9 vs Martin Logan Quest Z I cannot say which I like better the ML or the Kappa 8. I Like the Kappa 8 over the ML Zquest and the Kappa 9s. The ML is bright and hashy and the Kappa 9 has too much going on in one cabinet. The dual woofers in the kappa 9 fight with each other.... | |
| Cables for high efficiency speakers? Zu audio or Kimber Cable works great with high efficiency speakers. Cable with high efficiency speakers is not too much of an issue. I would not use a thick guage wire because a high efficiency speaker will react adversely to with skin effect. My ... | |
| Kappa 9 vs Martin Logan Quest Z The Martin Logans are very good. I set up set of the ML Quest Z for a client and they sounded great. However I have owned several sets of Infinity speakers. I would agree that the ML Quest Z sound better than the 9 Kappa, however the 8 Kappa is th... | |
| B&W 800 Signiture I think the 800N signatures sound better than the newer diamond 800 series. I am not sold on the newer Rohacel woofers and diamond tweeters. I think the paper/pulp woofer seems to quicker and more natural sounding. The tweeter on the nautilus seri... | |
| Macbook to USB to which one? Buy a 2010 Mac Mini instead, they sound much better than the MacBook. I have tried both. The Mac Mini is much quieter and has much lower noise floor. The power supply in the Mac Book has to power the screen which makes the MacBook noisy by compari... |