tholt
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| Good "warm" CD player for $500 Spend your $500 on room treatments before you buy anything else -- a few well placed acoustic panels will benefit your bright problem, and your entire system, more then another cdp IMO. Acoustic panels are prob the most unsexy thing you can buy bu... | |
| best cd player for 300-500 bux dude, weird. did you move your speakers? first thing I would check. are your speakers working correctly? try playing with speaker placement and toe-in.the cdp will automatically bypass the internal dac if you use one of the digital outs -- coax or... | |
| Tired of HT The more I read this thread, the more I think the OP just wanted an excuse/justification to build a 2 channel system. | |
| Tired of HT After all of the advice given the OP elected to go with 2 systems. His prerogative. One advantage of going with 2 systems may be that the 2 channel room and system is optimized for 2 channel listening. I wouldn't mind having a dedicated listening ... | |
| Tired of HT If you have the room(s) and the cash...go for it. It's a luxury to have both | |
| best cd player for 300-500 bux and to add, getting another player just for a removable power cord makes no sense to me. | |
| best cd player for 300-500 bux Or the MHDT paradesia DAC that seems to get raves anytime it gets brought up. it's on my demo list. I concur with getting an outboard DAC though. in your price range to get anything that has a chance of being an upgrade, that would be the way to go. | |
| Solid State Preamp for Nuforce 9SEV2 How about one of Nuforce's own? | |
| Convert speaker cables to interconnects? ? Would you expect much from China junk ?Not sure what or who your comment refers to. 47 Labs is Japanese | |
| Tired of HT To clarify if it wasn't clear before, my suggestion is to transform your current surround sound setup into a competent 2 channel setup via a good 2 ch amp and preamp. The receiver would be used for movies only (powering the center and rear channel... | |
| Eastern Electric Mini Max CD No Longer made ? In fact, one is for sale right now. | |
| Recommendation on IC's and speaker for this system I second changing tubes before anything else. Those were not good 7 years ago, and certainly no better now. Amperex is a good choice | |
| Eastern Electric Mini Max CD No Longer made ? They are still fairly regularly available here, if you're patient they will pop up. | |
| Eastern Electric Mini Max CD No Longer made ? Bill @ Morningstar (US Distributor) told me that he dropped the CDP due to the inevitable migration to server-based music (paraphrasing). I didn't think that was a very good or understandable reason, perhaps there is more behind it. Nevertheless, ... | |
| Tired of HT If you like your speakers (and you still want surround for movies), you could sell off your amp and pre/pro and replace them with a HT capable receiver (decent ones for $500 or even less), then save/spend on a capable 2-ch amp and preamp. Integrat... |