thymanst
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| Is Usher still around I’ve been trying to order a 8948a woofer from them since spring. It’s used in a bunch of their speakers. I’ll have to send the damaged woofer to millersound if they aren’t making spare parts anymore. (I have contacted Katli and they don’t have the... | |
| No love. Why? I had some 20v3 and thought they were ok - right when I was selling them I tried them near field and then I thought there were really good... | |
| Magnepan or Carver??? I had a pair of the Carver ALIII's , there were OK to me, although I never got them to sound special like the pair of Apogees I have now - there was a disconnect with the bass also (small bass driver) they dont go very low either... the 3.5's are ... | |
| Navigating Mac Mini with I mac Where does your music reside now.? If it's on a Mac you can just buy an airport express and stream to it then to the Dac - I have a Mac mini on my main system and can control it with my iPad or iPhone using remote app to play a system in my librar... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase I always ease my wife into a purchase by offhand saying "wow, thats a good deal"or "what the heck " when looking at things on the internet - a little later I bring up what a good deal it is(even if I've already agreed to buy it) Shes pretty cool a... | |
| Integrated amp for B&W 805S under $1200? Jolida 502brc is running (very well) my Matrix 802 s2's more thab enough power and very good vocals,etc. | |
| Why Mac Mini Over Slim Systems Products? Surfing this post while listening to music ripped to my mac mini (apple lossless thru itunes) Just ripped the songs I like off disks (and downloaded) and have 6 days worth of greatest hits | |
| tubes with b&w Listening right now to 802 matrixs with a Jolida 502brc tube integrated that sounds very,very good - as good if not better than the Meridian system I have (DSP-5000's) | |
| Wise audio aphorisms "It sounds like two monkeys banging on a trash can" sorry, I been dying to type this , but didn't want to insult anyones equipment... | |
| System advice I had the same amp wih 2ces, not sigs - the anthem is a good value amp but didnt mate well with Vandies (I had B&K preamp comparable to Anthem pre) The best I've heard the Vandies is with The Jolida 502brc I have now (Tube integrated)and very ... | |
| B&K Reference 4430 3-channel B&K is good about fixing thier product - pay according to getting the amp fixed... | |
| Clipping Is your Accuphase amp running all 5 speakers? what kind of volume level are you playing them at? what kind of current does the 6 channel Accuphase put out? | |
| How much longer will CDs be made? The only CD's I 've played the last two years were into my mac mini to rip them to lossless files - I'd be surprised if I used a CD player to listen to music again... I've got my mac mini hooked up thru a 42" plasma and with Itunes I can play what... | |
| How many system makeovers to get to where u r now? In the last 5 years (not counting HT changes)- 8+ amps (now Meridian pre - amps in speakers)12+ floorstamding speakers - many bookshelf (now Meridian DSP-5000)3 CDP's (now mac mini+DAC) I'm pretty happy with the Meridian system, it does more thing... | |
| Where are you today? All SS, then Jolida 502brc - didnt think it could get much better (more expensive tubes maybe) but then I got a great deal on whole Meridian system ( dsp speakers and pre/processor ) - the wow factor is there every time I listen now - I dont know ... |