tonyangel
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| Upgrade Minuets to Supreme Plus? Just in case anyone is waiting for a response, I got my Minuet Supreme Pluses in today. So...the question was, is it worth upgrading from the Minuet to the Supreme Plus?My answer is I don't think so. I mean, I can immediately hear that the Pluses ... | |
| Speakers for newbie Bob, I appreciate the information. Personally, I'm a bang for the buck type of guy and have found that amplification is one of those areas where you can find some really good deals on oldish equipment. | |
| Nad c 162 Soldersplatter is right. Perhaps I understated the deal that you have. When I said that it wasn't the best of anything, I wasn't saying that it isn't good. I was only saying it that in light of all of the other equipment that is spoken of here.It'... | |
| Speakers for newbie After Bob's mention of the ATI amps, it kind of made something click in my head. I mentioned the NAD because that's what I started out with and many have had good luck with them.Still, as mentioned by many, there is a lot of good stuff to be had u... | |
| Speakers for newbie Not trying to hijack, but I have to ask about the ATI amp.Bob, how would you rank the ATI amps as compared to higher end amplifiers. I'm asking because I've seen some really good deals on the 1202 model and really not having much experience with t... | |
| Speakers for newbie As far as amps go, considering your budget, I'd say look at some NAD amps. Some consider NAD to be poor man's hifi. You can pick up a pretty beefy NAD amp with 100+ wpc here and on ebay for a couple hundred bucks or there abouts. You might also wa... | |
| Does The Squeezebox Touch Have a Worthy Successor? Ozzy,You really don't need to be computer savvy to setup a Synology Diskstation. You just pop the hard drive into it, plug is into your router/switch/hub and run the setup disk. Next thing you know, it shows up on your network. | |
| DAC for entry level system I have to append what I said above on the DLIII. After having posted what I did above, I started having second thoughts and went and checked the specs on the DLIII.What I found (as opposed to what I remembered) is that the DL III can only handle a... | |
| DAC for entry level system Bedel,I can't comment about Musical Fidelity gear, except to say that I've found that it sounds kind of thin in my system. Lots of guys like them, though.Look, I've found that once you get into a price point, most things are going to be equally go... | |
| Speakers for newbie Yeah, man. Go buy something and let us know how it sounds.I've gotta admit, the Lores have my interest, since I found out today that we're gonna have a spare room pretty soon.The only thing that bugs me is buying new, when in the situation that th... | |
| Neutral or warm? Which do you prefer? I agree that some impromptu venues aren't bad. I live in New Orleans and a lot of what you hear being played in the narrow streets sounds pretty good. Of course, that could be the drinks talking, or listening. | |
| Neutral or warm? Which do you prefer? Neutral is satisfying to our ears as no one part of the spectrum is out of line with the rest, drawing attention to itself.Nonoise, I think that this is what I would have tried to say and goes with the notion that some systems are cold and some sy... | |
| Speakers for newbie 4zoranss,Man, I'm not trying to give you the impression that I know it all. I don't. All I'm saying is that A/V receivers generally aren't built to cater to two channel listening with full range speakers. Most people get small surround monitors an... | |
| DAC for entry level system Honestly, if all you're trying to do is do better than the DAC in the Touch, that isn't going to be very hard to do. As I mentioned, I'm running a very modest XDA-1 DAC and it is a clear improvement over the internal DAC of the Touch.There are lot... | |
| Upgrade Minuets to Supreme Plus? I'm expecting them in tomorrow. I got them used, so they'll be broken in. I'll be sure to post something.I also assumed that the reason I didn't get any responses was because most of those that have the original Minuets felt no need to upgrade to ... |