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| The Magnificent Magnepan 30.7 speakers....wait, I don’t like planars! I can't speak to the 30.7s, which should be awesome, but my love affair with maggies ended when I owned 3.5Rs for a few frustrating years. In my large room I had to add subs. I used a 4 channel amp 2 for the ribbons, 2 for the bass panels. I bough... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic just maybe when we log in AI grabs us b the receptors to spew hatredwhat a waste of timeand from Geoff of people | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. Kudos playmoreOP, Recently I went on an in depth search to replace my Parasound P 5 preamp(MSRP $1095). Aside from fitting my budget, the 2 main reasons were; it has separate XLR E/O circuitry, and a separate bass control circuit, which I was hop... | |
| Emerald Physics: Ultimate Bang for the Buck? Price is per pair. I did a review of mine on AA.Shows ar the worst place to demo , and, many mfgs are poor set up men | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Was it Einstein who said, "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler"? If a passive has a buffer stage, is it still a passive? | |
| Emerald Physics: Ultimate Bang for the Buck? contuzziAre you suggesting I was paid to do this? If so, I suggest you investigate how long I have been AG member | |
| Speaker recomendation Basd on my jawdropping experience owning Emerald Physics KC IIs (with WireWorld OCC internal upgrade) I feel confident recommending EP top of line, which is about 10K | |
| Speakers or amp to be upgrade? I have been both a hobbyist and a hi-end audio cona owner. contrary to the above, the best place to make changes is closest to the source, if not the source itself, | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? With almost a week in use, and a wide variety of favorite music spun, the biggest issue I have is that it is doing it's job too well. In part, due to the lack of overdesign, and quality resistors, it ruthlessly exposes when recordings are subpar. ... | |
| First Foray into XLR almargmaybe I have bat ears, but I can hear the difference in the same Eichmann XLR cable: 0.5m v 1.0m | |
| First Foray into XLR sisyphus, your background makes your lack of knowledge as to why one would use XLR over rca in a typical < 3m audio system (where all components in the signal path are tre balance/differentially balanced even more disturbing | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? lartecafe, Do you mean the kind of noise that putting your ear against the speaker with no music playing but volume wide open? | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? atmasphereAs was mentioned already, Hattor offers PASSIVE and BUFFEREDMine is PASSIVE | |
| First Foray into XLR Anyone who says LRs are of little use is ignorant, or just plain stupid. SorryI upgraded my system over a decade ago from rca to fully balanced, but that IS the key. Many manufacturers pay lip service to balanced by providing XLR I/Os BUT their co... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? atmosphere, all I could find on the Baxandall was math and schematics. What good is that? |