twoleftears

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Audio Hungary Qualiton X200 Integrated
The same seller also sold a Raven integrated, so I'm guessing yes. 
My Experience With Tekton
Be aware that some manufacturers change the parameters of the figure that they're giving to massage the result.  The only way to know for sure is to find an independent, reliable website or magazine that has tested the speaker and published result... 
Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
It seems to me that there are basically two types of tweak: the substitute tweak and the add-on tweak.Substitute category: you're replacing something that your system needs in order for it to work with a something else that performs the same basic... 
Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
Typical politician's tactic: if you can't win an argument, distort the terms of the discussion out of all recognition, and then start arguing about that. 
Classical Music for Aficionados
His recording of the G.V. is on Hyperion.  How much difference from the live perf? 
Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
+1 jjss49.  If you're sinking thousands into your system, do something substantial like getting a significantly better component rather than spending the money on overpriced tweaks. 
Subwoofer Connection: Speaker Level Amp to Line Level on Sub?
TAPE OUT or REC OUT take the signal before it's attenuated.  Tape recorders are built to handle this; not so much subs.  Which is why some preamps and some integrateds have more than one pair of PRE OUTs. 
My Experience With Tekton
@three_easy_payments    I believe they were ProAc Response 3, excellent sounding classic speakers (I owned Response 2.5's for years).  He may confirm. 
Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
It's the law of inverse proportion: the more barely perceptible the "improvement" is, the more hyperbolic the language will be to describe it. 
Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
Par for the course, I'm afraid. 
Recommendations and thoughts for end game speakers and amps
If I'm reading between the lines correctly, I thought it interesting that in the recent Stereophile review of the Boulder, the reviewer found that it did not best the Krell integrated he used as comparison, just that the Krell was slightly warmer ... 
Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
I agree that it's a question of proportion, and the way the discussion is carried on in a lot of threads these days, an unsuspecting reader might easily get the impression that substituting one brand of audiophile fuse for another makes as big a d... 
Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ?
The amp is likely the least of your problems.  Address some of the other areas of concern first. 
Looking for a tube preamp with remote control.
The Rogue headphone amp RH-5 is also a full-function preamp with balanced and unbalanced input and output, tubes, remote control, etc.  An optional phono module brings the total price to just under 3K.  Some prefer it to Rogue's more expensive off... 
Classical Music for Aficionados
How do you guys feel about Anna Gourari?  I've seen her recommended, but not listened to anything yet.  Any recommendations?