vincehoffman
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| Merlin owners Hey there Dredster-Jrinkerptdnet has described the Bam and its function perfectly. It is an entirely analog component . The only thing I would add would be that the Bam also filters out really low frequencies and subsonic garbage below the boost ... | |
| is2e or is2 transport.. what is available? I've been running an EAD T8000 Universal Disc Transport into my SFD2 for 5 or six years. It sounds splendid and when combined with a great aes/ebu balanced datalink, some Amperex NOS tubes in the output stage, and a balanced pre on its outputs has... | |
| Buying Dealer Demos Another thought...You've probably just saved yourself a month of mediocre sound as your dealer has already broken the speakers in! | |
| linelevel pre that facilitates balanced bi-amping? You can add the Aesthetix Callisto to the SF Line 2/3. Actually had an SF 3SE home for extended audition. The Callisto was the only linestage I found that beat it out overall. It was a close thing. If remote had been a big deal the decision might ... | |
| Sonic Frontiers P-3: No Upgrade Thats really too bad. I had the 24/96 update done to my SFD 2 about a year ago and am very happy with the results. I suspect that there simply wasn't enough P3 owners out there to begin with let alone very many rattling the doors to have their pro... | |
| Personal amp evolution SAE, Bryston 2B, None (Meridian powered loudspeakers), Spectral, Radford STA15, Meridian, Cary SLA70, ARC Classic 30 (x2), Krell KSA100 (oops, wrong direction there!), ARC Classic 150s. I've recently had some rather simple mods performed on the 15... | |
| Dupont Corian for Isolation Now thats the ticket! A local Corian installer built a couple of these for me out of scraps he had left from many kitchen projects along with some smaller fully enclosed boxes I could fill with sand and uses as chassis dampeners for on top of gear... | |
| Recommend a good value X-over w/stereo low end The outlaw sounds promising but I'm simply using one X-30 per channel with my system and only using one input. A little more gear clutter but it works great. | |
| Paradigm Servo Sub Fix Hmmm... I'd not heard of this problem prior to your post. I actually run two of these beasts in a very quiet dedicated room. They cover the bottom-most octave only in a high-end two-channel set up. One of them is only a few feet from the listening... | |
| ARC Support This ones for Abe and Hasse (& any one else who cares) The LS16 I had home to audition was embarrassingly noisy. I actually run a completely balanced system so I was hearing the '16 at its best. My favorite low-noise NOS 6DJ8 alternatives from... | |
| CARDAS speakercable:warm and details? or warm? Between my ARC Classic 150s and Merlin Milleniums- and for that matter- between every piece of gear I own now, I'm running Gold Ref. It replaced a complete XLO signature lash-up about six months ago. Everything is well burned in now and I goota sa... | |
| help me select a single tube to "calm down" a preamp? Hi Ho there audio pilgrim-There is only one tube present in an LS2B and the bad news is that no matter what NOS wonder tube you choose you will not be able to get rid of the LS2B's tendency to shout and get nasty on big dynamic swings. NOS tube ro... | |
| Which DAC? Levinson, Theta, Sonic Frontiers I'd have to second Keis' oppinion. After hearing one against my SFD2 series 1,I had mine updated too. My observation regarding the series 2 version of this DAC was that many of its problems were not shared by its predecessor. The first generation ... | |
| Sound proofing listening room In regards to the suggestion of what amounts to a suspended ceiling. You could well make things sound a lot worse in your room taking that route. I strongly second Tom's suggestion of perusing both the book he suggests and another by the same auth... | |
| Anybody knows Rega Model 2 Speakers? Here is the deal on your speakers as I recall it. A long while ago (15-20 yrs ago when I was in late teens) I first saw the Rega models one & two loudspeakers. I thought they sounded pretty great back then too and they were quite a bit more af... |