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| Best budget amp match with ProAc Tablettes Thanks for the valuable info! Actually last night I auditioned the Arcam CD37. Asked the dealer to put in Pavarotti & Friends and Mahler Resurrection symphony CDs. Even it was switched on cold, at the loudest and most crowded passages, the pla... | |
| How long it takes to break in Running Spring Haley Thanks for all the valuable inputs! I checked the specs of my gear, tube amp draws 95W, CDP draws 40W, that is 135W in total, way too low for the 1800W limit. According to local dealer, the Haley has 3 filtering modules, one for each duplex. For s... | |
| Feel let down by your audio software choice? I use exactaudiocopy (freeware recommended by Stereophile) to copy CDs onto HDD without any compression, into .wav files. Play them back using WMP 11, excellent quality. Not using any sound card, just the on board sound of my Gigabyte motherboard.... | |
| Good tube pre amp for a mostly digital system Just wondering if you have tried the Jeff Rowland Concerto preamp, cause you're using their monoblocks already. The whole system will have a sweet top-end, warm midrange, and clean, deep bass (but not too plumb). For my taste, there're only severa... | |
| Krell 400xi vs. BAT VK-300x vs. McIntosh MA6900 The Krell 400xi would be ok with smooth, laid-back speakers (usually with soft dome tweeters), like Spendor or Sonus Faber. Not even the ProAcs would sound good with it. If you use metal dome tweeters, you'll notice tilted-up high frequencies, whi... | |
| Nuforce with Stillpoints ERS fabric Here's my guess: the NuForce amps are injecting RFI back into the power lines and emitting it in the air, so your BAT phono, which amplifies much smaller signals than line level, is most vulnerable. You can try installing a power conditioner (such... |