wspohn
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| 30 Watts of class A power: What Speakers are you using and suggesting? I also use a CJ Premier 11a driving Wilsons (in my case Maxx 2 - which had a lot of input in the design of your speakers which are sort of half sized Maxes). They will drive you out of the room before the amp clips.Suggest that you keep that amp a... | |
| Separate DAC or continue using the Oppo UDP-205 Sonos is a handy house distribution utility, but as others have said, they don't have a top notch DAC on board. I use stand alone DACs with unprocessed digital input from the Sonos for better sound.Having said that, the Oppo has a very good rep a... | |
| SOTA Cosmos and other models - lean sounding? I use a Cosmos in my second system. I would not characterize it as being lean. | |
| Tube life I did a lot of auditioning of both low level tubes and power tubes in preamp, power amp and phono stage, and found that there was no reliable general rule - some brands sounded better in one use and another in a different use. It is cheap to try ... | |
| Recommendations for a new integrated amp for Vandersteen 3a speakers I like just about everything David Belles has built (I believe he still hand assembles himself on at least some models). I used to use a Belles A (think he made less than 200 of those).I would think that 100W would be fine to run your Vandies.(87... | |
| Good CDTransport (player) without DAC? Anyone know anything about Emotiva ERC-4? Yup - use one in my main system when I want to audition a CD to see if I want to add it to my library. But as was said earlier in this thread, ripping to a full fidelity music file and playing from a se... | |
| A moderate priced dac I went through this awhile ago. Bought a Hegel HD12 which bettered anything else I could find at the price point ($1400, IIRC).Another one you don't see much press on is the Monarchy NM24 preamp/DAC. Look up Dick Olsher's review in TAS a few years... | |
| High value, giant killer speakers? Vandersteens - all of them. I honestly prefer the 2s to the 3s, even though the 3s are more accurate, and the 2s with a pair of the subs over the 5s, for the same reason. 2s are a bargain classic, but I like the later larger models which have ... | |
| Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore? The best crossover is a high grade capacitor to roll off the bass going into the mid/high.One of my systems uses a pair of monoblocs to feed the mid and highs, and a separate set of monoblocs to feed the bass, with what is basically a fancy gain c... | |
| can someone answer me this..... I went through the tube rolling phase with my CJ Premier 11a and 14 in my main system and was able to arrive at considerably better sound by doing that. I suggest that you make sure you have no polarity issues and then post your query on a tube b... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr Love the Quad ESL 57s, but own original Martin Logan CLS - they need care in set up and good stands to get them up off the floor but offer a bigger share of magic than any of their other models I have listened to (haven't heard the CLX bit would l... | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? A friend who has a vinyl set up has been eliminating albums that don't sound better than digital but keeping the ones that do. Not a bad rationale | |
| WAF Speaker suggestions Show her this picture and tell her you found a pair (they are white).When she regains consciousness, tell her that to make her feel better, you'll change your mind and get something else. Anything you come up with should gain approval much more ea... | |
| Replacement for Vandersteen 2ce I like the suggestion of Vandersteen 3 or 3A or 3A Signatures, depending on what you can find. You should get similar but better sound from them.(I own and use a pair of Vandersteen 4A in one of my systems) | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps First question is why one would need to move power amps other than when they are first installed....can't think of any good reason, but you could always invest in some amp stands with casters.I tend to prefer Class A and Class B with big power sup... |