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| Anthem STR vs Parasound JC 2 BP vs any other sub $5,000 Preamp? Jason, as you pointed out in the beginning of this discussion: You have a hard bouncy box of a room and I strongly suggest that you put carpet in the room to soften things up. With such a small room, you can find carpet remnants very cheap, with... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Just a point of perspective; I am old enough to remember that Phillips invented digital audio and proposed a joint venture with Sony to stop competitive standard conflicts. Phillips' proposed standard was PCM, with 21 bit resolution. This came ou... | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? Fellows, this has been a very interesting thread and I even understand a lot of it, but I am reminded of two things: 1) Two ( or more ) cooks can start out to make the same meal and come up with very different products. It doesn't mean that their... | |
| Why so many wilson alexias for sale The answer is almost always because of disappointment with results. You pay so much, you expect more. Reviewers don't have to pay. The can talk about the small improvement in this or that. They can change components to optimize, you generally can'... | |
| Sadly missed manufacturers I owned and loved a system with an Audire Basic amp rated at 100W/ch @ 8 ohms and 200W @ 4 ohms, with an Apt-Holman preamp that was a real control center; with a pair of Maggie's ( MG-11Bs ). The amp is still working. but the PC cards disintegrat... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Roger; How do you feel about the design characteristics of hybrid amps, say with a tube preamp and a solid state power amp like the Rogue Pharaoh? Does this approach offer advantages of both tube and SS, or does it compromise the best of both sid... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Skyscraper; you are asking for a lot of explanation in your question and I'm sure that you will get a lot too. However it likely will be overwhelming, so I suggest that you give yourself a subscription to both: THE ABSOLUTE SOUND and stereophlle... | |
| Opinions on these budget integrateds? Does anyone have comparison experience with the NuPrime integrated amps, like the IDA-16? | |
| Looking for speaker recommendations 2tuby; I think that you would be well served to spend forty or fifty bucks to acquire back issues of the Absolute Sound and Sterephile, especially their issues with "editors' choices" and "best of" recommendations. It will get you some good read... | |
| Is this an excellent value? I'll probably get ripped for saying this, but what the hey. Why would any one want to buy an upstart Chinese amp/preamp from someone who wants to get rid of it when you have so many safer choices of quality equipment in the same price range??? | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers Mike; I am late to this forum and see that you have already been overloaded with advice and, a lot of it seems pretty good too. However, let me suggest to you one important aspect of critical listening that no one has mentioned, and that is your... | |
| Tekton Double Impact vs. Vandersteen 2ce sig II Like the originator of this thread, I haven't been on this site very long, but I have noticed several references to auditioning equipment which is not practical for many. Twenty five years ago I could and did audition equipment. Today I can not d... | |
| Need to recap my Classe Audio DR-8 Amps - need suggestions Folks; I am new to this site and several of the earlier respondents show more practical experience than I have. Also, I have never heard of "reforming" capacitors before, however let me state that all electrolytic caps are essentially chemical ba... |