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| Digital Amplifier Questions Kijanki...what a great response. Hearing and tech analysis agreeing on something. What a concept! | |
| How Do You Feel about The Cable Game? When John Dunlavy was alive, he had some very strong opinions about the 'cable game'. He would do extensive blindfold tests with a variety of high end cables to see if differences could be consistently detected and then compared that to much lower... | |
| Digital Amplifier Questions My experience has taught me that there is a vast difference in the approach that some manufacturers have taken with Class D technology versus others. An example would be Rotel vs Jeff Roland. Albeit, that we are talking about two companies targeti... | |
| Tube life in preamp. Please help The one thing that no one has mentioned is the cost of keeping tube gear on all the time. I had an ARC SP9 at one time and it wasn't drawing that much power, but it together with a pair of ARC M100 monos and we're talking $20 to $30 a month in pow... | |
| Anyone using ARC Ref 5SE Preamp with McIntosh 275 The ARC Ref5SE and a McIntosh 275 is NOT, 'a-match-made-in- heaven'. Even if the impedance can be resolved, you are talking about performance characteristics on the opposite ends of the scale. | |
| Best amp for $550 to mate with the following... I'm using a 7 channel Emotiva amp in one of my systems. It started out sounding OK... but now that it has 100 hours or so on it I'm starting to be impressed. A lot of performance for the money! | |
| CD vs internet and DAC That's a good question and you'll probably get a variety of responses. My personal experience is that a CD 'fully tweaked' still sounds the best. 'Tweaking' is an art/science which can include a cleaning agent such as Optrix or Shinola, demagnetiz... | |
| Power conditioners: Shunyata and PS Audio Before buying either of these 'very pricey' units, I'd try Mapleshade's best power strip. I bought one of these more out of curiosity, only to find that it works very well for anything other than high-current monos which really need to go straight... | |
| Advice on upgrade If you haven't 'tweaked' the system with AC conditioning, isolation, room treatment, etc...I would do those types of things before changing out components. I've had a couple of systems similar to yours which benefitted greatly from modest priced '... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 A further thought on ARC vs McIntosh in general. I have heard a lot of demos with ARC components vs McIntosh components. These are two great companies with loyal followers. My personal experience, however, has been that with the exception of some ... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 The Ref3 in a heartbeat. | |
| Audio - Post Divorce On the first date with my wife (some 35 years ago), I had her sit down and listen to my system which was composed of Magneplanar Tympanny 1Cs, SAE electronics, a direct drive turntable and an M&K sub. I put on Electric Light Orchestra and turn... | |
| Amp and preamp on same outlet? Plug your amp straight into the wall and the preamp into a power conditioner of your choice along with the rest of your non-amplification components. Then enjoy your system, and consider the many excellent high-end tweaks which do so much more to ... | |
| Help with System Musicality Before you spend a lot of $$$ it might be that a Schumann Resonator could move the system in the direction you want to go. Acoustic Revive has the RR-777 and Kemp has the SR Plug. There are also units on E-Bay from other sources. I am using the ol... | |
| Should I switch to a preamp with balanced outputs I have experimented with all single-ended vs. all balanced. There are many factors that would influence the outcome, but in my test I actually preferred the single-ended option. As a result, I had a fairly lengthy talk with the cable manufacturer,... |