rspyder
Responses from rspyder
| Soliciting Member Perspectives: Levinson vs Bryston vs Audio Research I'm familiar with all three. I owned ARC, including the Ref. 10 Preamp, and others in our local audio club have owned the other two. Personally, I'm not impressed with any of the three brands relative to other better brands. | |
| Are Pass Labs amps probably the best ever you can buy ? You should give very serious regard to the Octave MRE 220 with the Super Black Boxes. They will easily best the Pass Labs | |
| Paypal issue beware. I have stopped using PayPal as a method of receiving funds from sales. I received payment by a "PayPal cheque" in my last transaction and it took PayPal 10 days to clear. I could have got a Cert. Cheque or Bank Draft through normal mail twice as... | |
| AMPLIFIER BLOCKS HRS | |
| Vinyl from Barnes & Noble That sucks. My son and I had countless experiences like that with Amazon. In fact, we don't buy new albums or albums advertised as new anymore from Amazon. Better to buy from actual record stores. Fortunately we have enough here.Ray | |
| Picking a Tube integrated amp I've heard both and the Octave with the SBB beats it handily. A friend just got the v40SE with the simple BB and its spectacular. I have the SBB and its worth the price difference. Have fun!Ray | |
| Please help me chose a tube preamp A good friend in our audio clutch recently got the Octave HP500SE. Wow!! Love it!!! They have the HP300SE if the HP is a bit outside of the budget. | |
| Switching to solid state amp? Hi. I switched to SS: Ayre MXR's, but after a couple of years was not satisfied with the outcome. I went back to tubes: Octave MRE 220 with Super Black Boxes. They are simply superb and have provided the absolute best of a tube and SS amp: fast... | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing The American Beauty soundtrack "Dead Already" and "Root Beer" (Thomas Newman). | |
| Oppo Vs Esoteric Agreed. I have both and the Esoteric is so much better. OPPO is very good as a universal player (awesome on video) but it is a "digital" player with that distinct character. The Esoteric is designed to deliver Cd's and SACD's with a wonderful "... | |
| Question for cable/wire naysayers..... Cables (PC, SC and interconnects) absolutley make a difference and those who take issue with that statement haven't tried cables at the right level, don't have gear where it will really makes much difference or don't have the ear for this hobby. ... | |
| Member's recommendations for tube amplification If you are willing to consider an integrated at the high end of your budget you defintiely should consider an Octave. A few are finally showing up on this and other audio reseller sites. You can always add the Black Box or Super Black Box later.Ray | |
| What are the more subtle sounding tube preamps? ARC Ref 10. Simply WOW!!!! | |
| Which server / renderer to buy? I use a 4TB Antipodes DX as my ripper/server connected via USB or SPDIF to my Esoteric K-01X ("Kay") as a DAC. I still prefer SACD on my Kay so she gives me the flexability to spin the silver from time to time (old habits) and the Antipodes gives... | |
| 2017 amps - $10K to $15K who is on your short list? Octave MRE 220. Superb in every respect... |