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| Help with Denon 2900/5900 or MarantzDV8400 or ? I have a short review posted here on a handful of SACD players and will add a couple more to that list in a few weks; click on the "review" icon under my screen name to read them. The SACD playback of the Denon is a let down when using the 8400 as... | |
| Help with Denon 2900/5900 or MarantzDV8400 or ? I don't have a 5900 in home (YET, one more week) but have heard from 3 seasoned audiophiles whose ears that I trust that the redbook performance of both players is EXTREMELY hard to tell apart, though SACD is a bit better on the 5900, and video is... | |
| upgrading from McCormack DNA-1 to.....? Tube preamps sound great....on paper. They seem logical to many, while newbie audiophiles fall all over themselves to get approval of their peers by having tubes somewhere in their setup--wouldn't be an audiophile without tubes, you'll hear and th... | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel No question that SACD brings stereo to a whole new level. There is no comparison, the difference is akin to the superiority of good vinyl over redbook and it's completely addicting once you appreciate it. To be honest, I have a heck of a time anal... | |
| Outlaw 750 vs Anthem 5 vs B&K 5125 vs Chiro c500 The Chiro amps are real turds with music, I owned the C500 and hated it. Slow, horribly imaging and soundstaging, laid back, haze over the fine details, not all that smooth, either, as I recall (didn't keep this one long at all). The Parasound amp... | |
| Von Schweikert VR2 vs. VR4 Gen III I think the VSA crew steered you in the right direction. Just like big Wilsons, to get the full advantage of the big VR4's, from my experience, you need to have them on a long wall, AT LEAST 12ft apart, even further apart is possible, and, I've fo... | |
| sugden A21L integrated amp vs PS Audio hca 2 ...?? You most definately do NOT need the PS Audio preamp to run their amp (They aren't Spectral pieces!). You can run pretty much any single ended or balanced preamp you find, active or passive, tube, SS or even digital. | |
| Improve the Sound of your Parasound HCA3500 Do these tweaks work for the HCA2200mkII as well? | |
| Review: Marantz Marantz DV-8400 & SA-14 vs. others CD Player Joyelyse,Yes! However, my dealer is less enthusiastic then I am to get these players in stock, so I'm at my dealers mercy. Whenever he gets a shipment I'll get one of the first. Saddly it will be at least 3 wks before I could feel comfortable writ... | |
| PS Audio vs Bel Canto vs Musical Fidelity shootout Thank you for the comments, Dannylw, I appreciate the defense and always good to hear multiple perspectives to see how gear works in other systems. Any seasoned audiphile will tell you that the amp-speaker interaction is what makes or breaks the p... | |
| PS Audio vs Bel Canto vs Musical Fidelity shootout Cosmic_void: The A3 24 dac was my favorite amongst a MSB Nelson, Bel Canto dac 1.1, Chord 64, Rega Jupiter and Jolida JD100 listening spree I had a few months back when on a digital binge. The MCD205 McIntosh 5 disc changer that ST reviewed agains... | |
| PS Audio vs Bel Canto vs Musical Fidelity shootout Thank you captain justice (Kalus or one of his pawns, I'm sure) for your highly useful comments. How long do you wish to kick this dead horse, might I ask? How neurotic are you to bring this matter up here in this unrelated post, let alone doing s... | |
| Parasound JC-1 with B&W Nautilus speakers? One mans "up front and in your face" is another mans laid back and dull sound, it's all relative. I thought the JC-1 where just right myself, front row seat but not at the expense of loss of dimensionality, soundstage depth, ease or transparency. ... | |
| Review: Marantz Marantz DV-8400 & SA-14 vs. others CD Player Thanks so much for the feedback! I can't agree more with the need for isolation and good pc for the SA-14, more then any player I've ever owned. The machine sounds simply bad when using it's supplied feet flat on a shelf, not in a small degree is ... | |
| Von Schweikert VR2100? Tried the Coda/Continuum integrated with good results, also heard the MF A300 integrated in a showroom with different Vons, but wouldn't put them anywhere near to on par with the PS Audio digital amp and the PCA-2 preamp combo, which is pretty spe... |