wchang
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| French Astree label Not to hijack the thread, but I'm curious how many of us here are fans of Early Music... | |
| does your system "warm up" and then sound better? I very carefully experimented with a Unico hybrid. It would take two days to sound its best, with significant changes at 2/4/6/8 hour marks. Even swapping hot tubes with cold, the amp otherwise fully warmed up (i.e. on for at least two days), took... | |
| Importance of Soundstage/Imaging My preference: coherence, dynamics, detail, timber, openness, imaging, air, bass.My opinion: The last 2 or 3 can sometimes be remedied by selecting components, adding supertweeter/subwoofer, and room treatment. The middle 2 or 3 are really importa... | |
| Luxman L-530 or Marantz PM-84 II Based on my limited experience with a Marantz Esotec PM-5 (25W class A) and an old Luxman L-530, I believe the Marantz sonic style (during that period) is more powerful, especially in the bass, and more direct, whereas the Luxman style is more lai... | |
| SS amps as good as the classic ARC 100.2? Thank you both!Anyone compared 100.2 with Parasound Halo, Spectron Musician, Unico SE etc?Ideally I'm hoping to find a lower-bias/non-class A candidate, or one with "standby" to reduce substantially the warm-up time needed for best sound. | |
| Best Two-Way Monitor Speakers under $700 New/Used I had great results running a Musical Fidelity tube buffer between the Quad 12L Active and Quad 99CDP (which has digital volume control). So a tube preamp in front of the 12L Active should be even better. I also put mousepads between the 12L and t... | |
| Rawson Amps Chewrock, is the heat sink you used also DIY or is it commercially available retail? I may buy a First Watt something, but the Class A heat and wasted energy especially WHEN IDLE bother me quite a bit. Given your expertise, I'd appreciate any thou... | |
| Stacked Bookshelf Speakers -- Perplexing Nirvana? Thanks for the replies. The Monitor 2.5 were eBay $250 oldies with very fast gold dome tweeters but the mid/woofers aren't quite so quick. So the highs complement the F120A nicely while the mids compromise the overall transcent response and "wavef... | |
| Using two center channel LCR speakers for stereo Thanks everyone!I also found a monster thread on avsforum (Monitor Audio Owners Thread) where someone did this with GSLCR. I placed a Wanted Ad here but so far no "used" ones have turned up. Thanks to the dollar's recovery (rather, fall of the sti... |