213runnin
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| The Future of Audio Amplification Sorry guido, I gave at the office. | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Speaking for myself, I love it when someone starts a thread with the title “the future of...” . Whatever comes next is whatever they’ll be peddling, singing the praises of etc. Class D, why are the fans of class d so defensive?we get it. You like ... | |
| Emotiva equipmet, how good is it? FYI to the OP, the XDA-2 is long out of production. Their current dac may be better.LJG, you must understand, when Emotiva was selling the XDA-1, they were calling it a digital preamp, and marketing it as such. Doesn’t that seem just a little wron... | |
| Emotiva equipmet, how good is it? I had an Emotiva XDA dac. It was the brightest and thinness sounding piece of crap I ever heard. You get what you pay for. The worst were the very bright and ugly led’s. It could burn holes in your eyeballs. Never again, I got connedMy experi... | |
| Emotiva equipmet, how good is it? As an XPA Emotiva amp owner(until I sold it off) I have to differ with some of the comments. I had the amp paired with a pair of higher end speakers, and it’s weaknesses showed up. Not very accurate bass, overly bright at higher volumes and this ... | |
| Problem of compensating with cable a component tone problem? The first priority is to do no harm to the sound. I think we can all agree that this is the first, or at least a major priority.The challenge with cabling is, your typical amazon or mono price garbage DOES do harm the to sound. It can be argue... | |
| Warmer sounding Solid State The Hegel 160 was stated in your link as having a somewhat forward sound. This would be the wrong characteristic for someone looking for a warm sound. | |
| Warmer sounding Solid State I’ve had a few Parasound Halo pieces, and I don’t concur with the above mentioned “slower attack on the mid-range” characterization. I haven’t heard anything like that with several different loudspeakers.But everything in the chain has a say in... | |
| Looking for a piece to complement my Parasound Halo A21 I also had an Emotiva xpa amp and tried out an A21 Parasound. I ended up getting rid of the Emotiva as with some speakers it’s too harsh or bright sounding with flabby bass, compared with the A21.as for a new 5 or 7 channel amp, how about the Pa... | |
| New Adcom GFA-555 se - Special Edition I dunno, maybe the 555 was the biggest selling solid state amplifier? 100,000 units is surely some kind of an achievement, don’t you think? And I repeat that there is no way it would have sold like that for a decade or more if it had mediocre SQ... | |
| New Adcom GFA-555 se - Special Edition I gotta call bs on this whole post, it’s so non-specific. The only thing we can surmise from the above is that he hates Adcom and he can not type.There is a reason that Adcom sold 100,000 units of their 555 amp, which is the record, apparently. T... | |
| New Adcom GFA-555 se - Special Edition Nope, not made in China. I’ll resurrect this thread as after about 10 months I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the 555SE. It doesn’t get harsh or bright at higher volumes, images beautifully and just sounds effortless.the only downside for ... | |
| Current production Adcom amp. - GFA 6002 Speaking of which, I'm wondering if anyone else has tried the 6002 or one of the new Adcom amps. I've only tried them with some easy loads like Totem bookshelf speakers and some Pioneer towers.Just wondering what the consensus is? | |
| Recommended Preamp for pairing an Adcom 555II Amp and Theil CS 3.5 speakers Hey don, I'm from Canada too. I have bought a great deal by ordering from American dealers and have it shipped to US border towns then go down and pick it up. I'm guessing that you live too far from the border to make this feasible.Audiogon is a... | |
| Audioquest Rocket series That's odd. In the last year I've acquired Rocket 44(biwire), NRG-4 power cables and some Sydney RCA interconnects. It's the best my system has ever sounded.So I wonder about Dustsailor's results. He never mentioned his system or speakers, mayb... |