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| Digital Front End: Critical Listening Hmm. Sjh32 it would seem a USB fed buffer (or IEEE1394 or similar async bus) would be the next logical step for the Levinson DAC, IMNSHO. A USB interface could, in theory, offer better performance for the same or less money. But it's all speculati... | |
| Help this budding Classical audiophile Agreed. use the library. Lots to choose from there. | |
| Wharfedale Emerald 97 - compare to? yeah, the wharfes were pretty boxy sounding. | |
| Best Downgrades you've done Eosone RSF-600s to Wharfedale Emerald 97s. Paid about $500/demo at Best buy to $200/new+shipping at uBid. I no longer have either set of speaker though. Everything else I've bought cost more than what it replaced. | |
| Wharfedale Emerald 97 - compare to? As a former wharfedale owner, I echo the comments here. I had a pair of emerald 97s about two years ago (two speakers ago). Mine were finished in walnut veneer. I paid under $200 from ubid.com. I think the retail prices are inflated, but for the p... | |
| Seperates or Receiver on a Budget I would still do separates with a budget of $1k or less - let alone $2k. No question, not an option. Unless you get something that works well together like a NAD receiver and spendor speakers. I lot of it has to do with the amplifier sections. Plu... | |
| Digital or Coax? Cpatbay, don't you mean TOSLink and not just plain optical? When I think optical I still think AT&T glass. Even if AT&T glass isn't widely used anymore. | |
| I have a confession to make I would hope he is including is home and cars (and maybe education) in that debt total. | |
| 2 channel movie lstening;is it worth the sacrafice another vote for 2 channel home theather. yeah, multichannel is much more immersive, but it depends on what your priorities are. It's much more cost effective to do high end 2 channel with video graphed on, than anything else. Plus you get two *gr... | |
| Nora Jones new CD -- Copy Protection -- YIKES Budrew, I imagine they will use DRM or similar playback restriction technology. | |
| Best Inexpensive DAC The EVS millenniums will destroy the msb links. | |
| Speakers to Mate with McCormack? Magnepan 1.6. a friend has this combo and loves it. | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? Aiwa XC-30M in 1999. that was my first standalone CD player. Before that I had two different 'boom boxes' in the early and mid 90's. Oh yeah, also had one of the Sony discmans. I got that in '94 IIRC. Just sold the Aiwa this past week. *Sniff* I h... | |
| TV Recommendations I would get both a TV and a projector. Spend about 500 for a nice 27 or 32 inch direct view CRT, then spend the balance on a $1k digital projector, screen, and cables. Check out the sub-$3500 digital projector forum at AVS. I would do that and ski... | |
| Speakers that work in a medium room to match Krell My armchair quarterback reply would be the Wilson Sophias. But if it were me, I'd look at something like a Vandersteen 3A Sig (or it's replacement). Or of it really was me, I'd look at a pair of Magnepan 3.6/R or 20.1 (push/pull) and pull then out... |