bobpaule
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| Which adcom sounds best? I too had an Adcom, the GFA-7605 for about 1 month, "sterile and brittle" is spot on for an oversimplified description. IMHO they belong in distribution systems powering Bose and Cerwin-Wega speakers, nuf said.On the other hand I read some laudato... | |
| Any owners of the Classe CP-800 here ? You bet, the separate balanced topology preferrably monomoblock amps for stereo are the next logical purchase for me too, the biamping is holding me back (4xmonos=muchisimo dinero). | |
| Any owners of the Classe CP-800 here ? I do have thoughts, although I ended up getting the Canadian made CP-700 instead. Separate fully differentially balanced even in the PSU, all digital functions reduced to what is needed for volume control, such should a true preamp be. The rest is... | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? So I finally got my paws on a CP-700, integrated it with SSP Bypass biamping the fronts. Simply put, separate stereo XLR interconns from the PR-SC5509 (disabled the biwiring touted as "biamping" by Onkyo) and DVD-A1UDCI player, which, like the CP-... | |
| Amp repair...What to expect. I like the DYI spirit in several of the posts.Just last month I got tired of dropouts on my two Sherbourn 5/1500A monoblock construction amps, chatted with a friendly tech, ordered $2.50 relays, and using my Xtronic solder gun and air tool worksta... | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? Correction, i will not use XLR Y splitters, but rather single XLRs out of the processor with a line level bypass on the CP-700 and biamped XLRs out of it, much safer option! | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? I was in a similar situation until today, I needed something more than the PR-SC5509 to do justice to the MoFi and other stereo SACDs that my A1UDCI processes on a fully balanced stereo pathway. I needed a solid state fully balanced preamp with bi... | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? This guy direct compared them, and preferred the CP-700:http://www.psaudio.com/vanilla/discussion/4330/using-a-preamp-or-straight-into-a-poweramp.-what-are-the-preferable-specs | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? Starting with the CP-800 production moves to the Middle Kingdom, somewhere near the Oppo factories. | |
| New reference Marantz compared to McIntosh Late reply but here is how the D&M Holdings McIntosh cloning sequence goes:1. DVD-A1UDCI2. UD9004 (add beefier metal)3. MVP891 (add McIntosh logo, delete one HDMI)Any of these players should make a MCH SACD afficionado very happy, as currently... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations For the chronically depressed neurotic nerdy intellectual nothing will ever beat a Jungr, Barber, or Wilson :) | |
| Topnotch BluRay Concert..... Sting Live in Berlin A++++ everything, i decode sound in my A1UDCI (dedicated 6x AKM DACs, one per channel, Oppo you listenin?) with the HC9000 doing the video. Fan-friggin-tastic concert. | |
| New Oppo BDP-95 better than the McIntosh MVP-881? When you can get a refurb DVD-A1UDCI with AKM DACs for 2K and 1 yr warranty all else becomes obsolete, HDMI/DSD loses because most processors feature inferior to AKM DACs. Get it and invest in King Cobra interconnects:)MVP881 may be an expensive A... | |
| Classe ssp 600 vs 800 ? Hey Samski!The advantage of an SSP-800 is that by using a Lilliput 8" HDMI secondary monitor at the seating position (mine is mounted on the lamp) you can fire up your music and watch ID3 info on the secondary without the projector on, or having t... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Sherbourn 5/1500A. So good i got a second one, this way i can biwire my fronts in my Paradigm Ref. Studio v.2 complete 7.1 setup. |