cal3713
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| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Well, I guess I'm going to try out a McIntosh 402. Double the watts from my Pass and it'll still double down as the impedance drops. It was used by the previous owners of my 2.4s. Unless I just adore it, I'll probably still try to pick up a X250.5... | |
| Transport for PS Audio PW DAC Am I right in assuming that the MKII upgrade has very little effect on bridge playback? If I go the music server route I could either stream over usb or use the bridge (which I don't currently have), so I don't think I would upgrade both. Since yo... | |
| Transport for PS Audio PW DAC Yeah, I'm torn. I could also just give up on disks and start burning everything to a hard-drive. Of course I only have a laptop without a CD drive, so I still have to pay even to start that monstrous project.Really the only thing that makes me con... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Still wish Stevecham and I could just switch to see what each other's amp sounds like. I do find it difficult to consider the Pass Labs XA-30.5 to be "poor quality power"... but would love to try the CJ amp without risk. Ohh well, trial and error ... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Interesting action over hear folks. Thanks for all the comments. I almost bought the last 250.5 that was on here, but it was in Canada and I didn't want to pay to import it... so I'm still considering the other options. | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Yeah, I wish I could go higher in the XA line. The 60.5s are kind of in the zone, although even getting the funds for that purchase would require living with the 30.5 for a couple more years. Although Renohifi suggested that that could be a soluti... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Unsound, sorry, but can you elaborate on how knowing that the Pass is a 15 amp draw will help me? | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s It's a funny world out there... wish we could all just take disks/equipment over to each other's house to examine the true state of affairs. Even since I made this thread, my INT-30A has kept improving (I'm about a month into ownership but leave i... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s This commentary regarding power supplies made me start wondering about my house's (rather poor) electrical situation. I'm in a short term (2 year) rental of a house built around 1940 and much of the house is on the same circuit as my electronics (... | |
| rega P5 with dynavector 10x5..which phono? For education purposes, any comments on why the simaudio lp3 is a poor match? | |
| rega P5 with dynavector 10x5..which phono? To be honest, I primarily listen to imaging, and am not sure I've heard enough other phono's to make good comparisons on those dimensions. In comparing to my digital, I certainly think the sound is well balanced, the highs are softer and bit less ... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s The Pass INT-30A certainly makes absolutely stunning music on the Thiels... but only with certain types of content. | |
| rega P5 with dynavector 10x5..which phono? I have a P3-24 with the same cartridge... Thiel 2.4s and a Pass Labs INT-30A, and have tried three different phonos. One was the Phono board in my Classe-CAP151 integrated (used just as a pre-amp), the second was the PS audio GCPH, and the third (... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Nope, haven't started to look through the options to learn their lineup yet... but I'll take a look. Any particular models you're a fan of? At one point I was considering Mark Levinson, but the reliability complaints and all the posts about gettin... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Stevecham, as Unsound pointed out I do find it surprising that you're getting enough out of the CJ. I'm certainly not in a big room (or a small one for that matter), but my current Pass (the INT-30A... which gives 60 W of class A power into 4 ohms... |