celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| Speaker Advice? You are tossing a great speaker, but I understand. Don't know your budget, but the Harbeth HL5 with front port may be considered. Or, Merlin monitors with no port. The Merlin floor standers are also front ported. | |
| Need Advice on a Low End CD Player Giant Killer First off, the term "Giant Killer" is so over used it has lost most of it's meaning. You get what you pay for......mostly. Secondly, I've never heard a multi-disc player even match a decent single-disc player, so let's slide that off of the table.... | |
| A visit to the 2015 California Audio Show Cooper52,You have correctly identified many of the aspects of an audio show: exhilaration, confusion, doubt, awe and disappointment. It's like a first date. The rooms really can be dreadful and sometimes impossible to function in. Some of the simp... | |
| Audio Rack Opinions Quadraspire Sunoko Vent. Spent years with Target convinced they were very good........... for their time they were, but the Quadraspire is so superior controlling the bass, so much better at opening up the midrange and highs. These racks are also ... | |
| Naim UnitiServe - is it as good as a good CDP?? I'm in agreement with Krellman7. I own the UnitiServe and while I cannot claim it to be the ultimate server, it is my first one, it is very good to my ears and far fewer pieces than the Mini-Mac requires. I delved into the Mojo from Albuquerque, b... | |
| preamp/amp or integrated? That is the question Sugden A21 SE integrated. This piece is voiced well enough for symphonies as the Class A amp tends a bit toward tube-like smoothness. Being all solid state though, it carries the bite and attack of blues and rock well. It is really really fast. At... | |
| 300 budget Luxman R-1050. Excellent phono section, very good pre/power sections. Will best the Onkyo and NAD stuff. If you go with any integrated with pre-out/power-in then Chrshanl37 is correct about the jumpers. Big difference. | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers Lindisfarne is absolutely correct. Lots of really good power otherwise you are wasting your time and lots of money. I've not listened to this exact model, but have listened to much of the line and it is quite consistent with needing very exacting ... | |
| Is 50 wpc SS NAD enough to power Spendor SP1? The Germans have a great word for that.......jain. Yes and no. Drive yes, will you fall in love with the sound, no. These speakers really like very heavy stable current. You throw something really solid behind them and they wake up and show you th... | |
| REGEN by UPTONE AUDIO I'll preface this with an apology if wrong, but this seems rife with infomercial. | |
| Son needs a 2 channel amp cheap From the 80s: NAD 3020, Rotel, Luxman, Yamaha all with phono. | |
| Lars had a stroke. Another reminder that tomorrow and your health are never guaranteed. I'm twenty years in the medical field and it is absolutely frightening how many suffer a stunning early disability and/or demise. That trip you've been thinking about to the Lake... | |
| Transcendent Sound Grounded Grid Preamp upgrade Thank you for your insightful remarks. | |
| Connecting amp to vintage speakers This is where Mapleshade speaker wires are terrific. They sound good and of course their small awg works without any modification. If you are not in love with the 14 gauge wire you have, that is your solution. | |
| Is Quad an upgrade from Rotel? Hummmm..... Quad makes both SS and tube gear, so the question is quite ill- defined. The SS Quad gear is very British with a laid back presentation, not particularly 3- dimensional and oft times rolled off top end. Some would say polite. The tube ... |