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| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear The Mc452 is rated highly by serious reviewers. Here's an interesting amp shootout of 41 amps where McIntosh does well. http://www.amp-shootout.com/2.html | |
| Maggie Disappointment I you can't bring the 1.7's to your room, could you take your amplification to their room? It doesn't remove all doubts, but a common disappointment with Maggies is that the home amp just isn't the right match compared to what the dealer uses. | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state Amazon. Resistance is futile. $35 each. | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state Audiolabyrinth, I'm not a big tube roller, so my perception may be narrow compared to others. The Gold Lions replaced TungSol's in the line stage of the original VAC Avatar. I had been sniffing around the McIntosh offerings and noticed a pattern o... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? Apologies if this is just too far off your initial inquiry, but maybe the amp/pre are fine. For $1500 you could have a really good front end--Used Windows laptop ($300-$400,) jRiver software (on sale today for $44.98,) Wireworld Starlight USB cabl... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state Audiolabyrinth, thanks (I think.) This is one of the joys of tubes for an audiophile...anticipation and interaction, without breaking the bank or going snake oil. I can look forward to hearing the Mullards, and there's three 12AU7 tubes in the cir... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state I just put two Gold Lion 12AX7's (reissue) in my modest Vac Avatar and spent the weekend basking in the sound they brought to album after album, revealing new attributes and making the performance glow with life. A $70 exercise, in the direct sign... | |
| Greatest Children musicians of all times Just read the new Jerry Lee Lewis bio, and it's remarkable that Jerry Lee, Jerry Falwell, and Mickey Gilley all came from the same small Louisiana town, at the same time, were all gifted piano players, and Jerry Lee could easily be called a prodig... | |
| Polling Magnepan Users - Room Size In my limited experience, dipoles have sounded better when placed in front of the long wall of the room. | |
| Audiophile Fakery Hey, maybe bumping the low end just makes the device sound more powerful, and Krell's allusion to the movie's massive power plant creates an expectation of....nah. | |
| In defense of ABX testing Granted, sighted tests produce false positives, but I would posit that stereo equipment exists to create pleasure in the brain, much like the role of cigarettes. This pleasure can be difficult to capture in the conscious mind, and does not lend it... | |
| My Triton Ones are being delivered to me tomorrow I assume Schubert has not bought a mobile phone, and would not express his values on a computer keyboard. | |
| Magic and mystery of master tape So, as more high-res albums are offered for download, there seems to be a question regarding how high the resolution of the source can ever be. If master analog tapes were archived digitally, what was that resolution? Where's the weakest link in t... | |
| Magic and mystery of master tape How long do master tapes last? Doesn't oxidation cause deterioration? Are there still master tapes for classic albums of the 60s that can source DSD? | |
| How good are recievers these days? Re:Clutter. I still wonder, "If you do not have phono equalization and moving coil signal boost, what are all those preamp components doing in big preamps, since the incoming signal doesn't really need improving?" Attenuation, yes, but do active c... |