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| System advice The 2ce's should be able to give you that Live in Your Living Room sensation, no problem. I strongly preferred mine with tube gear. In the Chicago area, you ought to be able to find some different integrateds to try out. I think appropriate tube g... | |
| BAT VK75 vs. BAT VK75SE - which is more euphonic? Thanks for everyones' comments.Nolitan, do you recall if you were listening to the VK75SE or the VK75 with the M30's. Do you own the M30's? If so, what do you like?At this point in my listening life, for whatever reason, what seems "too warm" for ... | |
| Who do you like for equipment mods? Steve Huntley at Great Northern Sound has done great work for me on Wadia and ARC gear. (He used to work for both.) He's doing an upgrade on a Rhea for me now, and I intend to have him work on my EAR 834P eventually. | |
| DIY Record Cleaning Solution Markd51, or anyone else on the thread - Does anyone know what VPI is using in its fluid now?I just bought my second VPI 16.5...My first VPI, the original 1983 design, finally gave up the ghost. I didn't use it from about '90 - '07, then started us... | |
| Who's spent time with the Cary CAD 120 S amp? No responses? Hmm. Well, I can answer my own question now, because I heard one, on my own speakers (Harbeth M30's). Played in triode mode only, and compared to a BAT VK75SE. Warmer and "tubier" than the BAT, with a softer top, but a little lacking... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Phd - Why is it so hard for us (or some of us, anyway) to learn the lesson, as you say: "don't let people push you into what they consider acceptable high end gear"? It's so easy, even after years of experience that should leave one smarter, to fa... | |
| Experience bringing older gear up to date ARC, CJ Rgurney - Thanks - questions: How do you like the sound, compared to more current models (to the extent you've compared), and how is reliability? | |
| Experience bringing older gear up to date ARC, CJ Chuck, thank you. I've worked with GNSC (and Steve Huntley is excellent), and I'm now working with Bill Thalmann, but all of this has been on (relatively) newer gear. The only pre-90's piece I'm working with is an ARC SP8, which is still in proces... | |
| New Re-Issue Vinyl: Surface Noise, Ticks, Pops.... I think it must depend somewhat on what one buys. I mostly buy classical, and have had very good luck with the European pressings from Speakers Corner. Out of about 30, I sent two back. My luck was not as good with Classic Records--out of about 20... | |
| CDPs for full orchestra Twoleftears - Here's from another serious orchestral music listener, CDs and Lps. I agree with a lot that's been said--it depends upon recording, mastering quality, etc. Frankly, I finally got so annoyed at the sound of orchestral CDs in general (... | |
| Mono Cartridge, is it worth the investment? Slowhand - I appreciate your developing interest...I'm noticing the same thing as I get back into Lps. Those old 50's mono records sometimes sound really nice. But what a pain to collect! Finding them in decent condition, cleaning them, etc., and ... | |
| Bookshelf speakers and complex/orchestra Autodexr - As everyone above describes, you're in the land of "the hardest thing to do right" when you're talking about reproduction of complex orchestral passages. Everything contributes (or takes away) from that aspect of recording reproduction.... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Halcro, tell us the speakers that sound like music (and take up less than one hand).Wireless200 - As reported (I think), I just bought a 2nd hand Mac 2200 pre-amp so I could get tone controls and, I hope, a decent, non-bright sound. Any hope? What... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Glenn-Garza: A year or two ago, I went on "the great speaker hunt," which involved listening to speakers at various audio stores within 250 miles of where I live. I was quite surprised at the number of systems that I heard that, to me, sounded upl... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Okay, so what pre-amps of note out there have tone controls? Some McIntosh do. I snagged a 2nd hand c2200 very recently (don't even have it yet), but have been somewhat pained to note that it seems to have gotten mixed reviews among the Audiogon c... |