hudsonhawk
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| Bel Canto and Wyred monos Thanks Jim, that's incredibly useful.I'm currently deciding if I will stick with the separates route (in which case I'd most likely get the Wyred) or get an integrated like the Hegel H100.Unsound, that's fair, though I will say I'm not the first p... | |
| Bel Canto and Wyred monos Are you questioning me describing the Mccormack that way, or my use of the common and widely understood trope "tube-like" to describe a warm sounding transistor amp? Or just derailing the honest attempt at soliciting feedback for the heck of it? | |
| Bel Canto and Wyred monos I'm also intrigued by the Job 225, though I'm concerned it won't have enough juice for the Martin Logan ESL's. Does anyone have any thoughts on the Jobs, vis-a-vis how they comapre to the Bel Cantos in particular? | |
| Bel Canto and Wyred monos Soix,My buddy said the exact same thing. The thing is I really like my rack (a Sanus JVF65) and it also doubles as my plasma mount (as pictured here: http://www.sanus.com/en_US/products/furniture/jfv65/) so the switching cost would probably be pre... | |
| Sadly missed manufacturers Spica and Snell would be my 2 picks. | |
| Are marantz ma500 monoblocks better than an adcom? I used to have the MA500's. They're good for the money, and a really fun conversation starter and form factor.But as an amp, they're great for home theater, punchy and powerful, but I didn't find them satisfyingly musical. I replaced them with a s... | |
| Sleeper preamps: $500 new/used Arcam Alpha 9 preamp is exactly what you're looking for. | |
| Help me select a new remote preamp on a budget That PS Audio looks great and much more in my price range than the GCP. Sadly I just realized that the BAT is too wide for my rack. Its a Sonus rack that happens to be exactly 19" wide, so fatties like the BAT stuff or the McCormack I just bought ... | |
| Help me select a new remote preamp on a budget Great suggestions all.I was just looking at a BAT and trying to decide if I (ok, if the wife) could live without the Harmony selecting the input for me... I sometimes wish I'd gotten a BAT VK-200 instead of the McCormack - an all BAT system for un... | |
| Are planar speakers less prone to room interaction Thanks for the interesting ideas. I like the idea of the Maggie 1.6's, though my main concern is that I can only move them out 3.5 feet or so from the wall. Hopefully that would be enough.One thing I like about the Maggies is that there are matchi... | |
| Are planar speakers less prone to room interaction Thanks all for your fantastic and detailed responses.Jwpstayman: It's more the asymmetry that is disturbing to the ear. Immediately to the left of the listener's location you have the windows, whereas to the right you have the empty space where th... | |
| Blu Ray connectability HDMI / Component You can still get an HD picture out of component, but there's the risk that at some point in the future, movie studios might start enforcing the ICT, which is a silly anti-piracy measure limiting output over component to 960x540, basically an EDTV... | |
| Digital downloads better than redbook audio? Sorry, but the public's standards are moving in the opposite direction. Look at the quality of your average stereo in the 70's and 80's versus now - more and more people are using $100 iPod docks as their primary stereos, or computer speakers, or ... | |
| OPPO vs BR HD? Tiger, what's the music format you're talking about? | |
| Surround mode or Stereo mode for Super Bowl? It will almost certainly be broadcast in Dolby Digital on the high-definition feed. That's what I would use if I were watching the game at home... |