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| Pioneer Elite vs. Pioneer "Standard" Kuro Plasmas I agree I had a 8 month old Elite Kuro and bought the KRP-600m and it blew me away. Picture was at least 30% better than the elite. | |
| Concert Fidelity audition program Have you compared the Concert Fidelity to Audio Research REF 5 or the best VAC preamps. | |
| CES in Las Vegas By the way CES last year had the best sound I ever heard at any trade show. Almost every room sounded good in the Venetian. | |
| Better Sound Oppo BDP-83 or Elite BDP-05FD? I bought the Pioneer O5FD new last year. Its a wonderful player. I replaced it with the Oppo. The Oppo's picture is better on blue ray (sharper) and has a better upscaler than the Pioneer for normal DVD's. In fact it is even better than my Toshiba... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier Electrostatic I bet you did not try the best VAC or Aesthetix Preamp | |
| Soulution 710 Amplifier and 720 Preamplifier I'll take Tubes over the best solid state any time. | |
| Audio Research Ref 5 preamp I would not mind an audition as well. I'll pay shipping both ways and pay 100.00 for letting me listen to the REF 5. | |
| Looking For Neutral Tube Amp Recommendation I think the answer to you question is the VAC 300.1 extremely musical but very great low level detail. | |
| ASR Basis Exclusive or Audia Flight Phono I would buy the Io Signature phono stage with dual power supplies instead of both of those. | |
| Audio Research Ref 5 preamp I would love to do a shoot out between the REF 5 and the best VAC preamp | |
| Magico V2? I agree I also liked the V2 at CES. I thought this sounded way more musical than there bigger sibling. This is one speaker that finally approaches the musicality of the ESP Concert Grand. | |
| Shuguang Treasure tubes.... I am placing the tubes in this order from left to right. Sylvania RCA Sylvania RCA. All this is relative. If I say I like a certain Digital Cable or analog cable and compared them to lots of other cables; remember this is my system. What works her... | |
| Shuguang Treasure tubes.... We are talking about the VAC amp here not Assemblage. I tried the Chinese and the ones I mentioned are way better. | |
| Shuguang Treasure tubes.... I just tried mixing Sylvania 6SN7GTB Chrome Top Yellow Label with RCA 6SN7GTB Black Plate Red Base Bottom D Getter Orange Label tubes in the VAC amp and the sound blew me away. You get the best of both worlds. You get the warmth of the RCA's and t... | |
| What to put under my VAC AMP/ PREAMP?? I think it also has to do with your source. If ones cd dac or phono source is thinner or fuller they may like one mode versus the other. I do like ultralinear too but I get more involved with the music in triode. Its nice to have the choice. |