kevinzoe
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| Hi-end CD 5-disk Changers? I was at a dealer yesterday that sold both Rotel and Marantz and said that since Marantz has been bought by Denon that the Marantz quality has declined. He told me that the Rotel multi-disk player would sound better than the Marantz and also has a... | |
| CAT SL1 Legend or First Sound? Boy, you have expensive tastes Mehdi!! I wish I had your dilema . . . I expect that you haven't had too many posts as most of us don't have either or both of your listed units to compare, but's just a guess on my part.Some Differences that you mig... | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners Brooksl - interesting note on voided tube warantee if non-VTL preamp is used . . . I spoke with Bea at VTL and her KT88 tube prices are not competitive with what I can get from a local Toronto supplier at www.conusaudio.com so I don't think tube w... | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners In case you were wondering, I bought an Audience PowerChord (4ft) for my First Sound preamp and an Audience AU24 interconnect between my Audio Aero CDP and First Sound and it all sound marvelous, especially when my VTL St-150 amp is in Tetrode mod... | |
| Hi-end CD 5-disk Changers? Thanks Michaelbr, MWilson, and Clbeanz for your respective info.I think the McIntosh may be out of my price league for now (after all it's a CD changer and the cash could be spent on upgrading my speakers instead) but the Sony, Rotel, Denon and Ma... | |
| Hi-end CD 5-disk Changers? Does anyone know if the Sony 333/555ES or the Marantz CC4300 or the McIntosh or the Rotel have detachable power cords? | |
| Hi-end CD 5-disk Changers? Thanks everyone for your input thus far. Noisy and ergonomically friendly are in fact 2 important wife acceptance factors and for me too. I didn't know that the McIntosh was noisy and certainly pricy too. Perhaps the Sony 333/555ES used or Rotel o... | |
| Comparison of Tube Output CD Players Hi all,The first generation of the Prima CD did have a volume control so you could connect it directly to your power amp. However the subsequent and latest version of it (which is I guess a MKII version but they don't use this nomenclature to acco... | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners THANKS all for your insight thus far. Despite a secondary thread begining to develop here about tube replacements, I think the concensus to my posted question is to forget using a line conditioner with the FS preamp. On a related note, I was speak... | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners Audiofankj -- You mention that the biggest improvement was with the tube rolling to NOS Siemens 7308 gold pin tubes. Where did you purchase them as I hear they're scarce?Thanks,Kevin | |
| Calling all First Sound Preamp Owners Thank you all for your responses. I like the idea of starting with the stock cord and tubes so as to establish a "baseline" of sound for the unit before monkeying around with power cords / line conditioners. So the concensus is don't use a line co... | |
| Elite Preamps--Electon Images, Messenger, Tube Res Mes -- thanks for the update on the Messenger preamp. Thanks too for the EMM Labs heads-up but as it's for 6-channel and that isn't my need at the moment I'll forgoe this and look instead at preamps from Aesthetix Calypso, First Sound Presence Del... | |
| Elite Preamps--Electon Images, Messenger, Tube Res Nicky -- thanks for your thoughts. Do you know where I can find info on the Messenger (e.g. website, reviews etc.)?canook@aol.com -- nice sense of humour.Kevin | |
| Elite Preamps--Electon Images, Messenger, Tube Res Thanks Albert & Brian for your responses.Albert - "stunning offerings from well known companies with excellent customer service" are all buying criteria for me so that buyer risk is reduced and when it comes time to sell the piece it can be do... | |
| Tube preamp for phono and headphone use. The Sonic Frontier Line stages, while no longer in production, have a headphone jack - not sure about phonestage though . . .The McIntosh tube preamp (forgot the model #) also has a headphone jack but not the std. 1/4" jack . . .By the way, what h... |