marakanetz
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| cd burning speed If you dip it into the 99%alcohol you'll burn it much faster:-) | |
| Tube gear under $2k? Quickies will provide for you a neccessary drive you need for your room. Replace stock EL34 with KT90 and you've already got 90W/ch!Quicksilver separates might align with Stingray if properly matched but with more power. They're excellent in jazz,... | |
| Help Please: What Cartridge? If you're not going to get separate phono or step-up transformer than you'd better consider cartridges above 0.8mV Benz M2 must be a perfect match to both: your built-in phono(if you have MC) and your future turntable. | |
| CD getting as good as LPs - recommendations There are following label that have great quality but unfortunately not like vinyl:CMP even early ones sound great, Concord Jazz, ECM, Nonesuch... Make sure to get original and non-club versions.Also some of the experimental and small record compa... | |
| Tube gear under $2k? For $2k you can get Quicksilver separates. Quickies have one of the most reliable and affordable tube gear. M60 the large ones with AE3 tube preamp will bring you to the heaven for near $1.5k | |
| More bang for the buck? VTL MB180 bangs a-bit better. | |
| Which speakers do you like in the $5K price range? Avantgarde Uno for $5k used???? | |
| Advice on Totem model ones Model 1's are very poor match to ...'Complete system but with more powerfull amp able to deliver substantially fuller and deeper sound and imaging than Paradigms.For the large room you'll probably need a sub but mostly Model 1 is designed for the ... | |
| What CD titles to get from BMG???? BMG remanufactures CDs and so making them worse than some CD-R copies.They have an originals in catalogue but they never specify and you never know what you're getting from them. | |
| Speaker match for Plinius 8200 Mk II Totem Forest despite being only two way but weigh 100lB per pair and dive onto 20Hz at ease with -3db. and to 26Hz flat.They're great for medium and small size rooms.Dynaaudio 1.3 or 1.8 might also match your quest. | |
| preamp to mate with McCormack DNA 1 ...to my simple philosophy about breakin'-in i'd say that $hit will never become a flower within the time and there are ONLY small changes occur during that period. much more larger proccesses occur with human psychological and audiable adoptation... | |
| preamp to mate with McCormack DNA 1 4yanx, to be more precies I'd say it might or might not take a long time to break-in. Theoretically inside the trans there is a large deal of reactive interfearance between isolation wires and core that might not sound right firstly but will event... | |
| Plinius 8200 MkII -- best integrated ss amp? I don't know if your speakers are bi-wirable, but you can get matching 8200P and biamp! Becides 8200 works in pretty large margin of class A(upto 15W before switching to B) you can double that pleasure! | |
| preamp to mate with McCormack DNA 1 4yanx, I feel that you'll sell your Kora before bent breaks-in(might take some time for transformer)...Keep us posted | |
| What does "Sounds too Hifi" mean??? ...it's when you don't know how to describe precisely or more specific or haven't enough vocabulary or combination of all above you can say instead: "HiFi", "NotHiFi", "NotTooHiFi" and "TooHiFi"... |