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| Speaker help - short list needed Sorry, I should have also mentioned room size being important. If your room is medium to large, check out the link below. For a full, rich sounding speaker, these will be hard to beat for the price. The main rap on these was with the bass response... | |
| pre vs amp power cable question In short, the answer to your question is "yes."Of course the "necessary" gauge of the power cord is related to the required current draw, thatÂ’s why 30 amp circuits require a larger minimum sized wire (10awg) than 15 amp circuits (14awg). My amps ... | |
| Speaker help - short list needed Some basic information such as what you will power them with, whether you prefer floor standers or monitors, and what types of music you enjoy may help posters zero in on your best options. | |
| McCormack DNA 500 or Cary CAD MB 500? I tried both. Single-ended sounded just fine. Let us know how you like them. | |
| Anyone heard the new Cary SA-500.1 Monoblocks? Since my June post, I have received my upgraded Clayton M300 amps and they are outstanding. Totally quiet, they improve on the earlier version in dynamics, bass depth and slam, and dimensionality, none of which were weaknesses with the original ve... | |
| McCormack DNA 500 or Cary CAD MB 500? http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1317822901&/Cary-CAD-500-mb-Gorgoeus-(see- | |
| McCormack DNA 500 or Cary CAD MB 500? IME they should both easily have the juice to drive your 86dB Salons, assuming they have a somewhat uniform impedance vs. frequency, and don't dip much below 4ohms. My McCormack drove 87 and 90 dB speakers but I only had the higher 90dB speakers w... | |
| McCormack DNA 500 or Cary CAD MB 500? I have owned both and either will work fine. Cary is a little warmer-full bodied, McCormack may have more slam and may be a touch quieter. Both are great options at the used price. Other considerations are single stereo amp vs. monoblocks, and the... | |
| Is preamp remote volume a deal breaker for you? I agree the Alps is crap. I had it on a $10k preamp and it just made the whole thing suck. The DACT on my TEAD sounds great. I actually like setting volume then leaving it alone for a given listening circumstance. If I want quiet I just pause or s... | |
| Number of yrs. to reach the finished line? Frankly I found it quite boring at the end. Time to conquer something new.Well said. Unfortunately, to get to that point requires a journey. I am glad you found your sweet spot, mine came with the Clayton M300's and Tom Evans Vibe/Pulse II combo. ... | |
| DVD-A player - while they still exist The new Oppo and the Ayre listed above are good choices. You should look at the upgrades offered for the Oppo on the Modwright website. Another good choice is either of the two players currently offered by MUSE, a company with a long track record ... | |
| Is there a cable maven in the house? Just get the Jensens which have high quality transformers in them and which sound excellent by doing nothing wrong. The PC unit listed above converts "Pro" +4dBu signals to "Consumer" -10dBV signals. I am not sure that is what you would want. I su... | |
| Number of yrs. to reach the finished line? Gotta say, I have no current plans for major changes. I have owned the Aerial 9's for about 5 years, Lector for 3 yrs. and Tom Evans Vibe/Pulse for 3 years (off and on - I have owned several of them). I have only had my Clayton amps about a year, ... | |
| Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player when it does not seem that way is when I will make a move to hard drive based storage, or possibly cloud based hi-rez stream and playI agree with Grannyring and Pubul57. For now I am actually going back and forth between two excellent players, one... | |
| Anyone heard the new Cary SA-500.1 Monoblocks? Stan, I looked very hard at the 500.1's and ultimately decided to upgrade my Clayton's instead. I might have been swayed if there had been more information out there about the 500.1's but they are quite new. I understand there may be a pair curren... |