peter_s
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| VTL MB450 monos Vs. BAT VK 60se monos? Wow Ejlif! I am really surprised. I had the JC-1's and the MB450's in the same system for a while (Maggie 20.1's as well as Gallo Ref 3.1's), and to my taste the VTL's put meat on the music whereas the JC-1's sounded pretty flat and uninteresting.... | |
| Which Sub. Rel B-1 or Fathom F-113 Frank, are you using rolling off the signal to your main speakers with a high pass, or are you just running the mains full spectrum? Thanks, Peter | |
| How do I build the best room Hi Kevin,It's great that you are designing a room from scratch! If you use dipoles, you may want to consider diffusion behind them. I've spent a good amount of time with dipoles in a room 14.5x18x11 (slanted ceiling from 8 to 14 feet), and you wil... | |
| best amp to drive Gallo 3.1's? They like alot of power. I didn't like them too much with a Parasound JC-1, but they sounded pretty good with VTL 450's. | |
| Which amp to Bi-amp my Maggie 20.1 While I am in the process of selling my 20.1's due to a room too small, I tried a lot of amps, and my experience (and that of Bea at VTL) is to use the more powerful amp for the mids/highs. That is where you really want to get the sharpest dynamic... | |
| Avalon Indra vs Sonus Faber Cremona M By the way, I agree with the guys above. While I love the Indra, I would certainly bring your source up to the quality of the rest of your system... | |
| Avalon Indra vs Sonus Faber Cremona M Hi Bobby,I just brought a pair of Indras into my system. I love these speakers - they are wonderful at soundstaging and they are great at reproducing inner detail. My listening room was just too small for my prior speakers - Magnepan 20.1's, which... | |
| Parasound JC-1 vs Pass Labs 250.5 Personally, I've owned the JC-1's and heard them in audio stores, and I find them to be generally uninvolving and flat on the "involving scale". I would look elsewhere. Pass is proabably good. What about some of the big Plinius amps? | |
| B & W 800D I think it's a great sounding speaker. I heard it in a showroom with Classe amplification. Very enjoyable to listen to. I haven't heard anything with the diamond tweeter that I haven't liked so far (Avalon, Kharma...). I get the impression that it... | |
| Parasound JC-1 power amplifier I had a pair of JC-1's - used them on the top and bottom ends of Maggie 20.1's and on Gallo Reference 3.1's. I sold them. My experience was that the JC-1's seemed pretty flat - lifeless and uninvolving. Maybe I'm just a tube kind of guy, but my VT... | |
| CD or even Universal player with 2ch Digital IN ? Ckoffend - quite a lineage of CD players you've had there. Can you provide your impressions gleaned during this evolution? Thanks, Peter | |
| power cord for electrostatic speaker I was surprised to hear a positive improvement on my Quad 988's. I think it's worth a try.Best, Peter | |
| What is a good amp to pair with Hovland HP-100 PS Rickk - I think you're working in reverse order here. I think you should decide what speakers you like, then what amp works best with them, and finally choose the preamp. The preamp makes a huge difference, but I wouldn't recommend locking your... | |
| What is a good amp to pair with Hovland HP-100 I have the Hovland, and am enjoying it with VTL MB-450 monoblocks. Here is some information from a Stereophile review what may be useful regarding impedence matching:"The Hovlands line stage didnt invert absolute polarity. Its input impedance wa... | |
| Squeezebox interfacing??? So, with a NAS HD, do you need to have a computer involved at all, for running Slim Server? Or could you just listen to music using your remote control with the Squeezebox, and having it access its music from the NAS HD?I have several computers in... |