rcprince
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| Full range box floorstanding recommend $3-5K range In that range there are a lot of good choices for you to consider, and I'm sure you'll get a lot of responses. If you have the room for them, I'd suggest Dunlavy SC-IVAs; I think they'd work well with your amplification and they are excellent, ful... | |
| How many AudiogoNers are amateur chefs? Having just drained my home's equity into a new kitchen, I have shocked my wife by telling her I want to learn how to cook more than hot dogs and steak, so at some point soon I'll be an amateur chef as well. | |
| Yet another SACD question My understanding at present is that all multichannel SACDs also have a two-channel SACD stereo mix layer that plays conventional stereo; I don't know how you get a multi-channel player to play that layer, but I'm sure it can be done. | |
| Money no object,,,,which speakers would you own??? Looks--Sonus Faber Amati Homage; I'm sure these must sound great too, but I've never heard them sound good, due to poor dealer setup.Sound--Like Meech 33, Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams; when properly set up they have the soundstaging, bass extens... | |
| Has anybody else tried LITZ wire for speakers? I know that Audio Research used to, and maybe still does, sell a litz-based speaker cable. My speaker cables are made by a company called K-Works, a small one-man shop who's a member of our audio society here in NJ, and they too are a litz wire ba... | |
| ARC LS-5 vs SP-10/11 for Plinius SA-102 tgm: Don't fall in the "newer is better" trap that the manufacturers and mags would like you to believe. My Jadis preamp is from 1995, my Jadis amps from 1990 and I'd stack them up against anything out there. While there have been improvements in ... | |
| SACD - what gives? Definitely try the Vaughn Williams Sea Symphony (I'd have preferred a different VW symphony, although this one is growing on me) with the Atlanta Symphony and chorus conducted by Spano, whose work I like a lot and who I wish was available for our ... | |
| ARC LS-5 vs SP-10/11 for Plinius SA-102 Having heard all three in familiar circumstances, I think the LS-5 would be my choice, given that you don't need a phono section. The LS-5 seems to my ears to balance the glorious classic tube sound of the SP-10 with the accuracy of the cooler, mo... | |
| SACD - what gives? Agree, Detlof, you're always welcome here as well, it's not that long a flight (although there are many things I prefer about your side of the pond). The Audio Logic DAC also changes the pcm signal to DSD, that's why I like it so much. At some poi... | |
| SACD - what gives? Eldartford is pretty much right, but part of the problem also is that some of those master tapes weren't so great to begin with, particularly with some labels who seemed to like to put mikes in musicians' laps or which had producers who wanted a "... | |
| SACD - what gives? I join Mgottlieb and Tbone and the few others in the minority here who are still enthused about SACD. I find little of the high frequency problems Detlof has found, although I would have to say my system cannot be as revealing in that area as his ... | |
| Polk SDA SRS 2.3 Speakers: Any thoughts on them? I never liked the Polk SDA speakers on the numerous occasions when I heard them at a local dealer, they were always "dark", muddy sounding and too thick in the bass. I know some members here have gotten them to sing (you might check the best speak... | |
| Can you warm up your tube amp ... I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure Philojet and Jfrech are right. Last night one of my speaker wires was disconnected from my Jadis amp (cleaning woman) and the amp started buzzing loudly--fortunately caught it right away to avoid any damage. You'... | |
| What's a good step-up transformer? The best one I have had is the one built into my Lamm LP2, which gives me 57db of dead-quiet gain and is sufficient to handle a Koetsu Rosewood Platinum Signature, which is pretty low output. In the past I've had both a Koetsu, which is well-regar... | |
| Where does that hiss on the master come from? Are you talking about analog tape hiss? Common from the early days of stereo (listen to any Mercury Living Presence record or CD and you'll hear it), and an "evil" of analog tape vs. digital tape (one of the aspects of digital recording that many ... |