rcprince
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| Best SACD player under $1500? A used Sony SCD-777ES. Decent sound, best transport mechanism, easy to mod for better performance when you have the cash for that. The best Marantz models may sound better, but are out of the price range you're talking about. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? Jadis JP80MC preamp stopped me from upgrading for over 10 years, and then the replacement was the next model up in the line, the JP200MC preamp, which I don't believe I'll ever give up till I start losing my hearing completely. Same can be said fo... | |
| Watt/Puppy 7 or Sophia? I'm interested in hearing how you like the Temptations vs. the Wilsons. I like them better than the WP7, and in most respects better than the Maxx2s, though they can't get the deepest bass as well, because they convey the music and the recording b... | |
| power for Thiel 3.5's I'll relate that I listened to a pair of Thiel CS3.5s at Innovative Audio with the Krell KSA 80 amp I wound up buying for my Duntechs about 15 years ago. I thought it sounded fine, and I knew for my Duntechs a solid-state amp was what I wanted. As... | |
| Can metal chassis become defective? I Joe, thanks for the kind thoughts. I wanted very nuch to go and meet some of the Philadelphia members; we'll probably have one early next year at Community Audio, maybe we can work another joint meeting then. Hope to see you at least at the holida... | |
| Avalon Eidolon Diamond and Tenor Audio OTL While I think the Lamms are excellent amps (I own ML1.1s), the one you have is certainly no slouch and is quite highly regarded by many in these forums. What is it you don't like about it, and what are you really looking for? | |
| What constitutes an AUDIOPHILE recording In the old days, the joke was that an "audiophile recording" was one of an obscure orchestra playing and conducted wretchedly but recorded in the most glorious, natural sound that you ever heard. This was one of J. Gordon Holt's golden rules of au... | |
| Can metal chassis become defective? I Trelja's right. I own an 1886 Victorian, and one night in the middle of the Mahler 2nd, as the chorus was singing towards the heavens, the electricity in my house just went off! I went outside and the rest of the neighborhood was fine. Turned out ... | |
| Absolute Best CD Players Out There Under $12k ? Having heard the dCS stack, the EMM Labs gear, the Wadia 27/270 and the Linn, I would choose the EMM from those choices principally because it does SACD and I like SACD far more than redbook. If it were just redbook, though, I'd go with the Linn, ... | |
| what the heck is a Namiki DF-100 Direction Finder I believe it's a device that will tell you if your component is in correct polarity when you plug it in, or if you need to reverse the plug. It actually makes a difference for at least some European items (i.e., both my Jadis JA80 amps were invert... | |
| SACD and DAC Unfortunately, there still are no SACD players with a DSD digital output that I know of, let alone a 6-channel DSD output, at least in the US (a lot of SACD players will have a digital output, but that's a pcm digital signal for the CD layer of hy... | |
| Meitner MTR101 Amps There are a number of posts on the MTR 101s, so you might check the archives as well. I used them for a number of years as bass amplifiers for my four-piece system and also heard them at times as full range amps. They are very good pieces, but hav... | |
| The best sounding Audio Research Line Stage preamp If you're looking for the one that has the best of the tube-like qualities, go with the LS5. The rest of them, save the 16 and the 25, are far more solid-state like in character. I personally think the LS5 is the best of the line stages ARC has ev... | |
| Transport & tweaks for audio logic 24MXL Depends on your definition of "significantly"; there will certainly be a difference. Summarizing the past threads (and you should check the archives) the CEC TL-1 and 2 and the Forsell (which I use) are favored transports with the Audio Logic. I'd... | |
| Watt/Puppy 7 or Sophia? Based on my listening in my dealer's place, both speakers well set up, the general feeling I had was that there is a noticeable difference, the Watt/Puppies are more revealing and go deeper in the bass, the Sophias are decidedly more forgiving of ... |