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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Hmmm guys...If the McIntosh preamps suck that much compared to ARC, how come the top big Mac rigs with their top monoblocks at audio shows sound so darn good... I have never eard any bottleneck effect at the numerous shows I have gone to.I mean Ma... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! On Audioaficionado, someone compared an ARC REF6 pre with a Mcintosh C2600, and said there is nothing to write about that makes the REF6 more than 2x the price of the C2600...So I don't know it you guys are comparing the ARC preamps to welding mac... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Robert S.Youman from Positive Feeback writes in it's review of the ARC REF6 that as good as it is , it was still bested by the preamp analog section of his Devialet 800.................?? All these years of research by arc, all those tube design, ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! wc,Could you please describe how the sound of the REF10 is so much better than the Sim 740p. Is it tubey midrange warmth, is it resolution ( normally one of simaudio strength), is it prat or transcient attacks, or just the soundstage which is big... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! riaa,I see your point, and it is perfectly valid. I did not mean for the op to do this while loosing money acquiring bad resale value gear, but by borrowing ( or loaning maybe, if the op wants it) that more affordable gear...as he seems to have a ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Just to be sure you don t get me wrong on this. It is absolutely marvellous to have someone compared the best gear with the best gear , to know wich of what is the absolute best. Very very interesting.But some of us would like to know if we can ap... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I agree that this thread needs lower priced gear to be compared with the big buck reference gear. Because we mostly got the point as to reference gear vs reference gear is about. But I suspect pressure from some ( dealers ?) who do not want those... | |
| Ps Audio BHK preamp Vs ARC best preamps Seems like the older pre amplifier designs are really substrative to the sound. It is my experience also. Newer design are better, still I think ARC, Ayre and some other brands are asking just too much money for their top gun pres nowadays... just... | |
| Please give me advice about an ARC VT 200 amp I have huge respect for audiophiles that are going with tube amps. I think this is THE WAY to go if someone wants real and full tube sound. I don t think going tube preamp and ss amp is the right way, as I beleive messing with tube in the preamp ... | |
| PS Audio or Ayre? pacmi03, the Ayre K5xe was their entry level at the time more than 10 years ago, so it is normal that it is beaten in performance by newer designs. Your friends that use it with 30k monoblocks are bottlenecking their system big time...according th... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I bet that preamplifier can equal the arc for 23k less...http://www.enjoythemusic.com/superioraudio/equipment/0410/coincident_statement_line_stage.htm | |
| PS Audio or Ayre? Had the Ayre K5xe mp before, was trounced by a McIntosh C47. Preamps have evolved, a little bit like dacs. Even the digital volume in my old Yulong DA8 dac was better than the Ayre. The K5xe is not a bad unit, but I was loosing details ( resolutio... | |
| Opinions on best integrated under 10k? I had the H160. I changed for separates , Luxman amp and Mac pre. What I got for grossly 4x the Hegel ´s price... Class A midrange richness...brass and sax sound have more meat on the bone, tube like density in the highs and smoothness, better cla... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! The famous debate of the pre. What I don’t get is why we put huge amount of money on the amplifier design...powerful class A or tube for that lush midrange and highs, tube for that midrange warmth and tonal density. We then « mess around with» or ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I don t agree about the preamp being the heart of the system. You will never hear more resolution and transparency than plugging the dac direct to amp. So what you are hearing is mostly added color and gain. I ‘ sure most of you would not pass the... |