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| Preamp for Pass Try the Canary CA900. My friend is using one of them with a set of XA 160.5 Mono Blocks with great results. I believe he has a source of getting those pre-amplifiers. He is here on audiogon under the username Truesoundworks, | |
| The Audiophile's Wife I am impressed and she is a very good sport you are very blessed. | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? I have been playing with croyogenically treating cables for few years. All it does is pack the molecules closer together. I have a HDMI and USB cable speed tester. HDMI and USB cables always test much faster with a Cryo treatment than opposed to n... | |
| Sunfire, Bedini 803, Mac to drive Apogee Scintilla Do not by any of the Scintilla. You would be better suited with a set of Apogee Duetta Signatures. Sonically the Duetta Signautre is a better speaker than the Scintilla and the Diva. Now keep in mind " this is my opinion". I have owned Scintillas,... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers I have owned several pairs of electrostats and they can also sound very hot up top. I have owned several pairs of Martin Logans before I bought my first ribbon speakers a pair of Magnepan 2.7 and they blew away the Martin Logan's at 4 times the re... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti Most speaker cabinets are made from particle board. Usually a medium to high density particle board. You should not make speakers with a real hardwood cabinet. Real wood has a resonate frequency depending on type of breed of wood that can adversel... | |
| PASS LABS INT-150 or X-250 with X-1 Sonically speaking I the INT 150 is better than an original X250 and X1. I have heard the INT 150 up against the X250 and X1. Granted my comparison was done on a pair of Wilson Sophia 2s. If I had a choice I would go with INT 150. Lots of power is... | |
| Tubed Linestage The edge you are hearing is a result of your power amps. I have owned KMA 160s, but before the KMAs I had a KSA 80B. Sonically speaking the KSA 80B was much better than the KMA 160s. If you remember that the KMA 160s were this amp that could progr... | |
| Anyone auditioned Pass Labs XP-30 preamp? I have an XP 10 and love it. I have auditioned the XP 20 and I like my XP 10 better. I am not saying that the XP 10 is better. Iam saying I like the XP 10 better than the XP 20. I felt that the XP 20 has more drive and more detail but I cannot lis... | |
| SANSUI AU-719 Gets Really Hot? I had a couple of those amps through out the years from horse trading and they do run a little on the hot side. They are biased more on the A side but they should not burn you. It is a high current design and should run most speakers from 3 to 16 ... | |
| HT and two channel receiver recommendation That is very hard @ only $300.00. I would stay in the 2 channel wold and do a 2 channel home theater. @ $300.00 you are spreading the performance and features thin. My father thought that 5 ch would be cool and his budget was much bigger. After a ... | |
| I NEED a tone control to control bass. Hire a lady of the evening and send her to your neighbor complements of you and your hifi rig. If that does not work then you will need to move. All seriousness aside even if you went to headphones you will still have a problem. I had a neighbor w... | |
| Nakamich RX-505 Question It is the beginning of the end. My old RX 505 did that before it completely died. I got an estimate to fix it and was too much to fix, more than it is worth. You could contact Stephen Sank at Bk11@thuntek.net he may be able to help. | |
| B&W 801D or 802Ds The 801D sound much better than the 802D. One woofer is better than two. The sound is more coherent. One of my good customers upgraded to the 801D from the 802D and it is a dramatic upgrade. The 802D was overly warm and the bass is muddy by compar... | |
| PAD Musaeus vs. Venustas The Venustas is much more neutral. It has a bigger sound stage tighter focus with better center image. The frequency extremes are better. The top end has more definition and much smoother than the Musaeus. |