tom_hankins
Responses from tom_hankins
| Comparison of Thiel CS2.4 vs. Vandersteen 3A Sig. Pops, you could be right. Must be contagious though. The comments from friends and visitors on my system seem to be...effortless, smooth, and detailed more than anything else. Maybe its the water. | |
| Comparison of Thiel CS2.4 vs. Vandersteen 3A Sig. Stevecham, I am making the same mistakes as you are. Spend at least 3-4 hours after work everyday listening to my CS7.2s. Not a harsh bone in their big pretty bodies. This in a SS system too. Smooth and real sounding speakers that completly get ou... | |
| Most Quiet TUBE Preamp. Linestage. $ 12K or less ARC Ref.3!! | |
| Feedback on new Ayre MX-R Monoblocks I have also heard the Ayre Monoblocks in an all Ayre system. K-1XE, C-5XE, P-5XE, VPI turntable. Heard them with cabling from either JPS, or using the new Audioquest cables. The sound was anything but dry or cool. Huge soundstage with lots of deta... | |
| best speakers for Ayre amps ? Got to hear the Ayre K-1xe/MX-Rs with the Vandersteen Quatros yesterday....WOW!! | |
| What is the best SS Amp and Pre given the trends? My favorite SS pairing so far has been the Ayre K-1XE/Ayre MX-R followed by the,Pass Labs XO-2/Pass Labs 350.5 | |
| Thiel 1.6 vs. 2.4 vs. 3.6 using NAD c372 IMO, either the 2.4 or 3.6 will be a little to much speaker for your room. But if you do go with one of these I like the 2.4 more. I would get either the 1.6.....or even better, The 3-way monitor PCS for your room. These speakers (PCS) are awesome... | |
| Top ten tube amps Singlepower Audio SDS-XLR (or any of his high end models) balanced headphone amp. Can make even the hardest core speaker fans melt in there chairs.Plus the big VTL amps andARC Ref.210 | |
| Preamp Advice plz?? Using Nak PA-7 & Legacy Focus Check out the Parasound Halo P3 preamp. Just a little over your budget used. Also they made a model P/LD 2000, or P/LD1500 that come up for a couple hundred every once in a while that where pretty good preamps. Years ago I had a second system in m... | |
| Amp recommendation for AKG K1000's headphones? Try one of the new Singlepower Audio Extreme amps that have just come out. There are lots of opions of it with the K1000 on www.head-fi.org. I have owned two amps from them (SDS and SDS-XLR) and they were both much better than any of the other hig... | |
| Bel Canto Cd-1 Thanks Tgyeti. Would you put the sonic signature of the CD-1 somewhere between the Ayre and EMC-1? | |
| Top Ten Interconnects of all time... AUDIOQUEST SKY!! | |
| Bel Canto Cd-1 Nobody with any info on these players? At the close out prices (1/2 price) this is a very tempting player. | |
| Audioquest CV-8 speaker cables? How about the CV-6? Can anyone lead me to any reviews of either of these cables? Thanks | |
| VPI table owners, help please. I have decided after several cables from tonearm to phono that the Zu Xaus is the one for me. Better than running any of my Audioquest or Bogdans or the VPI tonearm cable. It combined with the balanced Panthers everywhere else is right where I lik... |