adg101
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| Preamps-Tube I don't think my ModWright LS36.5 is overly lush, but it's pretty darn good; works great with my Pass as well. | |
| Recommend a Cable/Interconnect Set I agree to at least look into Clear Day Double Shotgun speaker cable; start there and use Mogami, Canare or Belden IC’s until your budget allows to upgrade later. I started with the Double Shotguns and later added Pauls single and balanced IC’s. G... | |
| Best amp choice for Thiel 2.4 Definitely agree Thiel and Aerial’s are totally different and I would agree as well to use a tube preamp with a Pass amp on Thiel’s, but not to tame the Pass. I use a tube preamp on my Pass, but I wouldn’t consider my preamp to have a fat tube sou... | |
| Is going from Aerial 10T to Aerial 7T a significant upgrade ? Love my 7b's as well, and they look great in my room without overpowering a room visually, plus the rosewood looks great. Never heard a set of 10t's, but I can only imagine how nice they sound. If it's a look thing, you could probably get a set of... | |
| Best amp choice for Thiel 2.4 Knowing most the manufactures on your list - meaning I have experience listening to them, except the Ayre I'd lean to the Pass X250.5. My Aerial are probably no harder to drive than your Thiel's and I use a X250. The X250 will have plenty of juice... | |
| Parasound 5125 replacement power cord I'd still look at an aftermarket cord over the stock one. Agree don't spend a lot. You'll be surprised what a PC can do. Buy used as you'll likely do better than buying new. I've not listened to the Pangaes's, but I'm sure their entry cord will be... | |
| B&K ST202, modify or replace I agree to look at the McCormack over spending money on your B&K. Owned a B&K years ago and enjoyed it, but it's not in the same class of the DNA amps. You can take a McCormack amp to a much higher level if you know how to do mods yourself... | |
| High Quality Universal Player?? If you're going to use this machine to watch movies, then the CA blue ray players or Oppo will be just fine. If you have a lot of SACD then I'd look at Marantz. Can't speak on the Oppo 105d, but I think the CA 751 is probably close. I can tell you... | |
| Integrated Owners: I Need an Excellent Power Cord Guessing you already have dedicated circuits and something besides spec grade or lesser receptacles in place? If you don't, you should. In my experience it's a waste of time listening to great PC's as you're not hearing what they really have to of... | |
| Aerial 7bs or Thiel 2.4s I have the 7B’s with a X250 and they sound great together. Haven’t heard Thiel’s in years so I won’t comment on them, but when we had two dealers selling them locally, one before the other, they didn’t do it for me. I took a pair of Thiel’s home a... | |
| Finally stepping into the hobby after 30 years of watching from the sidelines Quicksilver Audio 120 Mono's. New a little outside your budget but worth looking into. Probably not much luck finding a used pair.Not tubes, but I'll throw this out. Used ModWright KWA 100 SE. Will sound sweet on Vandy's, with no heat or tube repl... | |
| Shieded power cable with small gauge conductors Curious why it needs to be shielded and small gauge conductors? Are you referring to it being small gauge because you want a flexible cable and what is your budget? Not knowing much to go off here, I'll throw out Kimber PK14 Ascent or older, used ... | |
| help a Die hard ANALOG guy choose a budget CDP Very happy with my Cambridge 851C. It is so close to my table, I use it more often unless I'm in the mood to go through the process of spinning vinyl. It's not a forgiving player, so if the quality of the recording is poor it's not going to fudge ... | |
| Best Interconnects from DAC to Integrated-under 300 used Spend a little more and look at Clear Day Cable balanced. Great cable with very nice XLR's. Use one to feed my CA 851C to my preamp. Paul will send you one at no cost to evaluate first. | |
| Looking for my first tube amplifier, help appreciated. ARC VT50. They don't come up for sale often because it's a great little amp for the money. Very musical amp. |