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| TAS. The Absolute Sound? Michael Fremer charming? | |
| Aries-Cerat Helene Review I moved to the top of the line Kubalas. Got them used, but they best the much less expensive Inakustiks by a wide margin. The Kubalas tend toward the polite but just so natural sounding. | |
| Aries-Cerat Helene Review jc51373, Did you get the mention of how much he sells and how all the ultra rich own AC? Moving in these circles as he does. Be interesting to see what he sells as the absolute best (as in nothing close) when he looses a line and has to replace ... | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love Thanks for reminding me of Adcom. Have had the 555s and then the monos and couldnt really ever come to like them. Still use a 535 in my garage, although this is soon to be replaced with most likely a vintage tube integrated. If I dont sell my pair... | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love First Watt amps. Most S.S. preamps. Horns. Harbeth speakers, Sanders electrostats, big omni MBLs, most KEFs I have heard recently,and on. Unfortunately as my personal systems improve and as I become a better listener, the list of also rans grows e... | |
| You don't lack bass, you have too much treble I am not so sure I agree with the premise of the OP. entirely. No doubt the room is hugely important and intelligent use of treatments is paramount, but I dont hear room problems in terms of balance. Mids and highs do nothing to add to or detract ... | |
| Acceptable to ask seller for option to return a component? stereo5 gives an example of why it is dangerous to accept returns. Yet another example of the 1%, probably 2% now, that ruin things for everyone. Over the last 25 years, I have had a few buyers want to return vacuum tubes because they didnt like t... | |
| Let the best be your guide I dont try to "fix" any recording. I accept the imperfections. Any system that makes everything sound good is a colored system. | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. Just the opposite for me. I prefer spades. | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers The last few shows attended, I have been disappointed with some of the more exotic tweeters designs I have heard. Now this could be the room and other factors, but I always prefer the sound of soft domes in any environment. | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? I think it more advisable to feed your S.S. amp with a tubed preamp and in my experience this seems more common. Very few if any disadvantages to tubed small signal devices versus tube amps which need to be matched more closely with speakers. Espe... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? They are typically very quiet. Neutrality but not at the expense of texture and proper color. Most S.S. preamps I have heard dont get as many things right as the more neutral/linear leaning tubed models. Perhaps oversimplification would be a good ... | |
| Aries-Cerat Helene Review To me this is the face of this company in North America and I just cant get around it. Make no mistake this is on me. Now if I could buy directly from the company this might change things. It is simply not enough to have the best or one of the bes... | |
| Aries-Cerat Helene Review The problem I have with Aries Cerat is the gushing regarding this product to me by the importer out of Canada. No line is that much better than everything else! | |
| He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. Correct me if I am wrong but there is only one person who had actually met this man. Believe none of what you read and half of what you see. As if there are no disgruntled children with an axe to grind. Judgment is part of life and it helps us d... |