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| Should I upgrade to a one box player or transport? Old, old, old!!. A good quality component is always a good one. A new one should offer better quality to be better. New is no assurance of better. Bel Canto 1.1 DAC is fine. Meridian transports should be tried first if possible.Luck | |
| Need Help with Dacs. Fellow A'goner: Wherever you find would be wise to test-listening first. Meridian 263 doesn't do upsampling but it makes music right.Better try a different dig cable or transport or both.Luck | |
| Why buy older digital gear? When first tried a Meridian 263 DAC with my Panasonic A-120 DVD player I stopped listening to sounds and gear and was pulled into music.Much later after replacing my Meridian with a Monarchy upsampler paired with a MSB II DAC the sense of musicali... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase Deceive? My wife actually bought for me my "new" Musical Fidelity power amp. | |
| Your First System Year 1966. 19 years old -very limited income.An old JBL solid state integrated amp for $20 from a friend. Another friend's former speakers Acoustic Research AR-5 for $15 and a third friend let go an AR-XA turntable no cartridge fitted for $5. Got ... | |
| Egglestonworks Andra original versus Andra-II Jpp59 wrote: "I loved my original Andra's and got frustated at times due to the lack of mid-bass/bass response but loved the midrange and top end. I impressed with the improved bass performance of the Andra-II but feel that something of the magic ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Great question!All speaker replacing took place for room related or financial reasons. 1. Sennheiser HD40 headphones -$90-(Shoestring budget) 2. Acoustic Research AR5 -----$200-(A bargain !) 3. JBL homemade TL 15-inch ---$400-(High efficiency !) ... | |
| any new Quad 11/12L owners? Hi: New 12Ls. After moving speakers away from rear wall about 10 inches, plugged both rear ports with straws to flatten a 6 dB bump around 100 Hz. After the "strawing" peak is under 4 dB and low end is now -6 dB at 45 Hz instead of 50 Hz. Electron... | |
| Noise in an old NAD 3020 Hi:My recently sold NAD 3020 use to "thump" when turned on and right after that one channel sounded like big sunami waves. Those noises usually disappeared in a couple of minutes.The solutions were: Push mute button before powering on and let pass... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Hi:Move forward your listening seat.Mine is a large upholstered sofa bearing on rear wall. There was in my listening room this consistent mid-bass "bump". Radio Shack SLM said +14 dBs around 100 Hz. Tried EQ, port plugging, speaker relocation on f... | |
| My vote for Tweak of the Week $485 ? for one thousand knobs ? Pal! that's really cheap !!LOL | |
| There's a sucker born every minute You don't understand. Substitute a few words and the meaning is crystal-clear. "The egg-shape of the AD-PERSON head provides the perfect environment for INSANITY to resonate and bounce out to the room rather than having BRAIN waves get lost in the... | |
| Egglestone Andra 1 tweeter "crossover" Dear Andra owner:Inserting a small-value resistor in series with the tweeter, after the x-over, will certainly lower the tweeter output without varying the factory's x-over point.The inmediate result would be a "smoothening" of sound in the treble... | |
| Review: NAD 3020 Receiver Hello:Having owned a NAD 3020 integrated 20wpc amplifier and having compared it against costlier equipment (ADCOM - Musical Fidelity - VTL) has convinced me that NAD is really special. It's also a slap in the face of those designers and manufactur... | |
| Review: Musical Fidelity A-3cr Amplifier Hi:Bought my MF A3-cr from a very careful audiophile friend. When first used it inmediately noticed a "relaxing" quality in sound never experienced before. Also bass has an impressive authority and definition. Not to forget the velvety black silen... |