noble100
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| its all about the music,no way hose For myself, it's more like: 'It's all about what sounds good", more than "It's all about the music". I think sounds soothe us in a basic, primal way. Cliche enough? High-end equipment generally makes a given CD or LP sound much better than mass ma... | |
| what made you get into high end gear. After staring at Nrchy's red and blue pot on his 'system' picture I think I just became mentally ill, but I don't feel that much different. | |
| solid state amps matched with tube pre amp I would turn on the preamp then your amp and never turn them off until you need to swap tubes or your amp quits, IMHO. Your ears will thank you. | |
| Magnepan positioning I use Maggies for 2-channel and surround and agree: they need lots of clean power and room behind them to sound their best. I move them out 4-5 ft for 2-channel and leave them about 2 ft from the wall for surround. You may be best with box speaker... | |
| Artist's Best or Jack Johnson-In Between Dreams | |
| Need Opinions on center channel speaker.... Macdadtexas, I agree with getting what you like. My main point is that, in my experience, getting the same type and quality makes the sound more cohesive. There's a distinct sound to speakers, especially cones vs planars or electrostatics. The mo... | |
| Need Opinions on center channel speaker.... Chadnliz, I've become a firm believer in matching the right, left and center speakers in terms of type and quality. I switched from a cone center to a planar to match my fronts and enjoy the soundtracks more than some of the movies. The speakers s... | |
| phantom center channel Sammydog, I ran a dynamic center channel for awhile with Magnepan fronts and found I preferred the phantom center channel - the voices were better integrated with the rest of the audio. But I recently added a Magnepan center channel to match the f... | |
| B&K preamp/tuners..... I bought a used B&K Ref. 20 preamp/processor/tuner here on Audiogon for $600($2500 new). It's a very good unit but agree with Tripper on the volume control not being user friendly. Still use it for surround (the processor is very good) but inc... | |
| Need help with tube linestage-SF vs ARC vs Others The VTL 2.5 seems to fit your needs for everything except its not balanced. Very detailed with a touch of bloom/warmth in the upper bass and midrange. It has HT bypass, a remote and 2 outputs (for subwoofer). But maybe the BAT mentioned above woul... | |
| conrad johnson v. aragon amp Kniem, I have the same amp (Aragon 4004 MKII). A local dealer here in Indy, Audio Solutions, was kind enough to loan me a few tubed preamps (a Cary 98 and a VTL 2.5) to see how they sounded in my system. I was using a solid state B&K Ref. 20. ... | |
| What difference would the XYZ DAC make? 02pete, I'm in the same boat - looking to upgrade my modest high end system. I'll be interested in reading responses. I've been researching possible upgrades, ran a thread similar to yours and got many good suggestions. I decided to upgrade throug... | |
| Can the Sony S7700 play CDRs ? I have the Sony DVP-S7700, too. I've played CDRs many times and it works well. Sorry, I don't want to sell now - I want to get a MF Trivista 21 DAC and use the Sony as a transport and for DVDs. The 7700 has dual laser pickups, 1 for DVDs and 1 for... | |
| Audio room dimensions I just found out about a company that could probably help you: Auralex at www.truesoundcontrol.com. They offer free room analysis and recommendations (existing and unconstructed)as well as products. I'm going to give them a try. Good luck. | |
| Is a pre/pro considered digtal or analog ? Treyhoss and Lneilb, The B&K Ref 20 pre/pro does have a bypass which keeps the signal analog for stereo, but it converts an analog input signal back to digital whenever the DTS, ProLogic or other processing is selected. I only use processing f... |