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| Amp and Pre-Amp suggestions needed OK audionoobie,you've got a 6Ω speaker that's 88db efficient, can be driven with 100w-400w of power, & the Rogue is not cutting it with these speakers. The Cronus is already a pretty fair piece of gear, so don't make the mistake of a lat... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? I feel the same way about B&W speakers as @millercarbon feels about Wilson.That is, over rated, over priced & under perform.I also had an aquaintance who had an outstanding Wilson set up .... at least on paper. $25G dollar Wilsons, Bryst... | |
| Amp recommendations As usual folks negate to include the LxWxH of the room they're playing their system in but in this case it doesn't matter. Man have you got the wrong amp for a 4Ω speaker, with a 88SPL that has a frequency response of 26Hz-20kHz. Once you get a de... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Well blow me over with a feather.I figured with this hi-fi lot it would jazz city up the wahzoo.What a pleasant surprise. | |
| B&W vs. Sonus Faber It may sound odd, but have you considered hauling your gear to the hi-fi store that owns the B&W and SF speakers?Run it by the shop owner, and if he’s hip here’s what I suggest. Take your equipment there a day before your audition, plug it in ... | |
| Audiophile demographics? They're too cheap. | |
| Preamp recommendation $2G’s?VTL Ultimate.... if you can find one.Way ahead of it’s time.You won’t be disappointed.https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58800-vtl-ultimate-preamplifier/ | |
| turntable recommendations Get yourself a real turntable son. Check out the 1st link. Here's an Oracle DELPHI III for $1500 bucks, no arm. Next link is for an SME Carbon arm for $1300 Canadian. That's $950 U.S. Get your Dynavector 20X2 rebuilt by Soundsmith with a gem st... | |
| Wanting to get back into the hobby and want to start with the speakers. The room sir, tell us about the room you're placing them in, then we can make relative speaker suggestions. | |
| Dedicated Vinyl system next upgrade? Paul wrote: Would upgrading the capacitors require me sending the amp in or is that something I could do on my own? I don’t know Paul. If you’re an electronics Tech and know your way around a sodering gun, built Heath Kits, and are in the Instrume... | |
| Dedicated Vinyl system next upgrade? Holly law a diminishing returns is right. Paul you have an outstanding base to start with & moving up the later is going to cost you large, so you’ve hit the nail on the head there. Compound that with the audio disease, meaning what ever you ... | |
| Integrated amp suggestions. Build quality, fast, finesse, articulate (oversized dual-mono power supply) and grunt. Treat yourself, audition a Sim Moon, you won’t be disappointed.https://simaudio.com/en/product/700i-integrated-amplifier/ | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Hi 99,With such a plinth of esoteic high power amps, you really owe it to yourself to add to your list of speakers and audition the Muraudio px1, or pxII.I could go on and on about the virtues of these speakers, but less is more, so I'll leave it ... | |
| Amp Speaker Pairing Pass Labs XA’s, if I had a room that was 19’ wide, 32’ long with 9’ ceiling, I’d be looking at Tannoy Westministers, or at least a pair of Tannoy Canterbury’s. You have the room length to be able to take advantage of the bass extension the Tannoy’... | |
| Next upgrade for my analog source Woe mule,I may/maynot be missing something here. According to what you’ve written "Preamp and amp are using Lumley Reference", which means you’re more than likely using the Ray Lumley Pv1 reference pre-amp. Now to the best of my knowledge the PV1 ... |