treepmeyer
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| Spendor SP 1/2e....TECH HELP NEEDED! Before you do anything else I recommend that you join the Spendor user group at the link below. There are guys on this forum who have enormous experience with troubleshooting and restoring Spendors, and specifically the BC-1 line. Best of luck. ... | |
| Sansui? @johnnotkathi - my brother-in-law likes 70's rock, country, Jimmy Buffett and current blues (eg, Keb Mo). Reverb has two alphas for sale at reasonable prices ($750 and $850) by a seller in Japan. Paired with JBL 100's and I think he'd be a happy... | |
| Sansui? @mahgister many thanks. There's an alpha 907 for sale on USAudiomart! What period speakers would pair well with this amp? | |
| Sansui? I stipulated a receiver because I assumed that Sansui didn't offer an integrated in the 80's. Probably a bad assumption - as I said, I'm clueless about the 80's. So let's say integrated, just not separates. Since he doesn't have a big vinyl or ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? This seems to be a continuation of a recent thread on a "French" sound. Isn't hyper-detail another equipment design aesthetic? It's not my cup of tea, but it certainly seems to be a design goal valued by some manufacturers and their customers. ... | |
| Bacch Dsp, True stereo? I am very favorably disposed to the work of Choueiri but I'm trying to wrap my head around some practicalities. He is almost certainly the real deal; not vendor marketing hype. Quite the opposite, actually. He needs some help to make his ideas ... | |
| Major innovative break through: The new NSMT Loudspeakers reference speaker @soix +1. FWIW I take all reviews with a grain of salt, but see no need at all for personal attacks. That smacks of trolling to me: being insulting precisely to obtain a defensive response. Teajay, thank you for your review and your participati... | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? @oceanandmountains I have a Peachtree GaN1 driving Spendor S3/5R2 speakers in a small room (12'x15'). I love to listed to vocals at low volume - think Melody Gardot - at night with the lights low and a snifter of scotch. Actually, to my surpris... | |
| Problems with the IFI Zen Stream.. What's a better Alternative? @dbb - Your problem may be Volumio, not the iFi hardware. I had a miniDSP SHD streamer running the Volumio OS. It didn't drop the signal, but it behaved in a quirky, intensely frustrating manner that I couldn't control. The hardware was excelle... | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? @markmuse - I got my modded Gan1 back from Ric less than a month ago, so he is still doing them. Best to call him 9r send him an email to be sure. | |
| Digital music questions +1 for Bluesound, but get a decent coax and use the McIntosh DAC. For well under your $1000 budget you will enjoy a significant improvement in SQ. You could upgrade to an LHY lps and still be under budget. Eventually you may feel it worthwhile ... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report @jamesbgood Thanks for the advice. Next year I will be sure to visit the Ultra Fidelis room. I can't account for what I heard in the AQ room, but Vandersteens remain on my short list despite that experience. I will seek them out next year as we... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report I contacted Fritz before the show and he alerted me to the show discount. I've heard great things about his speakers and was considering a purchase. Plus, I have a Peachtree Gan1 so I thought the Atma-Sphere D amps would give me a good idea how ... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report I spent 4 hours at Axpona yesterday and it was worth going; next year I'll do two mornings before the crowds. I'd never justify to myself (or my wife!) spending $100k on a stereo but for reference it was indeed worth experiencing the MBLs. I ha... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report I live in Chicago and will be going to Axpona, as I did last year. My first time I was disappointed by the horrible SQ in the little hotel rooms used by most vendors. The big rooms on the main floor are a different matter. Nonetheless it is wor... |