Here's some food for thought...
For the past twelve months or so I've been buying/selling equipment like I'm going to the chair. 2 McIntosh pieces, Von Schweikert speakers. etc. etc. etc. Ridiculous!
Somewhere in the middle of last year I purchased a Marantz TT-15 turntable. According to my sales guy Bob at Audio Den in beautiful downtown Lake Grove, it's essentially a Clearaudio unit badged with the Marantz logo. (There's really no downtown here, nor is there a lake, nor a grove.) Having never had a "true" phono preamp other than those little pro-ject or other manufacturer small boxes, I was able to scoop up a Primare phono stage for a very nice price used here on the 'Gon. IMHO, an excellent phono stage. I like the brand.
Anyway, I went back there the other day just to see what's new and I was convinced to buy a Primare i22 integrated...It's a class d amp which can put out around 160 watts into 4 ohms - sufficient enough for my listening levels. Primare builds everything from the ground up, nothing inside it is outsourced like so many other class d amps.
Unfortunately, there was no way to hook up the CS 3.5's crossover to the integrated...so back it went. I can't believe I returned something because I might have to part with my Thiels...
For the past twelve months or so I've been buying/selling equipment like I'm going to the chair. 2 McIntosh pieces, Von Schweikert speakers. etc. etc. etc. Ridiculous!
Somewhere in the middle of last year I purchased a Marantz TT-15 turntable. According to my sales guy Bob at Audio Den in beautiful downtown Lake Grove, it's essentially a Clearaudio unit badged with the Marantz logo. (There's really no downtown here, nor is there a lake, nor a grove.) Having never had a "true" phono preamp other than those little pro-ject or other manufacturer small boxes, I was able to scoop up a Primare phono stage for a very nice price used here on the 'Gon. IMHO, an excellent phono stage. I like the brand.
Anyway, I went back there the other day just to see what's new and I was convinced to buy a Primare i22 integrated...It's a class d amp which can put out around 160 watts into 4 ohms - sufficient enough for my listening levels. Primare builds everything from the ground up, nothing inside it is outsourced like so many other class d amps.
Unfortunately, there was no way to hook up the CS 3.5's crossover to the integrated...so back it went. I can't believe I returned something because I might have to part with my Thiels...