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| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. I currently use the Emotiva XPR-1 monoblock amplifiers for my front three channels. If I had to look at upgrading, I would be going after the Parasound JC1 monoblocks for left/center/right. Maybe a Parasound A21 for the surround channels.Since yo... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. Oh, I just saw you changed your post. The original post said you were about to bid on the MC303.I can only theorize on what the sound of the Krell 7200 vs MC303 is going to be.Based on what I have read and what I know about Krell, the Krell 7200 ... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. My own preferences are probably different from yours. I care mainly about sound quality. I do not care about 4K. I do not care about Dolby Atmos / DTS:X. I do not care about room correction (I did not like Dirac room correction when I tested i... | |
| Krell S1200 or Yamaha CXA5100? Thanks for the update, nak127! | |
| Power Cord I don’t believe that a specific brand of power cord is supposedly matched best to a specific brand/model of audio device. In my experience, it really comes down to power cord material (metallurgy) and composition/geometry.I recently made a set of ... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. The Marantz 8802A is NOT a receiver. It is an HT processor (as I have said earlier). This means it requires an external amplifier for every speaker you want to connect.There are Marantz AVR receivers that do have amplifiers built in, such as the... | |
| Sound correction in small room If you wanted to try to build your own bass panels, I would use two different types of panels. I would put a layer of Owens 2" 703 FRK in front and then a standard 2" 703 panel in back (making a 4" panel). The FRK has a metal foil coating. This se... | |
| Sound correction in small room You have a relatively small room. My room is somewhat similar shaped at 11 x 17 x 9. Based on amroc, you have room nodes at 55hz, 75h, 90hz, 110hz, 111hz, all at different walls, but always in the corners:https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc?l=15.1&... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @nonoise - JINX! | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @willgolf - thanks for the feedback on the PADIS and BLUE. There could be a couple of things going on here. One is that the tube amp may not be high resolution enough to reveal any slight differences between PADIS and BLUE (I'm not saying this i... | |
| Dedicated Outlets - The Latest Recommendations My understanding is that Romex (such as 10-2 or 10-3) can be run behind drywall and in attic areas without a conduit. That is what I found out during electrical code research and that is actually how my house wiring is ran. My house was built in... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. I read your other thread. For what it’s worth, I have heard from two sources that McIntosh works very well with Martin Logan speakers.Sorry, can’t stop thinking about possibilities. Here’s a radical idea. Get the following and pair them together:-... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. Oh, I would post your short list of integrated amps as a new thread in the "Amps Preamps" forum and ask about the differences / sonic signature of your 4 choices. I don't have any experience with your choices other than the normal "McIntosh" soni... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. Going with the Krell Foundation option, I've read that I can either go with a power amp or an integrated amp. Whats the benefit of one vs. the other?An integrated amp is just an amplifier has a "preamp" built into it. This is, essentially, anot... | |
| Component recommendations: best bang for buck. I would not say that the Krell is "better" than the Marantz. They are different. The Marantz is priced lower because of economy of scale. It has a huge retail network and will be able to sell significantly more units than the Krell Foundation b... |