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| Matching amp for Talon Khorus The Parasound JC-1s, Sim Audio amps, Belles mono amps, Bryston mono amps would all work well with the Talons.Happy Listening. | |
| sonus faber cremona vs jmlab mezzo utopia. The Cremona is a very warm sounding speaker especially in the mids, it will lack some of the details and bass slam of the JM Labs. It depends on your musical preference and what equipment you have in yor system. The Sonus require some watts to mak... | |
| Comments on Electrocompaniet ECD1 Agree with Danlib1, I have the Electro on my SOny SCD-777ES and it was clearly better than the stock Sony as described above. The AL 2400 and Chord 64 were even better but not at the used price of $1300 or so. The improvements were not that huge o... | |
| Want to buy for a power conditioner? Try the Balanced Power that Aberdeen Components advertises on Agon he offers free shipping to your door, cannot beat that for a trial audition.Happy Listening. | |
| Pass Labs X-350 vs Parasound JC-1 Monoblocks? Marty loves the X-250 and the Edge NL-10 amps for different speakers, this is about synergy with amps and speakers. The X-250 has some sparkle on top and with the right speakers, sound fantastic, with other, OK. Looking at your system, you would p... | |
| B&W 804 with ??? Are your 804 matrix or N series speakers? B&Ws are not bright speakers. The Halfer amp can be reasonably moded by Musical Concepts and they would sound great. I would say experiment first with the Halfer mod. B&Ws generally come alive with... | |
| Speakers for under $10k used? F155mph,Synergy with the amp is the first step to better sound, unless you are planning to buy the speakers and built your system around them. You need to be more specific, there is no best of anything out there, good sound comes from system syner... | |
| Experience with Sony SACD as transports or other? Brooks1,Thanks I have been to Russ P's home and heard his system, fantastic, but the mod that I heard at the time used the AL DAC and bypassed the Sonys digi output altogether.Happy Listening. | |
| Birdland DAC Fuuny you should ask, I have the Birdland DAC with the Volume control in my system for an audition right now. I have also had teh Wavelength, Electrocompaniet, Audio Logic 2400 and Chord 64 DACs. The higher priced DACs are better than the Birdland... | |
| B&K Sonata M200 vs Aragon paladiums - whats better Yes you are in the price range of a used Pass Labs X-250. Most importantly is what speakers you are using. The synergy between the speakers and amps is critcal to what amp is better. You could have the best amps in the world but if they don't work... | |
| Krell sacd+Chord Dac64 Help please The DAC 64 has a 4 second delay, not sure about the popping sound though.Happy Listening. | |
| Plinius, SimAudio or Levinson $3kused? I had the opposite experience, I felt the Levinson 334 power amp on Verity Audio $17K speakers was better than the Sim AUdio W-5. I also own the Pass X-250 and I thnk that it also out performs the Sim.The most improtant issue is how will the amps ... | |
| Musical A3.2 pre& or A308 integrated? Bring a few intergrated amps home and see what you like. THen you can be sure you have heard differenct amps and make your own decision. | |
| Next Biggest Improvement after Speakers ? All good answers, the room is very important and can be 50% of the sound or more sometimes. The Speaker and amp marriage is critical. I recently upgraded to different speakers and when I got them home, they sounded like crap, not musical at all. I... | |
| Won't preamps become obsolete? Lots of good responses BUT it all depends on the matching of the CDP preamp and input on the amp. It also depends on the quality of the volume control in the CDP. The Shanling mentioned above had a poor volume control even in my highly modded one.... |