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| What to match with KSA-50 The Pass X0 is a very natural sounding preamp but not "warm" sounding as in tube warm. If you want to warm up the sound you will need a tube preamp. | |
| best budget pre used Audible Illusions or McCormack | |
| Do tube dampers really work? Yes but you also have to add a weight to the top of the tube. There were a few companies selling these a few years back but you can make your own by going to the arts and craft store and buying some lead ribbon and making a little circle to fit on... | |
| Review: PS Audio HCA-2 Amplifier I compared over twelve SS amps last year and one of them was the Spectron Musician digital amp. It was very fast and extremely clean sounding but it sounded like the music was coming from one plane without the depth I wanted. Also my older Kinerge... | |
| Jazz/blues guitarist suggestions for SRV fan. Ronnie Earl "the colour of love" is one of the newest on Verve 1997. | |
| Dan Wright "Absolute Truth" mod for SCD-1 / 777es Thanhn387 I am considering the two mods that will run under $1000 with shipping the unit back and forth to Richard Kern.I am a bang for the buck type of guy and know the Sony mod will provide an improvement after hearing my friends but I did not w... | |
| Review: Pass Labs X-250 Amplifier The Linar is a very nice amp but as a new company, you have to think about resale value down the road in my opinion. It was very open sounding, dynamic and natural sounding. I did not get a chance to compare it to the Sim Audio W-5 directly. For t... | |
| Electric guitar cable? JPS Labs and Audience both make guitar cables but I never tried any yet. I gues if I was recoding or play out a lot, I would try one but I am not doing too much of that now. | |
| Best speaker cables for B&Wn803 and Cello Encore Make your own speaker wire and be done with it. | |
| Shunyata versus Elrod I have tired too many power cords to discuss here. The Elrod Sig 2 was a no go on my CDP, it was equaled and outperformed by cheaper cords. The Sig 3 added to my CDP and power amp more weight/body if you want to fatten things up a little and kept ... | |
| Take the plunge into tubed CD player? I just heard the Metronome CDP in my system and it sounded pretty good for the used price of $1500 by passing my X-1 Pass preamp. | |
| Amp Suggestions Parasound Halo, McCormack 500, Pass X-250 are all very good choices as is the Edge amps. | |
| Wadia 301 or ?????? You need to go hear a bunch of CDPs to know which one to buy, each have their own characteristics. EMC-1, Resoultion Audio 21, Sony 777 or SCD-1, Audio Note, Audiomeca, Ayre, GamuT, etc. You need to hear them and make up your own mind. | |
| Which tube amps can I use with my B&W 803N? In my opinion while tube amps work with B&W speakers they do require some juice or high current amps. You may wnat to use a tubre preamp and a SS amp on the B&Ws. | |
| What is the overall consensus on the CJ Premier 17 I compared the CJ 17 MKI to the ARC LS25 MK II a few years ago. The CJ has a very nice warm sound to it and the ARC is more detailed. Combining the two is what I have been looking for but that has not happened in this price range. I have not heard... |