celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| How loud do you listen to your music? I don't. | |
| Tough choice for a new setup, please look The CEC is ugly and exceptional as a transport. I don't know if it's the belt drive or just the assembly, but it does sing with an external DAC which would smoke the other players. | |
| Best Portable Digital Device I'm old school. iRiver still makes a very good portable CD player which blasts the iPod/mp3 compressed sound. It will drive the Etymotics easily enough. One model even has a digital out for a DAC. They are very suprising even when plugged into a h... | |
| Warmest speaker? Rogers LS3/5A with tube electronics fits the bill. | |
| Audiophile movie Great movie. Yes, a bit over the top. Reminded me of catching the train to Salzburg to retrieve my bosses new (demo) Bimmer 535i and taking it for a crazy Autobahn run into the zone. Excessive, pure and well above the fray of ordinary American dri... | |
| $1500 bookshelf speakers with laid-back highs? Spendors really are so musical and a bit laid back. They are also driven well by most quality electronics and present no strange loads. | |
| one-box solution I've owned the NAD L-40 and the Linn Classik. You get what you pay for. The L-40 is decent enough but the Linn creams it so it all depends on your needs. Vocals are smoother with the Linn and bass is definitely more controlled. | |
| Speakers for Secondary Adcom System The Spendor small monitors are very musical and not so critical of the brightness that usually accompanies Adcom gear. | |
| Who makes half size transports thes days? Cyrus does make a shoebox transport. Check their website. | |
| Reciever Questions. Thiels. First reviewer is correct in power demands of the Thiels. IF you must stay with a receiver the Luxman 1120A ($350 used) will drive these well. Rated at 120wpc and loads of amperage it will bench at about 160wpc and sounds marvelous. I've heard min... | |
| Speakers to make even Raffi sound good? SuperZeroes are great. More bulletproof are the Rock Solids which are also for outdoor use so no grill to be messed with and will survive Silly Putty attacks and spilled Kool-Aid. Also sound decent. | |
| Eric Bibb fans? The old Opus 3 "River Road" is classic. Out-of-Print 2 channel tape which sounds marvelous. If you are nice I'll send you a burned copy. | |
| Power cable for tube output cdp LAT International and Signal Cable work well. | |
| What's a decent, current used transport? CEC/Parasound units are truly nearly unbeatable. I cannot buy into the belt drive thing for digital, but I've owned a highly modified Parasound CDT 2000 and it was unbelievable for analog sound. Top loader so my wife hated it, but sound..........M... | |
| What do you look for in damping factor? Specific to your Maggies, damping factor is a factor as the panels really do need to be controlled. In my day of selling audio we took in a pair of Maggies and they sounded dreadful with everything in the store they had tried. When I found out we ... |