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| Modern Shahinian Obelisk I guess I should be more open minded, it's just that the matals drivers that I have give a serious listen to were not my taste (Monitor Audio, NHT, B&W). I tend to fall in love with ribbons (maggies, apogees) and silk domes (vienna acoustics).... | |
| Modern Shahinian Obelisk I'm glad to hear the recent ones retain the customer loyaly, maybe they have figured out how to tame the metal dome tiger. If I could put a set of Shahinians and Maggies in a blender, I would be fully content.... | |
| Modern Shahinian Obelisk I have some brand loyalty, so prefer to hear more about how the product has evolved (or not). I've owned 2 sets of Obelisk, Hawks, and "the Box" before, so am drawn to the Shahinian sound. The Hawks were my favorite, but they need to be played a l... | |
| Rowland Capri Phono It tool 300hrs before my Capri settled down, I then added phono cards and they seemed to be good from the start. I have not heard any significant change once they were warmed up for an hour or two. | |
| mcintosh vs jeff rowland I have owned a lot of Mac gear and love it for it's utilitarian approach. I have moved on to Jeff Rowland's products of late (a C500 and a 102/Capri pair) and am enjoying the transition. The Rowlands are a more relaxed and fluid sound, and offer u... | |
| Best Amp with Magnepan 3.6's Maggie 3.6R is a wonderful speaker, I drove mine with a Rowland Continuum 500. The bigger amp really made the bass tighten and go deep without any loss of mid/top sweetness. Jeff's new amps work great with Maggie loads. | |
| How are Rowland digital amps for Vandies The 102 is a wonderful amp, dead quiet and very smooth. I think the Vandies will work well. I have both a 102 and a C500. They share the same musical capability with the C500 only being able to deliver more bass and slam. | |
| Rowland Capri Preamp I find the Capri magical, I was using the ARC LS-9, and the Capri is much more musical and effortless. The amp has wonderful transparency and a nice controlled (but not muted) bass. Rowland products seem to "idle" through the music, never pushing. | |
| Levinson 383 or Rowland Continuum 500 I have a C500 driving a set of Duevel Bella-Lunas, and a 102/Capri pair driving a set of Duevel Venus. I love the sound of the "modern" Rowland amps, it is so smooth and effortless to my ears. These amps just seem to idle their way through the mus... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Duevel Jupiters... I love their smoothness, warmth and soundstage... | |
| Duevel Planets They are very nice and easy to drive. I have Bella-lunas and Jupiters and love them both... | |
| XM or Sirius Has anyone tried the new Directed/ Polk Audio SIRIUS tuner (SRH-1000)? Ive got the older SRH-500 and wonder if it's worth upgrading. | |
| Best stereo recievers of the 1970's? Oh yes, the HK 330c was a very nice piece of gear. That with a set of Infinity RS speakers was the deal. | |
| Duevel Planets - comments? I have both Venus and Bella Lunas; they are just great. If you like open, dynamic and smooth sound Duevel is the ticket. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Duevel Bella Lunas in a 14x14 room powered by TacT 2150. |