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| Help for my return to vinyl -- $2K rig. Thought i made it clear I need the total cost of turntable + cartridge + phono stage to be under $2K. These suggestions are all close to or over $2k without the phono stage, and some of them will still need a cartridge after that. The Shindo versi... | |
| Help for my return to vinyl -- $2K rig. Thanks for your thoughts. The Line Magnetic and Merlins do make for a pretty resolving pair that won't suffer a subpar front end very well. I'm thinking forbearance might be the better part of valor here. May have to wait till next year.OTOH, I do... | |
| Cary 306/200 -- Still near state of the art? Now that's what I'm talking about-- ask a question, get an answer that's perfectly on point. Thanks CGW. Of course, if anyone else wants to chime in, I'd be glad for more input. | |
| Cary 306/200 -- Still near state of the art? Need to bump this-- never got much in the way of responses. Now I'm looking (along with everyone else, it seems) at the Oppo BDP-83se. Wonder if anyone has an informed opinion as to whether the Oppo would be as satisfying a redbook player as the C... | |
| New York City Speaker Cable Retermination Beautiful-- I know Canal Audio and live close by. Love the guys at Singer but the idea was to avoid undue expense . . .Thanks! | |
| Small Floorstander/Monitor good with tubes I should clarify-- I went with the TSM-MME. | |
| Small Floorstander/Monitor good with tubes A bit of a leap of faith, since it's hard for me to hear these speakers first, but I found a good pair at a decent price. Will let you know how it turns out.Thanks for all who responded.D | |
| NOS tubes for Sonic Frontiers Line 1 I like amperex holland orange globes in my line 1-- they beat out mullards, valvos, bugle boys, and 50s amperex D getters in my system.Haven't tried the PQs, siemens or teles, but I've got two sets of orange globes in V1-V4 and the quietest valvos... | |
| Arcam FMJ CD33 vs Cary 306/200 I had the exact same experience at Sound by Singer as Audphile1. Came out LOVING the A5, and intend to purchase it as soon as I can. The Arcam has a very forward presentation that I agree might be too much for rock and jazz, better for classical, ... | |
| How good is the Musical Fidelity A5? A5 is Extremely good. I spent an hour or so A/B testing the A5 against the Cary 303 and the Arcam 33 and the A5 was by far the most musical.System was MF's KW Integrated into JM Lab Micro Utopia BE.I simply dislike Arcam's forward presentation. TH... | |
| Any experience with the Esoteric UX-1 I did a heads up comparison on SACD and Redbook between the UX-1 and the MF KW SACD Player ($7K) and the MF was much more musical, IMO. THe UX-1 was more detailed-- for example, I listened to a 1960's recording of Stravinsky conducting his own Rit... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Line 1 with Solid State Power Amp I use a Parasound HCA 806, 6 channel SS amp with my Line 1 into Totem Rokk speakers. I like the combination a lot. | |
| Power Cable Choices for Pre, Power Amps Auaarons, I ended up following your suggestion and went with the power 3's for my power and preamp. I'm looking forward to getting them.Thx for all the advice. D | |
| Power Cable Choices for Pre, Power Amps Thanks for the input michael, but my cdp power cord is hardwired. | |
| Do you play an instrument/sing? I studied classical piano, sang off-broadway, taught myself guitar and played in bands all over New York. Being a musician has absolutely affected the way I approach audio. First, from making my own recordings, both on puny 4-tracks and in big stu... |