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| Oppo 980 or Sony 9100ES or Denon 3910 as transport And to expand on what Bob said, Rega invested a small fortune into co-engineering a new CD drive for their new players instead of switching to an off-the-shelf DVD drive. For a small company to go to such great lengths and take a significant finan... | |
| Budget AV Receiver with Magnepan My Blu-Ray player only outputs 1080p through the HDMI, and I think that's the case with all players. So if you want HD, you have to use an HDMI connection. Otherwise, you'll have to live with 480p. | |
| Budget AV Receiver with Magnepan All the more reason to try the Denon first. Who cares if it blows up? Better to use it as a guinea pig. See how hard you need to run it, whether it heats up, blows up, whatever, and then use the results to help choose how much power (and transform... | |
| Herbie's mat with NAD 533 Glad it worked out for you. I owned a P2 years ago and it was a big jump when I replaced the MDF platter with glass. | |
| Oppo 980 or Sony 9100ES or Denon 3910 as transport On the high end -- I would think any of the single-disc players from Marantz, and especially the Marantz Reference Series, would be good. If you can swing a used Sony SCD-777ES, that would be a nice buy as well but even used that's big bucks. The ... | |
| Budget AV Receiver with Magnepan I haven't found Maggies to be as difficult to drive as they are reputed to be, at least the smaller models anyway. My guess would be that any of the receivers you mentioned, except for the NAD T744, would be adequate. As far as sound goes, MAYBE t... | |
| Shelter 201 cartridge versus Ortofon 2M Blue Let me clarify: State-of-the-art at the $200 price point. | |
| Shelter 201 cartridge versus Ortofon 2M Blue I just got a review sample of the 2M Blue and it's only been a few days but I can tell you that it is state of the art. It does, however, have a revealing treble which may come across as bright depending on your speakers. It's definitely a contend... | |
| Spades or bananas connectors? Bananas for me. They are more practical and after years of trying different connectors, I can hear zero difference between the two. | |
| Oppo 980 or Sony 9100ES or Denon 3910 as transport My bias against DVD players as transports has only about a 50% technical basis, though I've heard rational arguments against as well as for. It just boils down to my own personal bias based on experience with both.The main reason why I don't like ... | |
| Any cheap tweaks for cheap turntable? No offense, but that is a really rotten turntable and I'm not even sure it's suitable for your purpose. Some DJ decks have short arms designed for scratching and they can potentially damage your LPs when used with a hi-fi cartridge.The other issue... | |
| Oppo 980 or Sony 9100ES or Denon 3910 as transport Personally, I don't think anything with a DVD drive should be used as a transport. I would look for one of the older Sony ES or Pioneer Elite CD players, especially if you can find one of the "Stable Platter" models. Marantz and Denon also made so... | |
| Herbie's mat with NAD 533 Rega doesn't allow much in the way of discounts so call any Rega dealer and ask. The Sound Organisation in TX is their US distributor -- they should be able to point you to a local dealer. | |
| Kimber Kable 8TC vs Audio Art SC-5 dilema ? If you're planning to upgrade your system in the near future -- say, a year or two -- it makes sense to buy some decent wire. Cables generally have cruddy resale value, so better to spend a few bucks now on wire you can use in the years to come ra... | |
| Kimber Kable 8TC vs Audio Art SC-5 dilema ? Both are solid cables at the end of the day, they're not going to make or break your system. It's not a component, it's wire -- the cherry on top of a really synergistic system.The only real way to answer your question is to get hold of both and t... |