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| Best Integrated Amp You Ever Heard? Chapter Audio Precis 250S. I just took on the Chapter Audio line and am currently have this integrated in the system I use. Of course you can take this with a grain of salt since I disclosed that I'm a Chapter Audio dealer, but this piece is incre... | |
| Most Peaceful Music you've Heard or Own Pat Metheny - Quiet Night and anything by the Tord Gustavsen Trio | |
| Bel Canto left channel cutting out with distortion Wireless200, the new S500 and REF1000MKII are quite different from the earlier tripath based Bel Canto amps and a little different as well from even Bel Canto's first generation of IcePower amps such as the S300 and REF1000. The lastest amps, such... | |
| Bel Canto left channel cutting out with distortion Sorry to hear that a couple of you have had this issue with your eVo2i integrated amp. I've always had a soft spot for this piece. As a dealer I've had opportunity for a lot of different pieces to listen to in my system, but I always felt this one... | |
| Tired of HT Maineiac, I was referring more to the original poster's situation where he is using smaller fronts as mains. In your situation what you're doing would work well for sure. | |
| Tired of HT An good integrated amp with home theatre bypass is a great way to keep the 2-channel quality high in a combined system. The trickiest situation for most is how to deal with the sub. For me, I prefer to have the prepro or receiver set to a "no sub"... | |
| Praise for DacMagic I've had varying experiences with different transports with the DacMagic. On a very old Nak single disc player from a customer, the DacMagic made very little difference when I was expecting substantial difference. A Cambridge Audio 640C V2 was cle... | |
| Praise for DacMagic Stevenbell, I was just correcting and clarifying. I know you were trying to be helpful, so don't take it personally. Sam Tellig was apparently wrong if that's what he said. The DacMagic uses dual Wolfson DACs (the same ones as the 740C) and the 84... | |
| Praise for DacMagic Stevenbell, the DACs in the DacMagic are not the same as in the 840C, they are the same as in the 740C. Even if they were the same, that by no means says that the sound is identical. The type of DACs used are just one aspect of the sound. There's ... | |
| How can a subwoofer expand the soundstage? Roxy54 is on the right track. Notes at any particular frequency have both higher and lower harmonics. A system that isn't truly full range can't totally reproduce the lower harmonics. Adding a sub will allow reproduction of these harmonics which h... | |
| are all amps equal Being an Usher dealer, I know the BE-718's like power. But, you do have 150W into 8 ohms and 300 into 4 ohms, so that's not your weak point at all especially in your size of room which is similar to mine. Even more power would be better, but you'r... | |
| Denon 1650AR v Sony SACD XA777ES I don't have experience with the Sony SACD SA777ES, and as much as I'd hate to recommend anything Sony, it would have to be much better than the Denon. I demoed the Denon a long time ago before I became a dealer and had no idea why it was popular.... | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? Kijanki, I'll have to disagree with you. Upsampling DACs like the Benchmark and Bel Canto reduce the difference between the quality of transport, but the quality of the transport definitely still makes a difference.As a long time Bel Canto dealer ... | |
| Bel Canto DAC3 without preamp You're not losing at all, IMHO, but doing this. I am doing the same with Bel Canto DAC3 into Bel Canto REF1000 MkII monoblocks. I lost absolutely nothing (except additional gain, if it was ever required) from when I used to have a Bel Canto PRe2 i... | |
| Best Diana Krall album...........is??? Obviously, it has become popular to bash Krall, but not me. I have all of Diana Krall's CD's and like them all, although "Girl in the Other Room" is my least favourite of the batch. I really like "All for You", "Love Scenes", and the "Live in Pari... |