gbmcleod
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| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane MK1 vs MK2 uh... typos galore.Corrections:"The low bass is terrific on its own, surpassed by, I hear [I haven't actually heard them myself] the big VTL Sigfrieds (at, KEEP this in mind, $40,0000). So, now it takes $40,000 to have low bass that VTL once could... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane MK1 vs MK2 This is a response a little late to the party about reliability, but very simialar to many other owners' experiences.One of my amps did not work out of the box, but was repaired locally. After that, it functioned fine for several years, but then d... | |
| Cambridge 740c or Rega Apollo with Linn and Sonus I agree with Phill that the Cambridge's strongest dynamics are not in the bass. While it HAS bass kick, it doesn't bulge out at you - or perhaps I should say it doesn't launch a wavefront of great power at you. The 840, and from what I read recent... | |
| Usher 718BE or Dynaudio S1.4 The Ushers are rather sensitive to room placement. And I would not say the mid-bass is overblown, but i might suggest the upperbass/lower midrange might be with certain placements.I have 718s, non-BE, and my experience is that, in a room that is r... | |
| Parasound Halo JC2 As Audiobrooke kept his unit, he may have a clearer sense of the unit's performance. I would, however, point out that the Presence Deluxe is not exactly a "tube unit" in the traditional sense. It is more akin to a solid-state unit in its presentat... | |
| Cambridge 840c vs. Bryston BCD-1 vs. Ayre CX-7e I would not, personally, put the Droplet ahead of the Cambridge unless you like fuzzy sound. I once reviewed the Droplet, and found it warm, fuzzy and not terribly pure sounding, as though all the instruments had a halo around it. I noticed one of... | |
| Transparent MM2 The Ultra MM2 speaker cable is pretty darn good. I can only imagine what the reference is like. The lack of grain moving from MM1 Super was laugh-out-loud shocking...and much better dynamics. Much, MUCH better than the MM1s. | |
| Current Faves that "Swing"? I wouldn't say that the disc determines the sound, Jaybo. I would say that the hardware, to use a common phrase, 'gets out of the way' and allows the disc to shine through. Shadorne's comment is, of course, quite right: dynamics, both micro and ma... | |
| Parasound Halo JC2 I had a JC-2 for a nearly a month.I found that, out of the box, the preamp had high resolution, and sounded musical, but it was, for me, too lightweight in the midbass through lower midrange, which resulted in a presentation that was thinner than ... | |
| Cambridge 740c or Rega Apollo with Linn and Sonus A furthur thought: people sell things not because the item itself isn't superior to what they have, but sometimes because it doesn't SOUND like what they want it to sound like. People talk about "more bass" as though it means something, when it si... | |
| Nordost Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma? I've had all three: the Brahma is the most solid of the 3 with much more weight than the other two. | |
| Vincent Amps To clarify, I did NOT have the Vincent monoblocks, I had the integrated. | |
| Any exp. w/ Shunyata Dark Field Cable Elevators Well, the truth is...I don't hear THAT much of a difference with them, but I only got the 4 pack, and not the 12 pack. I do hear some difference, mostly in clarity, but I'd have to wait a bit longer to be sure. Davt seems to have a clearer perspec... | |
| Cambridge 840c or Pioneer PD-65/Benchmark DAC 1 I had a Benchmark. I think it was clearer than the Cambridge (from memory), but not terribly dimensional, a bit cool, and lacking the soul of music, although, again, QUITE a bit of clarity to it. Robert E. Greene loves it, though. I never quite wa... | |
| Top 5 sounding cd player in the 1000-2000$ range Rega Apollo, Cambridge 840C...I have both, and find the Cambridge having noticeably more low-level resolution, plus the highs are quite eye-opening. NOW, having said that, the Cambridge is just a little bit "contained," meaning the sound does not ... |