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| Help getting back to enjoying music and movies in one system If you want it to do both TV and music i would recommend to make sure it has HDMI Arc input. That will integrate a TV very easily. obviously, you'll need other digital/analog inputs for your other sources. Maybe out of your budget but all the n... | |
| McIntosh DS200 I would imagin if you needed a digital out you would not buy this product and buy thier streamer only product. this is a digital all on one system. digital preamp. so having a digital out seem redundant. its basicaly a MSA5500 without the amp sect... | |
| Tubes and Subwoofers Rel's prefered connection is via the hi level, speaker connection, for example. This is the way I have mine hooked up. Workes very well and no issue if its a tube amp. you also do not need to use the same taps as the speakers are on if thats a con... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound thats a nice collection of ADS speakers you have, selling any of them? | |
| 12au7 tube? check out my user profile in my system pictures i have a handy chart for small NOS 12XXX tube types with sound characteristics. its relivent for all of the 12xxx series tubes. | |
| A little puzzled by my newly acquired Yamaha A-S801 Also of note the volume possition can not be compaired from one peice of gear to another, thats a function of the various gain stages, volume pot taper, etc | |
| Advice for shipping from Canada to US? As a Canadian who has shipped to, and from, the USA many times I would recommend you use either the postal service or one of the reputable couriers like UPS etc. Also ask for shipping insurance, it makes the delivery require a signature so no l... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? I live close to three major cities on the west coast of Canada, Vancouver, Seattle and Victoria. All have good stations still. The Seattle based NPR jazz station is on almost every day. I found it took a good tuner to make the sound quality worth... | |
| Marianne Faithfull well thats a sad news she was a great artist. I love her live concert album. | |
| Jeff Rowland, what happened ? who knows, I lost respect for them when they started wrapping class D modules from another company in their fancy case work and charging ridiculous money. I’m not against class D in anyway, just against a company taking electronics from ano... | |
| VPI Scoutmaster Tonearm Upgrade Soren out of japan, better made then the Jeco's. | |
| Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover) Funkcronomicon Axium Funk. | |
| MBL C31 C51 Interconnects? thinking out loud here; If the unit's mentioned are a single ended design using balanced just adds more in the signal path, circite to convert from single ended to balanced and back. if you don't need balanced for long runs it maybe better single ... | |
| Schiit Freya plus (Tube) Preamp into McIntosh (SS) C53 preamp? I picked up a Dave used for $8500 Can$ so they are out there, and like you said not a whole lot of a stretch mind you the TT is probably the sweet spot in the line and 90% what a Dave gives. That said i sold the Dave to help pay for a house b... | |
| Schiit Freya plus (Tube) Preamp into McIntosh (SS) C53 preamp? I have a mac C2700 tube preamp with the DAC2 board and its quite good, but a Chord Dave showed where its laking as it should for the money. The Chord Qutest gives you a good chunck of the Daves sound so i'm betting its a sound sig thing at this pi... |