gliderguider
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| Tube amp to match sensitive Living Voice Speakers What about an 845 SET amp like the deHavilland Aries? I had one and it was delicious. Or maybe their GM70? I also think a 300B SET like the Welborne DRD mentioned above would be nice. I think Canary makes great gear too. I have a pair of the big C... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE As I mentioned above, I've changed from Coincident Total Victories to Fab Audio Model 1, now supplemented by a pair of ACI Titan subs. I discovered that there were better speakers out there, but I just hadn't heard them yet. The Fabs are faster, m... | |
| Your "DREAM" piece A Blowtorch. Still just a dream...An AudioNote DAC 5.1x Signature to run into it. | |
| Argent Audio BOBS I've had a pair on my Fab Audio Model 1 speakers for about a week now. They work beautifully. They give my speakers more of the electrostatic purity I covet without reducing their detail or dynamics at all. I heard them on one other lower resoluti... | |
| Amazing ''Overachieving'' products...your pick? Harvey Rosenberg's SuperIt phono stage. Wow.The Morrison ELAD - I'm still new to it, but to get this kind of performance and build quality in a sub-$800 line stage is just outrageous. | |
| Best Component Ever, for the money Harvey Rosenberg's SuperIt phono stage. I bought one used for about $100 back in the late 80's, hot-rodded it and used it with good Grados for years. What a delight - slightly warm but natural sound, lots of detail, not finicky about the tubes I f... | |
| Is Preamp overkill for me? Proper impedance matching and making sure there's enough current available for good dynamics seem to be the two things an active preamp is most useful for. I've used a transformer based passive for about a year, and have been very happy with it. I... | |
| If Audio bug never hit you, what hobby might have? Same for me as Jameswei - photography - and for the same reasons. If I'm feeling active I go out and shoot. If I'm feeling sedentary I stay home and spin tunes. Interestingly, I used to be a died-in-the-wool analog guy in both hobbies, but am now ... | |
| Ottawa, Ontario The latest get-together involved listening to folk and blues through my newish Fab Model 1 speakers driven by Wavelength Triton Blue 300B amps and a pair of ACI Titan subs. The sound was very nice - open and clean with a firm, well-integrated foun... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Abe_av, I drove the 540 for five years, so I don't feel too hard done by in the entertainment department. On the conservation side - I know the feeling that our individual consumption is a drop in the bucket compared to the industrial requirements... | |
| Best Dac/Transport Under 50,000 From out in left field comes the obligatory AudioNote suggestion. If I had $50K to spend I'd look hard at the DAC5 Special and the new CDT Two MkII transport, at a combined total of only $36,375. I know these don't have the Audiogon cachet of the ... | |
| The best passive preamp Anything with real transformers, as opposed to autoformers, should work. The TX102 trannies in the Bent have an input impedance of 10K to 250M ohms. They should have very little problem with any real-world source impedance. This is in marked contr... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? I've recently undergone an attitude-ectomy. I just traded in my 2000 BMW 540i/6, and in its place I'm driving a 2001 VW Jetta TDI. I decided that doing my bit to save the planet was more important than being BMOC. The new ride is even running on b... | |
| COINCIDENT total Victory or AERIAL 9 ? I've used the Total Victory for about two years, but have not heard the Aerial. They look technically somewhat similar, which means little of course. The TV is somewhat more sensitive and has higher impedance, so if you want to use lower powered t... | |
| What music would you like at your funeral? "The Swan" and "Ave Maria" played by a live violinist, A Bach Cello Suite and finally the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's 9th as people are leaving. |