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| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! @jbhiller The room is good sized, and it has the added advantage of not being square. The listening area is 21x12.5, but it's open to a dining room behind which is an additional 12.5x9. So far I haven't dared push the Sony (100wpc) above 75% vol... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! Which I just called and placed an order for. He's running about a 3-week backlog right now, so it'll probably be May before I get them, but I'm enjoying them enough right now that I don't mind waiting. | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! @jb505 That's the beauty. The Denon HEOS can be run both fixed and variable out. So it can serve as a preamp while I take my time and find the perfect pre to mate with the Horn Mono pair. | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! @Whiteknee (not sure why this works for some users but not others...)"Are you using your Sony’s tone controls or loudness feature to get your current ‘great’ sound?"I am not using the loudness feature, and the only tone adjustment I made was +3dB ... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! @jbhiller One fortunate thing about the Denon HEOS is that is can run either fixed or variable line output - so I can make the move on the power stage and wait until I've settled on the perfect pre. So you're saying you'd do the Carver 275 over t... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! Whatever you choose to power them optimizing the internals of the speakers will increase the apparent sound quality by as much a 50%. Putting in the best polypropylene capacitors (top Wimas are recommended) & Vishay resistors will do wonders... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! I too went down a similar journey and found that a pre-owned Peachtree Nova 150 did the trick until I could afford to build the front end I really wanted. Lived with it for 2 years and it's really good for the money @ $800-$1000 used. It has a... | |
| From the Batmobile to highend electronics If you know your house wiring is questionable, and you can ascertain background noise in your system when no signal is being put through it, a good power isolator is a perfectly logical investment. I have a medical-grade power isolator for my gea... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! And having a DAC that also handles Bluetooth means I don't need to worry about having Bluetooth capability in the Pre. Seems like a win-win to me, being able to focus exclusively on SQ in my pre... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! Hideous. Look, the last thing you want to do on a budget is throw money away on absolute crap. It's a DAC that also handles Bluetooth. I do need a DAC here. Why is it hideous? | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! Don’t care what anyone will say but you can’t do HT and two channel with one system without major compromises to the two channel sound. Even if you have to plug and unplug the speakers for the different applications keep they systems separate. T... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! For that price, get the best integrated you can afford and pair it with a Pi Streamer or Pi Streamer/DAC if the integrated does not have a DAC. If you want a bit of tube-ishness consider something with a tube preamplifier. Ditch the Bluetooth. C... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! Then again, if you're expecting audiophile equipment to be sold by those platforms it's probably worth looking online elsewhere (i.e. Audiogon to start Which is why I went first to the Klipsch forums, then here, after the shock of trying to sor... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! BTW - didn't mean to gloss over this one, just been mobile most of the afternoon/evening and am only now back on the laptop - lastly if your speakers are original consider updating the tweeter and crossovers huge improvements here. Bob Crites is... | |
| Dream Speakers = landed. Now I need to feed them! So yeah, now I'm thinking my next move is to pull the trigger on the Cambridge DAC and the Dared integrated unit, then wait for the (much larger than I expected) tax check to come back to pop the QS blocks. |