loomisjohnson
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| Keep Adcom GFP-750 or Replace i would not sink more $$ into your adcom--for your stated budget you can find a nice parasound, ps audio or the like which should be a significant upgrade. the rogue also looks very compelling (i like their power amps), tho i haven't heard it myself. | |
| Oppo Ceasing production if only because there are so many billions of discs existing in the world there will be a decent-sized legacy market for physical media for the immediate future. however, i'd expect that market to shrink very quickly-- it's unusual to find a kid ... | |
| A Budget Amp Comparison fwiw, i picked up the sherwood 4105 receiver touted by michaelgreen ($19.99 on ebay) and it is a good sounding piece--impressively transparent, with good low end control and little of the brittle "digital" quality of typical low end ss gear. | |
| B&K Sonata M200 + Polk Rti A9’s i would expect a night-and-day difference, both because you m200s are more powerful and because they're higher-quality amps than those in your avr, which have compromised power supplies, less robust transformers, etc. typically i'd expect more lo... | |
| B&K Sonata M200 + Polk Rti A9’s i have the m200s ($450 is an excellent price btw) and they will be more than enough for your polks and a whole different level than your avr. | |
| What are the best entry level integrated amps and speakers? per roberjman, yamaha makes a very nice integrated--accessories4less has great prices on yamaha 501, 701, etc. (as well as on comparable onkyo and marantz, which are quite serviceable). they also discount focal and canton speakers, which would pai... | |
| Well now... 400$ Mark Levinson amp new... i can't address this particular clone, but from my experience with high-end headphones you should not underestimate the resourcefulness and genius of these chifi manufacturers--i've heard dirt-cheap knockoffs of expensive sennheiser, shure, etc. w... | |
| too bad Audiogon seems to have morphed to fussy, picky buyers to paraphrase winston churchill, agon is the worst system for sellers except for all the others--ebay is a total crapshoot and craigslist is overwhelmed by lowballers and outright scammers. from my experience, the substantial majority of buyers he... | |
| Energy Veritas 2.2 you see them on canuck audio quite frequently | |
| If You Like Brian Eno and My Bloody Valentine ... astewart, i gave kraus a listen--it's pretty well executed, but very, very derivative of my bloody valentine and somewhat unvarying in approach from song to song. i am a fan of the shoegaze genre and hope to see him develop more of his own voice ... | |
| Streaming Audio - Yamaha WXC-50 looks like a helluva product for $349--full preamp/dac functions + wifi streaming. will look out for reviews. | |
| Sunday Morning Suggestions? slaw, on your advise i listened to carry the ghost--it's good (very reminiscent of damien rice/j tillman)--much more subdued than his newer one, white noise, which is louder/heavier and closer in approach to elliott smith | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report swervedriver, raise--their (very good) latter releases are likened to shoegaze peers like my bloody valentine and ride, but this debut is much closer to the overamped roar of dinosaur jr. or the stooges. despite the frenzy, they have a great sense... | |
| Sunday Morning Suggestions? slaw, a couple of new names on your list--noah gunderson sounds interesting. thanks. | |
| Trouble in Fleetwood Mac....... kiln house was my favorite too (future games being second best)--it was the transition between the peter green blues era and the later pop stuff. danny kirwan was an underrecognized genius and his songs like "dust" and "jewel eyed judy" are classics. |