slaw3
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| New tube preamp Ait,I have not, can't find one (or much of anything else) here in HiFi dry Arizona. What are your impressions? I've heard good things about the Modwright....One other way cool think about the AI M3A is a wonderful phono stage is included! | |
| I've come to the realization... I agree about the Cardas speaker cables - they present lots of details and a superb soundstage without the etched high end many cables have.I have just switched speakers (to non-bi-wireable) and changed my cables from my bi-wire Cross in 3 meters ... | |
| New tube preamp The Audible Illusions 3A smokes anything else near it for anywhere under $3K. But don't waste your $$ on the AI Model 3 -it's a totally different pre, and is not worth $800. Get the 3A, you won't regret it!For a lot less $$, the Eastern Electric M... | |
| Phono stage as good as CJPV-11? Hi!You didn't say how old your PV11 is, but I'm guessing you've had it for awhile. I tried the same thing with my admittedly lower priced PV10 - I used it as a phono preamp into my various line stages by utilizing the tape outs.I have to say, I bo... | |
| Threshold of a Dream SACD Threshold is in the original "Quad", no center channel. But still great! | |
| New Beatles Box Sets Hi Zaik,For CDs from a sonic standpoint, I recommend The White Album, the anniversary edition if you can find it; Abbey Road is OK, the Japanese import is better but more $$. Otherwise, the rest are pretty bad sonically. | |
| Looking For High Quality Drum Music. One more for you - Bill Bruford's World Drummers Ensemble -A Coat of Many Colors. Unbelieveable drumming, as always with anything associated with Bill Bruford. Also, Burning for Buddy, a tribute to Buddy Rich with Bruford, Neil Peart, etc is outst... | |
| Amp for harder music with lots of sounds. I'm driving my Nuforce Reference 9s hard with lots of electronica w/vocals (Imogen Heap, Autamata, Venus Hum), and progressive rock (Flower Kings, OSI, Dream Theatre) and they are resolving all the musical lines of this complicated and dense music... | |
| Best DAC $1000 and under used My recommends:* looking for analog or tube type sound in a bright system where your CD playback needs some warmth and body? The Ack! dAck! can't be beat.* looking for detailed and neutral sound in an already warm or full bodied system? The Benchma... | |
| New Beatles Box Sets Hey Zaikesman: I don't disagree, the versions you grew up with ARE the versions for you, and that makes good sense to me. I was lucky enough to have an British friend who sent me the "real" versions whenI was a kid, so I never listened to the Amer... | |
| Amp s to drive JM Lab Diva Utopia Be I 2nd heartily the Nuforce recommendation - they are wonderful amps that will make your speakers sing! | |
| New Beatles Box Sets Well, for what it's worth, these are the American "Capitol" remixes of the original Beatles songs. In many cases, extra reverb and/or delay/echo was added to "Americanize" the songs for airplay here in the USA by Capitol records. The song order wa... | |
| Anyone heard Harbeth HL5s with Nuforce? This is a fantastic combination - heard it at an audio friends and bought teh Nuforces for my Audio Physic Virgos. Clear, clean and transparant as all get out, with bass slam that will suprise you. Go for it - there's nothing better at this price ... | |
| Thoughts on AES DJH signature preamp I auditioned the heck out of one of these against an Eastern Electric MiniMax, and an Audible Illusions 3A (used, of course) and I bought the Minimax, which I'm still in love with. Sweet and slam in one package - it's a great preamp! The AES sound... | |
| Preamp Recommendations for Parasound Halo JC-1's? Save some dough over the big expensive preamps and get an Eastern Electric Mini-max. Incredible tube preamp - high end detail with glowing midrange, and you can tube roll at will. Believe it or not it matched up favorably with the Hovland 100 in m... |