sugarbrie
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| Best CD changer...as a transport? For not a lot of money Harmon Kardon makes CD Changers with Digital outputs. Only one I've heard. There are others such as Rotel RCC-945 & RCC-955. The 955 has HDCD, so may outperform your DAC with those CDs. | |
| Best Used Tube Preamp (under $750)? Ditto on Conrad Johnson PV-10A. Anthem pretty good also. | |
| best integrated under 2k Audio Refinement Complete @ $1K - Clone of YBA Integre DT @ $2K I mentioned before which will still do. There is a non "DT" version of YBA Integre DT at about $1.6K. (DT stands for Dual Transformer). All are 50 watt/CH. What kind of small bookshel... | |
| best integrated under 2k Audio Refinement Complete @ $1K - Clone of YBA Integre DT @ $2K I mentioned before which will still do. There is a non "DT" version of YBA Integre DT at about $1.6K. (DT stands for Dual Transformer). All are 50 watt/CH. What kind of small bookshel... | |
| Integrated amp for less than 2k YBA Integre DT | |
| Best Rotel RCD-990 CD Player. Also a rare unit after Phillips stopped making the CDM-9 Pro metal transport after Rotel only made a small quantitly of this great player. See Stereophile Vol. 20, Nos 1. & 3. | |
| B&W CDM 9 NT Anyone listend to these? Definitely any CDM NT model over the SE version. The original CDM 1 beats the SE version also easily (7 slightly better). | |
| Tuner Advice. Help a lost soul. Both the Creek T43 mentioned and the Cambridge Audio clone (Yes, Mike Creek did design both) interestingly use a high end car stereo chipset. Mike discovered they had better reception and sounded better than most digital tuner stuff. Go to http://... | |
| Record cleaner recs? I do not know if they still make it (think so) but there was/is a 3 step system made by a company named "Last". One bottle is a deep cleaning fluid, then a preservative fluid and then a regular daily cleaner. I use to have it and was very satisfied. | |
| Record cleaner recs? Once you get any crap off with the above stuff, a cheap way to clean them before each play is the Discwasher D4 Cleaner and fluid. | |
| Anyone heard Motif Amps done by CJ Never listened to the Motif Pre and Power Amps together. Still have the Motif MC-8 Preamp linked to the CJ MF2100 Power Amp. | |
| Tuner Advice. Help a lost soul. A used Onkyo "Integra" T9090 or T9090MkII tuner will cost you around $350 to $600 used depending on condition. Great tuner. All Onkyo "Integra" Tuners sound very good. Other than those two the others can be found for between $75 and $150 used. The... | |
| what is a " b " stock amp ? Some are factory "refurbished" which could also mean all of the above also. I actually purchased a refurbished item once that was never refurbished (broken part). Fell through the cracks or something. The manufacturer was so embarassed they replac... | |
| Opinion Conrad Johnson Solid state Amps I see you asked about Motif also. My current system is a Motif Preamp and MF Power Amp | |
| Opinion Conrad Johnson Solid state Amps The Premier 11a is a tube amp and the MF2500 is solid state, so the one did not replace the other. Actually the 11a is newer. Anyway, the MF Solid State Amps are excellent in my opinion. Very musical and realistic. They do a great job with vocals.... |