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Gear / Technical Help => Playback Forum => Topic started by: Nick's Picks on May 07, 2005, 12:50:42 PM
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lets play make believe.
3 budgets. see what you can put together. dont forget cables!
$1,500
$5,000
$10,000
ready...
set ?
GO!
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I will need the $10,000 by thursday.
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i should just list my whole system, because i found it all on audiogon (except the benchmark which came from nutter)
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I will need the $10,000 by thursday.
good one!
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lets play make believe.
3 budgets. see what you can put together. dont forget cables!
$1,500
$5,000
$10,000
ready...
set ?
GO!
B&W CDM 9NT Dark Cherry $1400
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1120441929
Audio Research VT100 MKIII $3600
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstube&1117982625
Musical Fidelity A3.2 CD 3 month old demo with full warranty $1100
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlplay&1118698338
can't decide on a preamp.
marc
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VMPS elixir's...drool
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1119423373
Manley stingray upgraded
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstube&1120427063
Shunyata speaker cables
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?cablspkr&1120660326
Screw the rest, I am out of money and still need a dac, power cables, isolation stands, more tubes, a power conditioner, speakers stands...
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VMPS elixir's...drool
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1119423373
Manley stingray upgraded
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstube&1120427063
Shunyata speaker cables
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?cablspkr&1120660326
Screw the rest, I am out of money and still need a dac, power cables, isolation stands, more tubes, a power conditioner, speakers stands...
I'm not sure that cryro-treating a vacuum tube is what Manley would call an "upgrade."
I think an m902 >>Stingray or Mahi-Mahi >> [TBD] may well be my future system.
Test driving Soliloquys and Dynaudios this weekend. Dealer doesn't have VonSchwiekerts, so no ABx comparisons.... :P
I wonder if a Stingray will drive the VonSchwiekerts to blissdom ? Nick ?
Don't have enough time to so the pricepoint game, dang it ! Next rainy weekend.....
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Hey!
that is my plan. get your own.
;-)
902 > snapper monos > vr4s.
in your FACE tube sound. And w/the punchyness of the Grace matched with the ballsy manley sound...
man, that is going to rock out.
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Hey!
that is my plan. get your own.
;-)
902 > snapper monos > vr4s.
in your FACE tube sound. And w/the punchyness of the Grace matched with the ballsy manley sound...
man, that is going to rock out.
OK, I'm thinking BM DAC-1 >> Mahi-Mahi or Stinger instead now.
Flat and clean DAC warmed up a bit by the "tubier" Manleys.
Smaller room sizes here, no need for bigger, higher spl speaks. Easier on the budget, too.
So far I'm liking the Soliloquy 5.3s (good call, Moke!) and am waiting to find a smaller Dynaudio tower to audition.
Snappers are supposed to be very clean and flat for tube amps.
I haven't heard them. Nor have I found a NYC area dealer with them yet....
So perhaps a question.....if a well designed tube amp never tops, is clean, and has flat response, how do you know it's a tube amp ?
When a 10wpc SE tops, the drums don't thump. Instead they sound kinda like "thah-whapth"- what I guess is a product of tube compression/ rounded-clipping.
I'm sure that I hear the tube sweetness in the midrange. Vocals, piano, and strings become holographic.
(listening to the Kentucky Colonels Apalachian Swing remastered CD actually placed them in the center of my living room)
With 100 wpc, clean as a whistle, how can you hear the tubes vs. a top-end 150watt SS amp like a Krell or Levinson?
Will I loose the spacial affects from tube distortions by going high-power/high-end ?