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In Reply to: Re: Magnepan Magneplanar MG12 Speakers posted by Pam on January 10, 2000 at 15:54:15:
thanks for the time, expertise and effort. I'm looking forward to getting the panels home. I'm a total tree stump when it comes to shopping for the amp, preamp & tuner. because of the limited amount of money I have to spend($1500). do you recommend going for used equipt? when I talk to people about a good receiver, they laugh. How about technic Amp. parasound etc? while they will never be confused with Conrad Johnson, krell etc. As you can see I need some sound (pun) advice..
Thanks
Hugh
Well, if you have a dealer who won't rip you off, or at least will give you a 30 day trial, then buying used equipment can be a very good way to go (audiophiles tend to take good care of equipment and if they have the $$$ they often tend to swap new equipment into their systems fairly often so some very good equipment can appear on the used market at much better prices than new... if you have an audio shop that seems to do a fast business, they might get in a lot of stuff in on trade-ups... occasionally something good might show up at a pawn shop, but not very often). Might also be good to look up the model numbers on used equipment (probably don't want something so old that it needs all the capacitors replaced, though I am using my 25 year-old Yamaha CA 610-2 integrated to drive an old set of mini Advent's as a computer sound system and it still sounds better than the plastic junk computer speakers at Best Buy). Technics? Probably not the best unless you're looking for a pro DAT/MD recorder or something. Parasound seems to have made a few nice amps. Hafler and Crown made some good and some bad amps (can never keep straight which model was good though). SAE made some good amps but they are out of business so repair could be a problem. While not audiophile, Yamaha did make some fairly decent AM/FM tuners and Dynaco made some nice tube pre-amps (my brother still uses one). You might check http://www.playitagainsam.com/ I've never dealt with them but you might get someone to wax nostalgic over various pieces of equipment to get some advice even if they don't have anything you might want at the moment. People here would probably be able to give some good advice too.
Thanks again, I'm in NYC and we have some pretty reputable dealers for used equipt, but then again, if its really good, its selling for close to list.
There is still some "new" carver amps available, I'm tempted for several reasons. Years ago I added an old c9 to a fisher (made in Brooklyn)receiver 504, and i use to driver people crazy when I played it thru a couple Ohm 8's. BC's ribbon speakers were pretty decent Now with my 1.6 maggies I don't want to underpower and I have to stay within a $1500. budget. The Carver A760 & CT 28 might be good for ME.. what do you think?
Hugh
Not familiar with Carver's so I can't help you there. I know a lot of people run HT systems with them hooked to Nak-AV10s, Yammie DSP-A1's, Denons and Rotel surround recievers, so, depending on how loud you want to play them, you could get by on something that is stable with 4 ohm loads and pumps out 150+ watts should work. Some people drive them with 40 watt tube amps and love them.... best just to make sure the amp can drive 4 ohm loads and try it out.
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