RE: Yes, prices are very high.

Posted by RGA (R) on March 7, 2015 at 06:16:13

In Reply to: Yes, prices are very high. posted by samtellig on March 1, 2015 at 08:33:18:

This is the problem I have - I want to hear the baby Reference here in Hong Kong but I have to buy it first. One advantage it has for a traveler like myself is that there is no worry over voltage.

The preamp I am leaning toward presently is the Audio Note M6 Phono and I know the Baby Reference is very good since Warren Jarrett caries the AN preamps as well as the Music First Line.

I am in the gleaning information stage - transparency tick versus the big body and full blooded dynamics of the active (additive or not - it's the end result). I can compare the AN's rather easily since the dealer in HK is their biggest. The M6 and Empress Silvers dropped my jaw - I wasn't expecting that from 2A3.

The MFA though would save some large dollars that I could put elsewhere. I have not been impressed with any passives in the past however - they have sounded thin, lacking dynamics and body and texture and colour - it sounds like an X-ray of the music. Lots of steal on the string and nothing else. And while some say they're open and that that X-Ray sound is more accurate it is headache inducing to me

The same terms used to describe SS and I can't think of a single solid state amplifier that truly does it for me.

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Topic - Ping Sam Tellig - bboroski 07:12:29 02/27/15 (27)

Musical Fatality?-- I remember them. nt - Des 02:23:25 03/06/15 (0)

RE: Ping Sam Tellig - fantja 16:20:33 03/01/15 (0)

Sorry but my memory is fading - samtellig 07:25:28 02/27/15 (24)

RE: thanks for the info - bboroski 11:47:48 02/27/15 (4)

Have you investigated getting the Proceed fixed? - John Marks 16:00:01 02/27/15 (3)

RE: Email sent. - bboroski 07:31:05 03/01/15 (0)

Good idea. Before you send it out for repair, though, take a Schiit, - samtellig 15:16:12 02/28/15 (1)

RE: Good idea. Before you send it out for repair, though, take a Schiit, - marc g. 07:02:40 03/07/15 (0)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Sprezza Tura 10:17:19 02/27/15 (17)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Awe-d-o-file 10:47:49 02/28/15 (4)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Sprezza Tura 18:29:53 02/28/15 (0)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - A.Wayne 11:07:52 02/28/15 (2)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Awe-d-o-file 20:32:38 03/07/15 (0)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Sprezza Tura 18:26:16 02/28/15 (0)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - A.Wayne 10:55:39 02/27/15 (11)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Sprezza Tura 11:38:19 02/27/15 (10)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - A.Wayne 13:05:13 02/27/15 (9)

RE: Sorry but my memory is fading - Sprezza Tura 16:32:29 02/27/15 (0)

I prefer a transformer volume control (TVC), like my Music First Baby Reference. - samtellig 13:51:45 02/27/15 (7)

RE: I prefer a transformer volume control (TVC), like my Music First Baby Reference. - Sprezza Tura 18:28:55 02/28/15 (6)

Yes, prices are very high. - samtellig 08:33:18 03/01/15 (5)

RE: Yes, prices are very high. - RGA 06:16:13 03/07/15 (0)

RE: Yes, prices are very high. - Sprezza Tura 08:40:01 03/01/15 (3)

RE: Yes, prices are very high. - soulfood 12:20:38 03/01/15 (2)

RE: Yes, prices are very high. - Sprezza Tura 12:33:09 03/01/15 (1)

RE: Yes, prices are very high. - soulfood 12:48:57 03/01/15 (0)

Thank you Tom for your honest, experienced, appraisal~nT - Cleantimestream 09:47:59 02/27/15 (0)

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