Hello all,
If you've read my earlier post "Bose & Wilkins," you'll know that I ran into a thread over at AVS that was bad mouthing (kind of) both McIntosh and B&W.
In my mind, both of these companies make products that unarguably very good. But, I guess this hobby is such that, for every unarguable truth, there are many watingin in line to argue it out.
So I ask you... Are there ANY components (speakers, amps, pres, whatever) out there that are UNIVERSALLY accepted as being "good." Whatever the criteria, whatever the standards.. Everyone knows them as being, well... "good."
Here are my votes:
Power amps (SS): Pass Labs X1000.5
Power amps (Tube): Audio Research D250 MK II (Sparky, stop gloating!)
Integrated Amp: ML No. 383 Integrated Amp
Pre: Can't think of any that stand a chance being universally accepted
Speakers: B&W Nautilus Snail, Focal JM Labs Grand Utopia.
Any others come to mind?
Fauzi
If you've read my earlier post "Bose & Wilkins," you'll know that I ran into a thread over at AVS that was bad mouthing (kind of) both McIntosh and B&W.
In my mind, both of these companies make products that unarguably very good. But, I guess this hobby is such that, for every unarguable truth, there are many watingin in line to argue it out.
So I ask you... Are there ANY components (speakers, amps, pres, whatever) out there that are UNIVERSALLY accepted as being "good." Whatever the criteria, whatever the standards.. Everyone knows them as being, well... "good."
Here are my votes:
Power amps (SS): Pass Labs X1000.5
Power amps (Tube): Audio Research D250 MK II (Sparky, stop gloating!)
Integrated Amp: ML No. 383 Integrated Amp
Pre: Can't think of any that stand a chance being universally accepted
Speakers: B&W Nautilus Snail, Focal JM Labs Grand Utopia.
Any others come to mind?
Fauzi
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