JiiEf
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I'm getting slowly more and more fed up with the channel imbalances in my Cambridge amp. I originally planned to save for a Rega or Arcam (thanks to the tips in a previous thread - I love you guys!), but the balance tweaking is getting so insufferable I'm thinking of getting a short-term solution while I wait for gainful employment
Two local hifi stores have recommended the Harman Kardon HK 970 to me, and I got to hear it at one. Unfortunately the audition was extremely disappointing, but I'm not sure if it was due to the artificially smooth Marantz (a CD-17MKII KI or vanilla, IIRC) that really took the square out of square-bass, if you get my meaning
I could probably get one to home if I really tried, but I wanted to check if any of you guys had an insight into this? I'm not looking for the ultimate audio Nirvana, but something that would be a bit more user friendly than my current Cambridge (the HK has really good solid looking speaker binding posts, so that would at least take care of my other beef with the Cambridge).
Thanks in advance (again)
/JF
p.s. I never seem to make up my mind if speaker amps should go to here or amps... or to another forum
Two local hifi stores have recommended the Harman Kardon HK 970 to me, and I got to hear it at one. Unfortunately the audition was extremely disappointing, but I'm not sure if it was due to the artificially smooth Marantz (a CD-17MKII KI or vanilla, IIRC) that really took the square out of square-bass, if you get my meaning
I could probably get one to home if I really tried, but I wanted to check if any of you guys had an insight into this? I'm not looking for the ultimate audio Nirvana, but something that would be a bit more user friendly than my current Cambridge (the HK has really good solid looking speaker binding posts, so that would at least take care of my other beef with the Cambridge).
Thanks in advance (again)
/JF
p.s. I never seem to make up my mind if speaker amps should go to here or amps... or to another forum