Welcome the the HiFi Miser Forum:
This will be a sub forum to discuss great sounding, feature rich audio products that are priced under $1500.
There are so many great products available now both from small artisanal one man shops but also from
larger entities who can use economies of scale.
Right now I am reviewing a Network Receiver from Marantz, the M-CR611, that costs $699.
It streams music via WiFi, Ethernet, and Bluetooth, receives AM/FM, has analog inputs, digital inputs, iDevice USB input,
does Pandora, Sirius, and Spotify, can drive two sets of speakers, and offers 60 wpc.
It also has a CD transport built in!!
Best of all, it sounds really good.
I also just reviewed a passive preamp from Tilbury Audio, the Mini Passive II, hand built in a workshop
in London that offers 3 configurable inputs and two configurable outputs. Real wood face plate with
laser engraved aluminum case work. $129 British Pounds!!
http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-p...udio-mini-passive-ii-preamplifier-review.html
In the coming months I will have an open baffle speaker costing $1295 speaker coming in from Spatial Audio, and
the Berning MicroZOTL 2.0 tubed preamp/headphone amp, costing $1100.
My office system is the “lab” I use to run my Miser Experiments. Right now I have the $800 CLONES Audio 25p power
amp, a Carver Black Magic tube amp, the above mentioned Tilbury passive, the $500 iFi Micro iDSD DAC, with the $499
Micro iUSB 3.0, the $499 SOtM server, several reel to reels I paid under $500 for, and I just ordered a pair of Magnepan MMGs, for $600.
Some basic rules
-Please NO disparaging of more costly, exotic equipment.
-Manufactures, Reps, and Dealers welcome welcome
This will be a sub forum to discuss great sounding, feature rich audio products that are priced under $1500.
There are so many great products available now both from small artisanal one man shops but also from
larger entities who can use economies of scale.
Right now I am reviewing a Network Receiver from Marantz, the M-CR611, that costs $699.
It streams music via WiFi, Ethernet, and Bluetooth, receives AM/FM, has analog inputs, digital inputs, iDevice USB input,
does Pandora, Sirius, and Spotify, can drive two sets of speakers, and offers 60 wpc.
It also has a CD transport built in!!
Best of all, it sounds really good.
I also just reviewed a passive preamp from Tilbury Audio, the Mini Passive II, hand built in a workshop
in London that offers 3 configurable inputs and two configurable outputs. Real wood face plate with
laser engraved aluminum case work. $129 British Pounds!!
http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-p...udio-mini-passive-ii-preamplifier-review.html
In the coming months I will have an open baffle speaker costing $1295 speaker coming in from Spatial Audio, and
the Berning MicroZOTL 2.0 tubed preamp/headphone amp, costing $1100.
My office system is the “lab” I use to run my Miser Experiments. Right now I have the $800 CLONES Audio 25p power
amp, a Carver Black Magic tube amp, the above mentioned Tilbury passive, the $500 iFi Micro iDSD DAC, with the $499
Micro iUSB 3.0, the $499 SOtM server, several reel to reels I paid under $500 for, and I just ordered a pair of Magnepan MMGs, for $600.
Some basic rules
-Please NO disparaging of more costly, exotic equipment.
-Manufactures, Reps, and Dealers welcome welcome