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    Saga 2 Pre-amp is BOMB! DOPE! and also awesome

    Most often, especially on phono, I like the 6 db active.
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    Saga 2 Pre-amp is BOMB! DOPE! and also awesome

    When my Luxman TP-117 decided it didn't want to play various connected RCA inputs, I figured I was going to have to spend serious cash to get an acceptable pre-amp. And then I found this. For around $300.00 with the Forkbeard app thingee installed. It came within a few days, I plugged it in...
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    Schiit Saga 2

    My Luxman TP-117 developed some switching/output probs, so I got a Saga 2. I think it's incredible, as in barely believable. System is an M-117 Lux power amp, Luxman TT with a Grado Gold, BlueMe Pro, IFi phono preamp, B&W 805Ss, and a Klipsch 12" powered sub. B&W 805s will show up any defects...
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    What is regarded as the best Luxman amp for the money?

    25 or so years ago I had NAD pre with two NAD power amps driving some B&W floor standers (not matrix or above, don't remember the models). I still haven't figured out how the kids blew the woofer, but they did. IMO when a woofer on a decent speaker blows it's usually because the amp leaked...
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    What is regarded as the best Luxman amp for the money?

    the question was, "for the money". For the money, get an M-117. I paid about $700 for mine, it's virtually the same amp as an M-4000 without the pretty, and a good M-4000 costs $1000 more and has 20W less per channel. Damned fine amp. Presently running it through a Lux TP-117 preamp to B&W...
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    Luxman M-117 power amp. 750W/8 Ohms bridged. Yikes!

    Zorst: it's a really happy experience indeed. M-117, 803 Matrix, bi-wire, beautiful.
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    Luxman M-117 power amp. 750W/8 Ohms bridged. Yikes!

    Kent: I run my M-117 through a TP-117 preamp-tuner, a BlueMe DAC, and IFi phono-preamp into B&W Matrix 803s bi-wired. When I got the 803s I had a Sony TA-330 ES, 110 wpc very nice power amp. It became obvious pretty quickly that the Sony was not up to the job. I can't find a good chart of...
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    Lux and B&W just sing together -- happy musician dude

    I had a Sony 110 Wpc ES series amp from the same era. very good amp. very well made. very high-end Sony. It played music and sounded good, to a point. But when I really pushed it I could hear stuff I did not want to hear. Lux amps deliver into pretty much any load, and I don't know about...
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    Cartridge Tracking Battle - Interesting!

    thanks tons, much appreciated. Not sure if the woodies will fit on this tonearm, there's a bit of obstruction from the headshell that made the Gold 3 a challenge to mount but once I got it right, it's pretty darn nice. anyway, another day, right?
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    Lux and B&W just sing together -- happy musician dude

    Agreed about moving them wider, they're actually toed in just a touch, but I'd have to get a different desk and my wife correctly notes that I tend to "manspread" so this is kinda where they need to be. I bought the amp from a record producer who's also a technician. HIS wife tells me he...
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    Cartridge Tracking Battle - Interesting!

    1. I have serious respect for Grado technical expertise and customer service. I had a phono-preamp problem that made me think I had a TT-cartridge problem. Gold 3 on Luxman PD-272 with original Micro-Seiki TA-1 tonearm. There's not a lot of data out there on the TA-1, but it's straight and...
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    Lux and B&W just sing together -- happy musician dude

    Butter's system by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PMGrado Gold 3 by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PMpd-272 by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PM
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    Classic High-End Gear

    watched it. loved it. Lux and B&W here, M-117, 803 Matrix, TP-117 ... I worked in a store that sold Luxman with Infinity late 70s ... Lux and EMIT tweeters go together very nicely because the amps and preamps don't make electrostatics sound like Piezos (unfortunately a lot of amps do just that...
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    Luxman owners...

    I'm VERY happy with this table. The seller had put some improved RCA cables on it. The tonearm is super. Micro-Seiki TA-1, but I don't think I'd mess with the headshell it's not really made for changing. There were a couple of them for sale stand-alone for pretty close to what I paid for the...
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    Luxman owners...

    no good at this .. nuther trypd-272 by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PMpd-272 by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PMGrado Gold 3 by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PMGrado Gold 3 by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at 4:48 PMButter's system by ghaubrich posted Dec 26, 2022 at...
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