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The GS-1 is completely opposite of the Melos and to this day remains one of the most refined and transparent amps I have ever listened too.

I concur. I've always thought the Grado Melos thing was way overhyped. However it sounds like something is wrong with your Melos. Mellow was never my impression, it was always more on the side of way too hot, way too much gain, and just really a raw, unrefined sound. I think that's why people liked it, because it was basically loud and gritty and the whole Grado rock thing made sense.

Time to start looking at replacing my crappy HT soundbar and looking at getting a cheap receiver and some bookshelves - those prices for the apparent quality is ridiculous.

Obviously. Oh and moar bass.

Ok, this is truly a serious question...it appears the original point of the 3A was to do the crossover digitally which would take care if time and phase issues. Then the patent issues were brought up and he went back to the old crossover in the iem and the 3a simply became a tri amp system with bass control. Now it Appears the crossover in the iem has been redesigned to account for time and phase issues which the 3a supposedly had taken care of. So why would someone go with the 3a currently vs just a normal freqphased jh16?

So is the freqphase basically the crossover done right, making it time and phase aligned? If so, is the JH3A essentially obsolete?

Ask srajan?

I can't wait to borrow yours. K thx.

The 103 has volume control on its analog outputs, so I'm sure the 105 has it too. The 105 I believe has an actual preamp board whereas the 103 is just digital attenuation, but don't quote me on that.

I am convinced that if you can handle its quirks the hd800 truly is an end of the road dynamic.

My 103 came in Thursday. It is real snappy - the loading time is impressive. The hdmi input and upscaling/deinterlacing of my Comcast box is actually better than I expected. I thought I wouldn't see a difference but even on my lowly panny g25 it's definitely a cleaner picture, less noise, and looks smoother. Avatar and dark knight looked great but the 83 was no slouch. I'm going to see how it handles the Apple TV and my random iPad stuff using the front hdmi input.

Vandersteens are nice. I've always been curious about Jordan's though in a simple 35" mltl. I won't complain about my Lowther alerions.

Shouldn't your comparison be: M100 is to the momentum what the 650 is to the 600?

103 - team less stuff inside.

Ordered. Now time to figure out what to do with my 83.

Sweet.

Dude this thing is freaking snappy fast.

Will be at a wedding - at the union league club, fancy. Sorry to miss ya!

The dsha1 is pretty killer with the hp2s. However I also really liked it with tyll's hd800 and johns lcd2.

Yup. Thanks eric - I appreciate your taking the time. I would rather read it here than somewhere else.

Same here. Once they started talking how power cords affected their black levels... Eric - again great to hear and i might as well start saving.

Thats awesome eric. Thanks for actually reading avsforum

Question - since it would have hdmi input, you could hook up say your cable feed to it and benefit from it's awesome up scaling capabilities, correct? My current cable box is setup to output native which means the tv (panny g25) is doing the up scaling, but the oppo is I'm sure way better. Edit: apologize for the avsforum tone in this post. Those videophiles are nuts.

Cool. Never used mine for music listening, and don't have enough sacd to play on big rig, usually just play it through the crappy home theater. Will check it out.

Word.