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| Any Pink Triangle experts who can help me? I've known of people using 12v power warts with their Pink motors in the past. Wall warts are cheap. So, yes, get a nice fat 9v PS and compare it with the 12. If the 9v gives you a quieter motor, you know to use it for sure. Even if it's not worse... | |
| Help me pick an amp for under $5,000 Listen to, and then buy one of these: McIntosh MC252 or McIntosh MC402. If you can go for the 402, you're done for a looooooong time.Phil | |
| Need advice ono a Tube preamp You have a speaker and several amplifiers that share a fairly "cold" characteristic, especially in the treble range. Frankly, you'd be more likely to attain the sound you seek by changing either power amps or speakers, depending on which you are m... | |
| Any Pink Triangle experts who can help me? The basic engineering and configuration of the Pink is well-thought out. The honeycomb aerolam subchassis, the ruby bearing, the acrylic platter -- they all still = excellent sound. Point is, the motor is work replacing if necessary, as long as th... | |
| MC Cartridge suggestions for Rega RB300? I've been using a DL-103D for several years with an RB300 and now RB600 tomearm. Bass is lean with the stock Rega counterweight. It fills in nicely with the Heavyweight and presumably with the Kerry Audio titanium iteration. Also, my current favor... | |
| Any Pink Triangle experts who can help me? I personally don't think a newer Export is necessarily better than the original Pink, if the original is working properly. However, if you have an original, it is over 20 years old and depending on how it was cared for and stored, you could have a... | |
| Anyone heard Zu Druid speakers? At VTV, one recording Sean and Adam played in the Zu room delivered what I thought Druids are capable of, and that was a Chinese recording using a combination of western and Chinese instruments, and I don't know the name of the recording or the pe... | |
| Any Pink Triangle experts who can help me? I owned an original Pink and this looks like the same thing. Where's the platter?What do you need to know? Do you have the little custom wrench for making the suspension adjustment through the holes in the side of the plinth?Phil | |
| Anyone heard Zu Druid speakers? I was at VTV. Now, keep in mind I own Druids. I didn't find any room at the show where equipment I was familiar with sounded anywhere close to what I know it can sound like in a home, so there was a general problem with lackluster tone, even in ho... | |
| Hall of Fame: BIGGEST BADDEST Monster Amps That's easy. McIntosh MC1201 monoblocks. Simple, direct, bulletproof, Amazon power flow and almost triode-like revelation and relaxed demeanor.And then there's this:http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/mcprod/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=14&cat=Power+Amp... | |
| Has everyone heard the Waif's? The Waifs' "Shelter Me" from 2004 is one of the cleanest, clearest, most alive pop CDs I've heard. Quite apart from the music, the production quality is sit-up-and-notice real. The music is expressive and worth the attention to detail invested in ... | |
| Speakers for a small room You don't have enough power to do justice to the Cremona Auditors or the Guarneri. You'll get sound, but both speakers' crossovers just don't get out of the way with modest power. Especially the Guarneri. Zu Druids are full range, dynamic and effi... | |
| Best 10K Speaker Yup....Zu Definition is as good as it gets at this price and considerably beyond. Don't skimp on amps. This is a speaker that hides nothing.Phil | |
| S.F. Cremona vs Wilson Benesch Curves I have heard both the SF and the WB speakers, but in different settings. Both are involving and satisfying. The Cremona is definitely a "voiced" speaker, whereas the WB is more objective. The Cremona sounds more like music to me.However, an 845 am... | |
| Looking for an incredibly dynamic preamplifier Easily the most dynamic preamp I've heard so far -- it was recently and I wasn't expecting it -- is the Audiopax Model 5.Really explosive, with slam, subterranean bass with transient discipline, and startling in the way it projects leading edge at... |