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| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" Zaikes, I did not say Krell didn't measure the effect, I simply said they agreed there was a problem and fixed it. It does not matter that I didn't measure the effect, the change of blocking the light was enough of a problem that the manufacturer ... | |
| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system Ozzy I agree people need to be protected, that's why that distributor has been banned from getting any additional Purist product. You would be surprised at just how many other big name lines that guy in Indonesia has been hacking into the US marke... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" Albert: You say Krell confirmed your finding that "overhead halogen lights, shining through the Plexiglas lid of their MD10 CD transport, affected the bit stream to the D-to-A converter." This implies that they actually found a change in the measu... | |
| Rives Audio purchases Talon Loudspeaker Co. Congratulations RIves!For what it's worth Lloyd Walker (Walker Turntables) thinks the Talon is one of the finest speakers in the world. I respect both you and Lloyd so I assume by connection, you are throwing your support into very high quality pr... | |
| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system Your statement is not true. I had a Purist Dominus that was made in Indonesia.That Dominus was either manufactured in Texas for sale in Indonesia, or was a counterfeit Dominus made in Indonesia. There are no (legal) manufacturing facilities for Pu... | |
| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system Tonyptony, I think all Venustas are the same too. The statements I made are what I am sure of. I can call Purist tomorrow and find out if Venustas had any variations or not.As for comparisons between Kubala and Purist, I will leave that to those w... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" RlwainwrightThat may be so, Albert, but the fact is that the VAST majority of CD players pull the disc inside the machine's case. So, please explain to me just how "stray" light is getting inside the player?Obviously CD's pulled inside or otherwis... | |
| distance from amplifier to preamplifier question? I agree with Mike Lavigne, magnetic interference from the power supply of the amp can harm the preamps performance. That's why Lamm asks for separation between the two.On the Treo 650, I have that same phone and the interference is caused by it op... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" Missti, ask Krell about how I discovered that overhead halogen lights, shining through the Plexiglas lid of their MD10 CD transport effected the bit stream to the D to A converter. Stray light, bounced light and vibration are all real. The CD play... | |
| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system As far as I know, all Purist cables marked Dominus or Dominus Ferox (and no other designation) are USA cables. ALL Purist Aqueous Anniversary and ALL Purist Anniversary cables are identical, regardless of where in the world they are sold. There ha... | |
| Listening in Depth - A Sampler of CBS Stereophonic I don't know if the following qualify as unique, but a couple of very much overlooked labels with great sound are the Artist House LP's and the pressings from A&M records Horizon's division, representing abstract Jazz (post bop?) artists of t... | |
| Tube Characterization: 6DJ8, 6922, 7308 Part II I use the ECC88, the 6DJ8 variety with common steel pins (not gold) pins. The E88CC is a true 6922 and I frequently find these gold pin versions (although classier looking) to be harder sounding, grainer and slightly more compressed. Here is a lin... | |
| Tube Characterization: 6DJ8, 6922, 7308 Part II Tvad, this site has accurate descriptions and good images of most of the audio tubes we're discussing. Karsten is one of my suppliers and is located in Germany.http://www.tube-classics.de/TC/Tubes/AudioTubes.htm | |
| Tube Characterization: 6DJ8, 6922, 7308 Part II Jafox, regarding:As for the 6922/6DJ8/7308, as much as I like the Mullard 6922 gold pin, the Telefunken 6DJ8 has been phenomenal in every component I have tried. Tonal coherency is more refined over the somewhat edgy Mullard in the treble, and the... | |
| How to hang rugs. Justin, I attached with only one piece of tack strip. It sits behind the rug with the spikes penetrating the hand tied knots on the back of the rug. The tacks are shallow enough that they don't pass completely through the rug face.I did add two ti... |