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| Tannoy Monitor Gold, Red series value$appreciation About 25 years ago I sold a pair of 15 inch Tannoy Reds, in cabinets that were not particularly special (and with one of the cabinets being somewhat damaged), for $1500. If I hadn't priced them for quick sale to someone local, I suspect I could ha... | |
| USB printer cable VS USB audiophile grade cable? There are a number of possible explanations that occur to me:1)Electrical noise that may be transmitted from the computer to the DAC via the cable could to some degree couple "around" the DAC's buffer memory and jitter rejection circuitry (via gro... | |
| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? Well, to go off on yet another tangent, that would be "Duesy," as in "Duesenberg.":-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| A nice PC upgrade USB stands for universal serial bus, so all processes run in series.A clarification: "Serial" in the context of a data bus such as USB doesn't refer to processes. It refers to the fact that the bits are transmitted through the USB interface one af... | |
| How to Bi-wire speakers when using a subwoofer If you want to (or have to) connect the sub at speaker-level, rather than by means of the line-level option Akg described, under most circumstances it would be best to connect the main speakers directly to the amplifier, using good quality heavy g... | |
| Can a phono stage really do this? Johnny, yes, tics and pops and crackling can be dramatically affected by the phono stage. Ralph/Atmasphere has made that point in a number of past threads, such as this one. I'm not familiar with the MAGI Phonomenal, but if it uses passive RIAA eq... | |
| I Just Know It's BS ... But I Have't Tried It Yet Similar issues were discussed at great length a couple of years ago in a thread entitled "Do You Believe In Magic?"As I indicated in one of my posts in that thread, my background in electronic design (unrelated to audio) has taught me that many th... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Great!I don't doubt their statements about the RX vs. XX. And actually when I suggested the RX I hadn't thought of the possibility of using the XX with your existing adapter cable.I'd expect that either approach will work well, and will solve the ... | |
| Is there any 50W 300B SET monoblock out there? Hi Charles,As a further point of info about the VAC Renaissance amps, all of them are described in their respective manuals as being Class A.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Amplifier specs, does they matter? As I've said in a number of past threads, IMO the main usefulness of specs is to allow one to identify and RULE OUT from consideration candidates for purchase that would be poor matches to either the surrounding components or to the user's require... | |
| Is there any 50W 300B SET monoblock out there? 09-03-14: Charles1dadWhat I don't know is this, SET vs push pull circuits, is one inherently "tougher" on tubes than the other? Or is there a wide spectrum in terms of stress/demand with either topology that's the overriding factor?As you realize,... | |
| Is there any 50W 300B SET monoblock out there? Good discussion by all.09-03-14: Charles1dadAre you familiar with amplifiers that maximize the 300b power curve and sound good doing so?As you'll most likely recall, Charles, the VAC Renaissance series is one example. Member "Raquel" (Drake), who ... | |
| Anti-skating- test records vs. ears Bruce and Stan, in the other thread I linked to in my post above, Dover and John Gordon, who are both highly knowledgeable about such matters, indicated that in at least some of the VPI designs some amount of anti-skating force is being applied ev... | |
| do i change the preamp or the speakers? Fivefasts, the recommended load capacitance for the M91ED ("N91ED" is its stylus assembly) is 400 to 500 pf. I would expect that under typical circumstances the total capacitance of the turntable wiring, the phono cable, and the input capacitance ... | |
| Anti-skating- test records vs. ears I know the conventional recommendation is to set the anti skate to the same setting as VTF.It has always amazed me that many turntable and tonearm manufacturers give that recommendation. In my experience, which is limited to moving magnet (and mov... |