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| Upgrade-itus: Classé DR-9 vs. MF A3.2? 07-26-14: 5560If David Reich was still designing an amplifier today, I would be in line to buy one. Come to think about it, anyone know where he is today?He is the chief engineer at Theta Digital, for which he has worked for the past 16 years. Reg... | |
| Squeezebox Touch not diplaying some music files This suggestion might be of some help. It restores the iTunes library to an earlier state, and is described as often being a solution for, among other things, library corruption that may result from "upgrades."It's very simple to do, and very simp... | |
| Best Tube Based Options For B&W 803S Speakers The input impedance of the Halo A21 is spec'd at 33K unbalanced and 66K balanced, which would be a suitable match for most tube preamps. I'd still be hesitant to pair it with the BAT preamp, however, assuming the output impedance of the VK-3i is s... | |
| Best Tube Based Options For B&W 803S Speakers You will need to be very careful about impedance compatibility when pairing a tube preamp with your Anthem A2. The A2 has a specified input impedance of only 10K unbalanced and 15K balanced.The output impedance of the BAT VK-3ix is described in Jo... | |
| Why Palladium in cables, wiring, etc. . .? Regarding the conductivity (and its reciprocal, resistivity) of silver vs. copper, a point to keep in mind is that the roughly 6% or so difference between the two metals can be compensated for several times over by simply going one gauge size larg... | |
| Question about Stax Lambda Pro Headphones Yes, as far as I know the only headphone amps suitable for use with the Stax "Pro" phones, which would provide the right bias voltage (580 volts), the right signal characteristics, etc., are those specifically designed for them. As I mentioned, th... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Thanks, John (Roxy54). Although I'm familiar with, and somewhat like, a lot of the Airplane's work, somehow I had overlooked "Today." Enjoyed listening to it.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Question about Stax Lambda Pro Headphones Frogman, thanks for the input about using the ST-70 with a Stax Energizer, which of course adds confidence that Mabonn would be ok using his with a tube amp.Regarding the ED-1, my perceptions have been exactly as you describe. Its most notable eff... | |
| Question about Stax Lambda Pro Headphones Q1) Good question. I couldn't find input impedance specs on the 1980s Stax adapters, which would allow a definitive answer. FWIW, though, my guess is that there would be no problem. Not sure I'd bet the health of my amp on it, though. I did find t... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? I voted in this thread several years ago, but I'll add another favorite of mine, this time in the folk genre. "Today" by the New Christy Minstrels, from 1964.Regards,-- Al | |
| Unbalanced to balanced VPI junction box change? ZD, Ralph's contention just applies if certain criteria are met, and they are very often not met. See his post here, in which he explains further, and also offers what I consider to be a highly persuasive proof of that contention, at least for lin... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? My vinyl experience over the years has not included LOMC's or other cartridges having relatively low compliance, such as I presume most of those participating in this discussion are using. FWIW, though, using MM's and MI's having relatively high c... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Great article, Onhwy61. Thanks!With respect to this excerpt in particular, though ...In cases where a relative or interrogative human-class pronoun is associated with subject function in a subordinate clause that is not the main clause in which it... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Discussing "who" vs. "whom," although often a question not lacking in difficulty, seems less likely to perturb domestic tranquility than discussing the other tangent this thread went off on. So I'll mention that I believe Courant is correct, and i... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store 07-15-14: MacrojackWe all know what the reference means because it is a common catchphrase and it targeted no one in particular and no group at all. It was just a phrasing that could easily have been overlooked but some of us had to make a big dea... |