amandarae
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| SET sound without a lot of money Let's cut the shit. There is no good SET sound for not a lot of money.Maybe, but I for one do not agree to your statement. If you cannot build one, what you said is probably true but if you can, and understand what you are doing, then you can have... | |
| will different lengths affect sound No!I have not met anyone with speaker cables longer than (20Hz to 20kHz) 1500 meters, let alone 150,000 meters. Maxwell and Kelvin says, for simplicity sake, and I quote ..."the length of the wire is important when the signal includes frequency co... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I too have the same Supratek Preamp, Chenin, since 2004! I build my own amps and other preamps so it was so easy for me to tweak it but I cannot do it as I want to preserve its own "tone" that I have been accustomed to for so many years sinced I o... | |
| Martin logan CLS II Vs Magnepan 1.7 Stay with the CLS and get a nice sub. The Maggies does not have the clarity of the CLS period! I been there, in the maggie world, clarity is brightness. Like your CLS, no maggies, except the 20.1's, have a decent bass unless you have a sub. | |
| Back to mono? I would suggest a single Altec 605 in OB or vented cabl like 612 or 620 (604's too!). The 605's if I am not mistaken is a combo of 515 and 802 mated together while the 604's are 416 and 806, which are two of the best driver's Altec ever produced. ... | |
| DENON DL-304. Is it the bargain sound or not? The biggest mistake for those loading a cartridge down is to rely on using resistors to load the cart but does not account for the gain. The transformed impedance of the SUT's affects the gain needed for the cartridge to match well. That is the re... | |
| DENON DL-304. Is it the bargain sound or not? Try a 1:36 SUT, unloaded, and tail down on the cart with the manufacturer's recommended VTF. I have been using 304's for 4 years now. I have 65 lbs platter on my Garrard 301 and 55 lbs. platter on my Thorens 124. | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? 1.)Altec (288, 802D,416,515,604,414,806, 811, 511)2.)RCA Phono Preamp Circuit(you have to build it)3.)Azura Horns4.)Thorens TD124, Garrard 301, Technics SP10, SME 3012! (sells for less than $500 or thereabouts per before all the craziest depleted ... | |
| 5 legendary speakers? No Altec's or Magnepans?Altec- beats any of the speakers listed before this post, except the Tannoys, SF, and the Quads, in terms of retaining its price and will make the whole group of speakers a run for their money if not much better in sound pe... | |
| Magneplanar 1.7s to Recruit New Audiophile? I been there. Magnepans are cheap, but that is just the speakers. After that you will spend much more on the ff(in any order):1.) Amps2.) Crossover tweaks3.) Room treatments4.) Cables5.) Preamp6.) Stands7.) SubwooferYou do not own Magnepans. At so... | |
| You cannot buy original Altec 515 /416 /604 cones What's your point?GPA does not advertise them as "Original" do they? They only say "Replacement Parts We Manufacture".Or this... NO ONE ELSE can manufacture diaphragms for your Altec high frequency compression drivers that perform exactly as the o... | |
| Denon DL-103R cartridge update I have 6 Denon 103/103R cartridges total(one 103 and one 103R SoundSmith retip). Before that, I had Koetsu Rosewood, Shelter 501, Shelter 901, Benz Glider, Benz ACE(still have this one) as my "test" field. I tried several iterations: wood-body, nu... | |
| Tube Basics 101: What is a rectifier tube for? I disagree.CF is very important in the circuit of the topology you described! Try bypassing the CF (without replacing it with a transformer)in your preamp's output circuit and you will see how important it is on how the preamp will sound and how i... | |
| Speaker wire Your welcome Jedinite! Glad it works for you. | |
| Speaker wire I have a two way Altec with 112 dB HF and 99 dB LF drivers.You might want to try this http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/whitelightning/moonshine.html For less than $50 in total investment, what do you have to loose. The wires are 14 gauge. What I... |