armstrod
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| Large Advent Fried Egg Tweeters I owned the Advents for 27 years. I think it's mostly how the speaker was designed rather than the age of the tweeter. The soft dome that Kloss used didn't have the edge of some tweeters of that vintage, and is certainly more rolled off than most ... | |
| Best Recording of Traffic: Low Spark Jeffreybowman2k,I'm not sure about the best pressing, but I can tell you this: I own both an original 1971 LP and the Smiling Phases compilation on CD, and there's no comparison on my system - the LP wins hands down. When they shake the "tree" in ... | |
| Speltz Anti Cables Yes and yes. They work great in my system.http://www.anticables.com/ | |
| What are the best monitor speakers for classical? Classical_fred,I own the VR-1s, use them with a sub, and love them. You can buy them for much less then $1000. If you want new, go to:www.higherfi.comThey are the one and only authorized online dealer for VS, and they currently have them for $749 ... | |
| How far would you drive to audition a component? I drove from Halsey, OR to Depoe Bay, OR (maybe 100 miles) with my New Advents in their original boxes strapped to the luggage rack of my Toyoata MR-2. They really affected the aerodynamics and handling. :-) The buyer drove up from California, but... | |
| Stockfisch Records Jaybo is right. If you do a search on Stockfisch for vinyl, it turns out they have a grand total of 3 titles available.A good start, at least... | |
| Can i use a PC as a preamp? Use the Line Out on your sound card and it should work fine. If you're forced to use a spaeaker level output make sure you have the volume all the way down when you fire it up - you'll overdrive the amps quickly. Either way you'll probably need a ... | |
| Pre Amp with ATI 1202, NAD 7155 & GMA Europa's Group3e11,I was on a very similar path a few years ago. I started with an NAD 7140 that I had owned for 20 years. Adding a modded Hafler DH-200 made a substantial difference, but I had a feeling the NAD was still holding me back. I tried both the ... | |
| What's the best way to convert to MP3?? iTunes works separately from the iPod. I have iTunes on all of my computers just for the Internet radio. It will do a very nice job of ripping any CDs you have, and also allow you store the MP3s logically and play them back.If you have sufficient ... | |
| Internet radio stations that sound really good KWVA Eugenehttp://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~kwva/Great college radio streaming at 224K MP3 | |
| Electro-Harmonix and Sovtex tubes I don't have any experience with 12xxx tubes, but I own both the EH and Sovtek 6SN7s, and I can tell you that they are definitely not the same tube, either in construction or sound. In my Wright WLA12A the EHs are very superior to the Sovteks, and... | |
| Are Monitor/Subs More Room Flexible? I don't know if "flexible" is the right term, but I've certainly found my monitor/sub combo to be far more suitable for my listening environment, especially as my rooms have gotten smaller. Since I can only do minimal room treatment, I found any s... | |
| Amplifier fried laptop what can I Do ? Any ideas? Apple had a run of bad video chips - it's the heat that eventually kills them and you managed to greatly accelerate the process. Was this a Class A amp? :-)Anyway, it's a known issue. My iBook G3 went in 5 times for the same video problem, each on... | |
| Evidence of groove damage of TT setup? Audiofeil,I'm guessing I haven't run across too many of YOUR old LPs in the thrift stores... :-)Dougdeacon,I tried your slow rotation test on a record that certainly sounds pretty damaged at 33 rpm, and then again on a known clean and undamaged di... | |
| Evidence of groove damage of TT setup? Fatparrot is entirely correct about much older vinyl, especially rock albums, but Sidssp has what discovered what I've also found to be a very plausible workaround. I recently upgraded from my used Shure V15/Denon 103R duo to a brand new Zyx Bloom... |