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| best preamps You have to make some decisions:Balanced or single-endedTube or solid stateGenerally, balanced reduces the coloration of the interconnect cables, but does so best if the preamp supports AES48, the balanced line standard. Many balanced high end aud... | |
| Still looking for an amplifier upgrade- but with a new twist..... @pgastoneYou can run tubes if you like- get a set of ZEROs (www.zeroimpedance.com) and you can run any tube amp that makes enough power. The ZEROs have taps for 2 ohms and thus load the tube amp at 16 ohms. They also have bandwidth much wider than... | |
| how good really There are now beryllium diaphragms available for some horns. They have less breakups and so sound smoother and faster. Crossover capacitors have improved as well. Throat and horn designs have improved due to Computer Aided Design, and so have less... | |
| BE VERY CAREFUL OF YOUR DEALINGS ON AUDIO-ASYLUM I don't think there's anything sinister here.I've dealt with autospec before, and we heard from the dealer in Nebraska as well- he had some questions about operation. Sounds to me like he was a bit slow shipping out the trade amps, but other than ... | |
| Reel to Reel Tape IME the Studer is one of the best sounding solid state machines. They look clunky (I have the A-80) but they deliver. The Ampex 351 electronics is more musical, but also can be noisier. To deal with some of the tape handling issues, I set the 351 ... | |
| How much does vinyl formulation have an influence on overall sound? The quietest pressings we've seen have come from QRP which is owned by Acoustic Sounds.Its not the vinyl though- its how the pressing machines are damped so as not to shake or vibrate as the vinyl is being pressed.In mastering different projects t... | |
| Accuracy vs. musicality The more the sonic illusion of a full orchestra is created, the more it's going to fight with your perception (or at least knowledge, if eyes closed) that the room you're in could not get close to housing a full orchestra. I think that's why I... | |
| Best 6x9 Speakers Gold Sound of Colorado made the best 6x9s I've heard by a wide margin. I don't know if he still makes them.He does run an amazing store though- if ever in the area, a must-see for any audiophile! | |
| Accuracy vs. musicality Very few would really enjoy a perfectly accurate speaker.IME, accuracy and musical are the exact same thing. If its somehow able to be accurate but not musical- that suggests a distortion of some kind- which suggests its not accurate. Quite liter... | |
| Requirements for Moving Coil setup Most moving coil cartridges are low complianceFurther, many LOMC cartridges are high compliance as well. I would like to use the MM cartridge (Grado Blue) on my BIC 960 as a 'preview' turntable for 2nd hand vinyl recordings. The JVC QL-A2 would ... | |
| Substitute for Shindo in the UK We just got a new dealer in the UK and our gear carries the CE mark. Shindo should be exempt from many of the directives (as long as no digital or computer circuits are involved), and its possible to self-certify. This should be solvable! | |
| Do you have a favorite vacuum tube? The Amperex 7316 is one of the best 12AU7s out there.6SN7s are better than that though. 12AU7s, 6CG7s (also excellent) and 12BH7s are all based on 6SN7s (the 6CG7 and 12BH7 are literally 6SN7s in a miniature envelope; the 12AU7 is the same geometr... | |
| Replacing my MFA Luminescence B2 preamp Regarding the power supply, what should I be looking out for.Older filter capacitors that need replacement. If they fail, they can take the power transformer with them, which is tragic, since a part like that can be really tricky and expensive to ... | |
| Help with XLR between Luxman L-509X & Hegel HD30 DAC To be clear, the American standard is pin 1 ground, pin 2 **noninverting**, pin 3 **inverting**.There is no 'cold' and 'hot'; both signal pins carry equal importance.The Euro standard reverses the phase- the assignments of pins 2 and 3 are reverse... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @dracule1I think you might be glossing over my comments here.All amps, tube, solid state and class D, make more distortion driving lower impedances. Its a simple physical fact- you can see it in the specs.Its also a fact that the human ear convert... |