audioman58
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| Help me choose an Audio Research preamp/line stage (Please?) Your problem is your budget will put you in the older units near rebuild time Capacitors especially older units caps start drying out in 10 years loss if fidelity like hearing less and less , resistors too far better out there now ,old carbon ty... | |
| Help me choose an Audio Research preamp/line stage (Please?) Why does it have to be AR ? there are plenty of excellent preamps out there. go to. Linear Tube Audio their Micro Zoe under $5 k is excellent and you have 4 tube choices . | |
| How cam Morrow Audio keep offering 45%-65% discounts for trade-ups? roxy54 good observations , myself having owned a Audio store and 40+ years in Audio I have seen it all . I tell people even regarding fuses and especially AC outlets get rid of these Huge bottlenecks resistance= noise Petiod , look up metals con... | |
| 805D4 Cosmetic Issues Time is of the essence , how did you pay ? PayPal or stripe is preferred if not your credit card , and if in North America Never buy out ofthe country unless direct , even that you are not protected by U.S laws. They need to send you tracking... | |
| 805D4 Cosmetic Issues I have known the B&W brand for years , the inspect and pack each speaker in their top range which your speakers are ,anyone with half a brain 🧠 brain would inspect the polished head and see this defect , this should have been rejected at the... | |
| 805D4 Cosmetic Issues How did you pay for these ? PayPal ,or credit card , first ship them back , ask for a replacement if they Donot , file a complaint . B& W on there lower line now all madein China, NG , this line is around $9k retail is that correct ? Any c... | |
| How cam Morrow Audio keep offering 45%-65% discounts for trade-ups? Pretty easy ,most of their raw material is from China 10-1 markup in many cables that’s how they can do that and stil make money , and their connectors inexpensive gold coated brass , unless you want to pay a premium . | |
| Will China become the poor man’s dealer for high end audio? After my last episode with Chinese Dac Company I won’t mention never any electronics or speakers Ever again Period !! | |
| Riddle me this.... This would only help on a interconnect to a preamp That is known have reverse polarity , older CJ preamps used to, not speaker terminals. That’s was the only time to reverse one end of ale Ad on a interconnect. | |
| Guttenberg reviews Volti Razz Doyle3433 Very good points As I said when selling gear. 1 review is just one’s opinion , multiple reviews from several different sources are a more accurate consensus. I have heard Horror stories one from a excellent company years ago who ... | |
| Guttenberg reviews Volti Razz Volti has one flaw ,myself. Modding Xovers for over 20 years not only volti but the vast majority ,they use average at best parts quality why ? to save $$ most do not experiment like excellent world class Loudspeaker builder Tony Gee. Know fo... | |
| Guttenberg reviews Volti Razz I take his reviews with a grain of salt , everything is mostly good how many times does he say something is bad ? I know of a couple reviewers who would rather send the product back then give a bad review. | |
| Simple question, probably stupid With new tubes from China, Russia 50 hours is pretty close to runin and not anywhere close to NOS tubes which take 2 x to settle in any last much longer the tube standards were far better ,such as 98+ % vacuum vs 92-94% today , the metal recip... | |
| Power cable from wall socket to power strip A lot depends how good or bad your power strip is ,with yours yes a moderate $2-300 power cord will make a improvement personally you need to spend around $3+ on up to truly get a line conditioner that truly makes a big noticeable difference... | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? Standby mode is good to use saywhen nolongerlister8ng for the evening warm uptime is maybe30 minutes to sound best.. |