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| Does anyone have any experience of hybrid valve and solid state power amps? Available used for around $3000, occasionally. | |
| Line Magnetic 518ia - How Much Heat Does It Produce? nightfall---while the RM-200 is a fully balanced amp with XLR input jacks only (I agree with you about it, owning a Mk.2 myself), the RM-10 is not. It has RCA input jacks, and is a great little amp (THE best for old Quads, for which it was designe... | |
| Does anyone have any experience of hybrid valve and solid state power amps? Most hybrid amps have a valve input stage and solid state output. Roger Modjeski instead went with a bipolar input stage and valve driver and outputs stages in his Music Reference RM-200 amp. It’s a great amp (100w/ch, from only a pair of KT88 or ... | |
| Audiophile LP's lewm is SO right about the Reference Recordings LP's. Though not as startling "alive" sounding as direct-to-disk LP's (RR are recorded on a really good analog reel-to-reel recorder by Keith Johnson), they not only contain great sound, but also gre... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Joe, here's something everyone can do (I have): plug a pair of condenser mics into a good reel-to-reel recorder (I used a Revox A77), and record live music yourself. You won't believe how good it sounds! Way, way better than most commercial record... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? Amongst hardcore DIY speaker builders, "Baltic Birch" is considered the best plywood. It is void-free, 13-layer 3/4", often in 5' x 5' sheets, though sometimes 4' x 8'. A great enclosure can be made of an inner box of Baltic Birch (with cross-brac... | |
| Best balanced linestage/preamp for $4000 or less ??? The EAR-Yoshini 868L has one XLR input and dual-XLR outputs (as well as dual-RCA outs), and can occasionally be found used for around $3000. It’s a nice pre, and weights 22 lbs.! It’s deceiving---a look inside reveals not a lot of parts, but when ... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Agreed jaybe, and Melissa Etheridge as well. | |
| Disappointed w/ Klipsch Heresy III. Now what? Olsher has been one of my favorite reviewers for years. Technically knowledgeable, great ears, and a damn good writer. A very close friend and colleague of J. Gordon Holt’s. | |
| New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000 A close reading of the test bench results John Atkinson has gotten from some of the D’Agostino products may provide the answer to why DD doesn’t mention them in his talks. Roger Modjeski discusses in his now-dormant Audiocircle Music Reference For... | |
| What do you listen to when no one else can hear it Martin Mull's Live In Your Living Room album is pretty darn great. | |
| Racks - what’s awesome without impacting my kids college plans? I have the old Solid Steel’s myself, ozzy, Model 48. All they are is nicely made, somewhat lightweight (in comparison with the bulkier Sound Anchor) tubular metal frames (sand fillable) with MDF shelves, each shelf supported on three aluminum "iso... | |
| Nakamichi Cassette Decks Happy to have been able to help, Jim!---Eric. | |
| Favorite Dylan? jafant, I just saw that also playing on the album are Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz, two of my favorite guitarists. | |
| My Quicksilver preamp inverts polarity Switch interconnects? You can reverse the left and right channels thusly, but not the polarity. |