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| How do tube manufacturers like VAC get 55 watts per KT88 where others get only 30-35? I don’t know about Kevin Hayes and his VAC designs, but Roger Modjeski details how he gets 100 watts out of a pair of KT88’s in his Music Reference RM-200 in the company’s now-dormant AudioCircle Forum. I know MR isn’t as hip and cool as VAC, but ... | |
| Absolute Sound - do we really need another review like this? Frank, you’ve been a subscriber to TAS since the J. Gordon Holt days? Just kidding---me too. I discovered Gordon in ’72, I believe it was. Just in time for the high-end explosion that was spreading across the country; Audio Research had just made ... | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A Ah, okay, it's passive you want. The purist way to high-pass filter the signal going to your power amp and speakers, to relieve them of reproducing bass frequencies (a worthwhile objective imo), one that has been used since the DIY 1950's, is to i... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I’m with you frogman. The first wiring in an analog system is that in the arm, and the most important to improve if need be. A whole industry popped up to cure the sub-standard Rega arm wiring, but a lot of other arms need it just as badly. A sing... | |
| Wilson New Speaker Master Chronosonic While not wanting to be mean spirited, I can’t resist this one. That room, the drapes in particular, was obviously decorated by Mrs. Wilson. Have you seen pictures of her at shows? She dresses in the same fashion; big, puffy ruffles and satin, lik... | |
| Electric Interference + Line / Surge Conditioning stringreen, what was the fix in the grounding? I'm about to have dedicated wiring installed in my music room, and may as well make sure it's grounded properly! Thanks---Eric. | |
| A Different Solution for Cables emailists, it is Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere who feels a true balanced connection between two truly balanced circuits (most commonly the pre-amp output and power amp input, of course) mitigates or even completely removes the sound of the inter-co... | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A The Marchand crossovers are very well regarded in the hardcore DIY community. The maker can supply the owner replaceable "cards" to insert in the x/o, providing just about any x/o frequency and slope one desires. And most are available with balanc... | |
| Best musical sub under $1k? Head over to the Rythmik Audio site and check out the F12 (aluminum coned driver) and F12G (paper cone), both of which sell for $940 shipped. That is their highest priced 12" sub, a number of more modest 12" are also available.Rythmik is becoming ... | |
| A Different Solution for Cables sabai---I got Mogami's with XLR's just to use with my subs, where full-range good sound is not necessary. Since I have them anyway, I thought a comparison to Kimber Hero, Silver Streak, KCAG and KCTG would be interesting. Have you seen the video s... | |
| List of artists that have never lost quality throughout entire career Excellent instance and example of nothing but first-rate work in Los Lobos, tostadosunidos! By the way, I learned of them in a great manner: I went to see The Plimsouls at a little dive on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City named The Garage (it was lite... | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? Jim, if you mean a predecessor to the .7 itself, no, there wasn’t---there was no Magnepan MG .6. But there were predecessors to the 1.7 and the 3.7, those being the 1.6 and the 3.6. Both of those had xovers that allowed them to be bi-amped. The se... | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? Kenny, my table is also non-suspended---a Townshend Rock Elite. Max Townshend incorporated his Seismic Pod into the last version of the Rock (Mk.7, I believe), a quartet of Pods that function as the tables suspension. The Rock Elite has a trio of ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? reubent---Did you get to see The Dwight Twilley Band live? OMG, the ultimate melding of Elvis and The Beatles! Lead guitarist Bill Pitcock IV (R.I.P.) was really great, getting just about the best guitar tone I’ve ever heard out of a Gibson ES335 ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? astewart: The Basement Tapes---great stuff, right up my alley! In case you haven't seen it, there is an expanded version, a boxset on Columbia Legacy, part of the Dylan Bootleg Series, this being Volume 11. The box contains six CD's and a book. A ... |