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| FM alive and well here...curious question I was pleased to discover that Portland (Oregon) has a good Classical and Jazz station, at the left end of the dial of course. I haven't yet set up my MAC MR78 (with Modafferi update), but I gotta get a rooftop antenna and rotor. | |
| Maggie 3.6R volume problem See if the conductive wires glued onto the Mylar are delaminating. Very common with older Maggies. Fix them, then sell them and get a pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b's, whose magnetic-planar panels have vapor-deposited conductive elements rather... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? For solid state, the Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 and Bedini 25/25. For an amp with the power of the above-mentioned Adcom 555 but with far better sound, the PS Audio 200C. Plus, it doesn't blow up speakers as the Adcom is notorious for doing. | |
| Vibration control inside a cabinet Todd, what Barry Diament (long-term roller bearing proponent, and audiophile recording engineer) suggests is a roller bearing comprised of only one cup (the bowl facing upward, of course), the ball bearing sitting in it, and a hard ceramic floor t... | |
| Anybody have a PS Audio 200C Power Amp owners manual? Thanks jayman. I'm at ericjerde@gmail.com. I know the owners manual didn't contain specs---Gordon Holt commented on that fact in his review of the amp, providing some of them like input impedance and sensitivity. | |
| Vibration control inside a cabinet Roller bearings can be had from Ingress Engineering in Canada for as little as $85 for a set of three. If you use only one of the two bearing cups at each location instead of two (look at them to understand what that means!), with the ball bearing... | |
| Dearly departed Music Reference RM9 As has been said above, there is an RM-9 Mk.2 on Audiogon right now at an asking price of $2600. If you don't need the RM-9's 125w/ch, Music Reference has a real nice 35w/ch amp, the RM-10 Mk.2. Also the 100w/ch RM-200 Mk.2, with a bipolar input s... | |
| Repair Magnepan MG IIa vs new 1.7 or 0.7, etc You would think so kalali, but for some reason they need less power than Maggies. They are a nominal 8 ohm load (the m-p panels themselves 11-12 ohms), which would also lead one to think they would need a higher-current solid state amp, which put ... | |
| Very Bad purchase from upscale audio Acoustic Zen Adagio Users and lovers of vintage tubes often don't think of RAM Tubes, but Roger Modjeski not only has them, but tests (200 readings per tube, via an Apple computer with RM-designed softwear)), grades (A, SA, B, C, etc., as well providing exact test nu... | |
| Vibration control inside a cabinet Ya, and since springs isolate vertically very well, but laterally not-so-well, a set of roller bearing somewhere. I prefer them directly under the component where possible. So, the component, the roller bearings, the maple platform, the springs. R... | |
| Repair Magnepan MG IIa vs new 1.7 or 0.7, etc Repairing the old is money well spent, but before you go buying a pair of new (or even used) 1.7's, do yourself a favor and try to hear the Eminent Technology LFT-8b first. | |
| Preamp to amp compatability help. gakman, the RM-200 Mk.2 (make sure you get the Mk.2 version) is a great choice. It has a bipolar input stage and tube driver and output stages, using KT88 or 6550 tubes. It does not have the old-fashioned tube sound (soft bass, excess warmth, some... | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A Hmm Al, I'll have to get it straight from Roger. I got the impedance figure from my Mk.2 owners manual. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Amen Schubert! I was introduced to J.S. by the best songwriter I ever worked with. He didn't like much Pop, only Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan really. He spent his final years recording Bach keyboard works at home on his piano. I have to play Bach la... | |
| Anyone hear a Croft Integrated Amp? Damn, we should start a Decca Lovers club! I belonged to the Quad Owners club in the 1980’s. Other pre-amps of interest for the cartridge are the K & K and Zesto, the latter having a setting specifically for Londons/Deccas, with resistance and... |