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| How do tube manufacturers like VAC get 55 watts per KT88 where others get only 30-35? That’s nothin’! Roger Modjeski gets a hundred watts out of a pair of KT88’s in his Music Reference RM-200 MK.2, and without running the tubes hot. How? Creative, outside-the-box thinking. He discusses the amp's design in his now-dormant AudioCircl... | |
| Rega planar 3 bearing and oil Silica Nitride and Tungsten Carbide ball bearings have a much smoother surface than do steel ones, which makes for a quieter turntable. | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? Robert, my time with the SP-6b was a long time ago, it's tubes no longer in my memory. What the mode switch allows is for each channel to heard through both speakers, or both blended together to mono. I use it to switch between left and right chan... | |
| McIntosh MR78 upgrades? I disfavor mods in general, but the Modafferi MR78 one is different. Richard was heavily involved in the design of the RF sections of the tuner, and his mod of the 78 is more like an update, he putting everything he has learned about tuners in the... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Of course---Hank Williams! My favorite Hillbilly genius. | |
| New in 2017 I never bothered to give Bob's Sinatra-themed album a listen---it just didn't interest me. I also feel ambivalent about the American Standards album. It appears that when his writing-mojo fails him, he records the songs of others, to keep the cash... | |
| My Audio Research experience At one ARC in-store seminar I attended in the 1980’s, Bill Johnson stated that he designed and built his electronics to have a twenty year lifespan. At my then age, twenty years seemed to me like a long time, twenty years being a good chunk of it.... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Any band that attempts to do one of the songs on that first album finds out it's harder than it sounds, or that they anticipated. I speak from experience! | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Too bad more Maggie lovers who want to drive them with M-60's aren't aware of the Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeaker. It like Maggies is an inefficient planar-magnetic design, but the LFT-8's impedance is nominally 8 ohms, and if bi-amped the m... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? So true, Schubert and JMC. Brooks Berdan had customers who bought Jadis or VTL pre's and amps instead of the Music Reference he also sold, and Wilsons instead of Vandersteens. At one CES in the late 90's, while eating steak and drinking wine (Vand... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Damn, this talk of The Grape has me jazzed. I'm gonna pull our the '69 album and give it a relisten. | |
| Ayone know the wattage used at a Rock concert? Ah yes, the A7. The band house I lived in back in ’71 had a pair of them (the bands PA, of course) in the living room as a hi-fi, powered by a Fender Showman head. Had to be careful with the volume control---the A7 was so efficient, the 65 watts o... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? For the consumer able to buy a REF 6 or 10 new, value may not be a concern! For the buyer of a cost-no-object, advancing-the-State-Of-The-Art product, future developments will be dealt with when they appear, the possibility of a new, even-higher l... | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? Way to go Robert! The SP-6b is not only a fine pre-amp, it also has a mode switch! The pre uses 12AX7's, so look into getting some NOS Telefunkens to put in it. | |
| My Audio Research experience Bingo, Thom. Different designers use the same tube (and other electronic parts) in their respective circuits differently, some using parts way "over-rated" (able to handle much greater voltages than they are asked to in a particular circuit, for i... |