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| Your three favorite audio dealerships? Taters, have you visited Brian Berdan's shop in Pasadena, Audio Elements, yet? He was trained by Brooks (his Pa) his whole life, and took many of the BB Ltd. accounts (Wilson, VTL) with him to his new place. | |
| Comparing SACD sound to High Res Email Barry Diament---he does pro recording in lots of sampling rates. | |
| mapleshade ic's... I find many of Pierre's ideas ridiculous. Bookshelf sized speakers a couple of inches off the floor on his maple "stands"? Only if your favorite seats in the auditorium are in the rafters! | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Clio, Modjeski is very familiar with the 57's, and makes custom amps. Give him a call (he's up in Oakland/Berkeley now, not Santa Barbara), and see what he says about making you a direct-drive OTL for your 57's. Then let us know what he says---I h... | |
| Small Sub, NHT Sub 8 or Velodyne MiniVee The LS50's are good enough for which to get a great sub, not just an okay one. The Sub 8 is fine for a pair of Super Zero's (which I also have), but the LS50's rate something like a Rythmik F12 ($899). | |
| What is the best OTL out there? I haven't heard Roger Modjeski's OTL's, but his transformer-coupled amps sure are good. Plus with the way he runs his tubes so conservatively, his OTL amps are likely to need less maintenance than other OTL's, which can be pretty expensive to keep... | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Think about what Keith Herron did in my case: He took a used pre-amp that was discontinued ten years ago and reengineered it to meet my specific and unusual needs. Knowing I would want as much headroom as his design was capable of, and that I woul... | |
| Bob Weir documentary on Netflix Okay, upon reflection, I take your (plural) point and admit to deserving it. How embarrassing! But lemme 'splain: I was actually startled to see the sentiment of not being a huge fan of The Band in print. Where I come from, The Band are so signifi... | |
| Bob Weir documentary on Netflix The Band were the antidote to all the crappy hippie bands and psychedelic hogwash and excess of the late 60's/early 70's. | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 True Ralph, but most serious junkies use a specific amp with a specific speaker anyway. Change one and you most likely will have to change the other. When an engineer designs a speaker/amplifier combination, he can tailor each to the other. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Lew, Harvey recommended 10k to 15k resistance, and 1000pF to 1mF (!) capacitance, using .33mF himself. But every Decca was different. There was a device named the "Decade Capacitance Box" that would allow capacitance to be adjusted; with it you fo... | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) is making an ESL speaker with a direct coupled tube power amp. He claims a substantial increase in transparency in comparison to a transformer coupled version. | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc All of the Baroque titles on the Harmonia Mundi label, if you find period instruments "beautiful". | |
| amp or preamp to extend upper end I have always found Vandersteens to be inherently a little soft sounding. Maybe the Krell was compensating for the top end of your speakers. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Most of the difference between the VTPH-1 and VTPH-2 is in the mc section, which was one reason I didn't want to spend so much more for the 2. I have no doubt the 2 is worth the extra $ for mc use, but I don't need the extra gain of the 2---in fac... |