bifwynne
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| Audio Research Ref. 3, Ref. 5, or the Ref. 5se. Agree with David12 comments about the differences between the Ref 3, 5 and 5 SE. I owned all three and currently still own the Ref 5 SE. The only caveat I have is that all the ARC Ref preamps require that the input impedance of the amp NOT be le... | |
| New format, dislike..... Ok ... it's different. would try to design it more like Audio Shark, where one can respond to each individual post in a quote. Also, I am having a problem typing messages. It seems like I have stuck or slow keys. And yes, my keyboard is fine. | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 severe distortion czarivey1"It looks like AudioReseach Ref series are similar to Ferrari that have great performance but for the price of poor reliability.Czarivey ... strongly disagree. I am waiting for Sha to respond to my post. | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 severe distortion Shaq ...could be bad tubes; could be blown bias resisters. Switch "good" tubes into the sockets that read 20 mV. If the bias stays at 20 mV, that's a good sign there's a blown bias resister. If the bias can be adjusted to 65 mV and the problem mov... | |
| Questions on KT150 tubes Ditto with what the "Wolfman" says. I have KT-150s in my ARC Ref 150 SE. When listening to music selections that I hadn't heard in a while (pre-KT-150), I am amazed by the difference. Yes ... they are expensive, but ARC tells me that the KT-150s s... | |
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| How much difference if the tonearm is mounted 5mm Calvin ... did you try a Baerwald (sp) protractor? Just curious if you still come up short. | |
| Tonearm ringing excited during playback Stan and OP:VE reports that the JMW Memorial 9 Signature arm mass is 9.5 grams. I assume that is the arm's effective mass. VE also reports that the Benz Micro Ebony H has a rated compliance of 14 and has a mass of 9.6 grams. And finally, I ran the... | |
| Tonearm ringing excited during playback Did you check to make sure that the compliance rating of the Benz-Micro Ebony H is compatible with the effective mass of the JMW-Signature arm? If not, the rig will not track properly. I've been there and one it with a number of other cartridges t... | |
| How much difference if the tonearm is mounted 5mm I am probably restating what the others said above. It comes down to the protractor geometry in question, which as the others said, starts with spindle to pivot distance. It's just that simple. If your VPI came with a protractor, you will know imm... | |
| Are Revel and Paradigm Stuck? FYI: I called Paradigm customer tech support. Here's what I learned:Paradigm has no current plans to change the Signature 8 (v3) ... period. The tech guy said that Paradigm did show a prototype concept speaker not too long ago that featured a BE t... | |
| What's a contender to an Audio Reference 5 SE? Tsushima1, ... no doubt when Bo did the Ref 5 SE shootout, presumably with the Pass XP-20, he might have literally shot the Ref 5 SE. No wonder it didn't compare well. IME, ARC gear sounds best when you don't shoot it.Fortunately, Bo didn't listen... | |
| What's a contender to an Audio Reference 5 SE? A Radio Shack compact combo boom box stereo/Swiss army knife. | |
| Advice re the use of OTL amps vs others Wow!! Unsound. I never heard Dunlavy speakers, but on paper they are quite impressive. Are they time coherent? If so, add them to the short list of 3 or so other brands that are. | |
| $510.00 for an Aluminum cover for the ARC Ref. 10? Guys ... you're overworking this issue. Acrylic or aluminum or no cover at all .... it's all BS. I've listened to my Ref 150 SE and Ref 5 SE with and without aluminum covers. Couldn't hear a difference. The real problem is audiophile-nervosa. I ha... |