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| Problem with AR Ref 300 Mk II - any experience? Otto, you mused, "I wonder if a bad tube can cause this (assuming that the replacement tube I purchased at ebay is bad - despite its detailled description)." The answer is yes. If a tube arc'ed it can take out passives such as bias resisters. An o... | |
| Problem with AR Ref 300 Mk II - any experience? Ozatschek, 2 quick follow-up points. One -- each amp weighs 132 pounds. I would try and find someone who does house calls. No joke. There's an ARC authorized service tech who lives near my house and makes house calls. He was over about 2 or 3 week... | |
| 4 OHM or 8 OHM Speaker ...... Perhaps even as important, if not more so, are the following other considerations: (1) the speaker's sensitivity; (2) the speaker's impedance curve as a function of frequency response; (3) the speaker's phase angle function, also as a function of ... | |
| Use Your Own Ears Sorry Wolf. Right you are. Maybe I should either dump my ARC gear and (1) pick up some Radio Shack stuff, or (2) pick up some $100K gear, financed by me selling my house. Uuuhmmm. Decisions, ... decisions. Btw, where does that hermit live?? | |
| Problem with AR Ref 300 Mk II - any experience? If you are on the West Coast, Gary (Hifigeek1) is an authorized ARC service tech and can he you. You can e mail him through the A'gon system. If not, call ARC and ask for Kal. He can put you in contact with a local ARC authorized service center, b... | |
| New Wilson Shasha W/P Series 2 Samhar ... just looked up your system. Gorgeous system and gorgeous room. Just love the back wall. Did you use sound treatments for your room? My wife has given me permission to "refresh" the decor in my basement/soundroom, e.g., paint, new sofa, ... | |
| Where are the female Audiophiles? Ok ... I'll bite. Here's my take on politics and high office. In my opinion, to qualify for high office, one should be sane. If one wants such a job, he or she must be crazy. Therefore, anyone who wants to be in high office is automatically disqua... | |
| Use Your Own Ears Ricred1 ..., I agree 100% with your comments. And so do many others. Here's a "sanitized" version of an e-mail I sent last summer to a reviewer with whom I have occasionally traded messages over the years. The e-mail describes my experience compar... | |
| New KT150 tubes? Gary (Hifigeek) - looking forward to reading your reactions after CES. Hopefully, even if ARC should decide NOT to sell/or use the KT-150s, it will at least advise whether the KT-150s may still be used in ARC amps at the customer's option. IOW, th... | |
| Clearaudio Azimuth Optimizer V Fozgometer Lew ..., my experiences are the same as Don's. I own a VPI Classic 2.5 (that is a Classic 1/2 plinth and Classic 3 tone arm), plus the S-S Intuit for fine adjustments. I set azimuth with the VPI skinny aluminum bar and use a metric rule to measure... | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Thanks for the Silver Resolution PC site. I'll check it out. My reference to "plaid" is explained in my 12/27/13 post just above. I don't know how old you are, but you'd have to have seen the Mel Brooks side splitter, Space Balls to get it. If you... | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? Hey Charles, did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night?? Just checking. Happy New Year again. | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? Dbarger .... I'm not a EE, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night. ;') | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Thanks Willie .... btw, I think I mentioned that my speaker cables are the Kimber 8PRs. At this point, my power cables are stock ARC, which I understand are "good" PCs. As a point of interest, when Stereophile reviewed my amp in 2012, the reviewer... | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Thanks Willie .... as Al (Almarg) has mentioned in other contexts, technical specs and stats will take one only so far. Beyond some murky point, there are just so many variables in play, you gotta go with your ears. Seems like the same holds with ... |