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| Spatial Computer Velocity Bridge VB1 Cdente, the VB1s should be delivered tomorrow. If so, I'll road test em' and report back. | |
| VPI Traveler Frogman, the last part of my comment you quoted above (re Bearpaw Feet) was a friendly poke directed at Stringreen, who is probably quite correct with his suggestion. But Jack really did say that the new circuit will not improve the operating spec... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Mulveling ...., Al (Almarg) and Ralph (Atmasphere) have already answered the question. Ask the company how the speaker was voiced. That is, was it designed to be driven by a Voltage Paradigm amp (solid state - constant voltage source; extremely lo... | |
| New KT150 tubes? Gary (Hifigeek) -- does ARC still hold that the KT-120s have a 2000 useful life. I thought I read a 2012 review of the Ref 150 that quoted an ARC rep as saying the KT-120 tube life was considerably longer. In the same view, is the 6550 WE tube lif... | |
| VPI Traveler String ... and Brf -- I spoke with Jack at VPI yesterday about the new changes made in the Classic TT. Most are gingerbread (e.g., button on top rather than side). As to the new circuit board, Jack said it's really more of a manufacturing convenie... | |
| Best Audio Electronics for Paradigm S8v3 Speakers Cdente, .... not sure this matters, but Paradigm switched out aluminum tweeter on the Signature line 7 or 8 years ago. The Signature line now uses beryllium tweeter and cobalt/aluminum mids. Supposedly, the be tweeter extend out to 45K Hz. The nei... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Metralla, what is your opinion re the Steve Hoffman hybrid? | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Unsound, you may be right. But here's a little exercise that might be of interest to you and/or others that responds to your last quip. I make several references to the 2013 Stereophile list of recommended components, which includes recommended tu... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Jwm, please re-read the quote, and perhaps the article too. What you said is exactly what the author IS saying. I thought the article was quite interesting because the author made a very cogent case maintaining that the redbook CD format of 16 bit... | |
| manufactured refurbished Wnbode, although your OP refers to a specific amp and manufacturer, the OP title asks an even broader question. That being whether one should consider buying refurbished goods from any company. In my case, I've bought re-furbed HP computers that h... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Clockmeister ... not sure exactly what Ken Zelin had in mind. If he noticed that the sound and timber of the system changed as a function of the amp's output tap used, and therefore suggested that one compensate by adjusting room acoustic characte... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Unsound .... I'm not aware of any tube amp that functions "SS-like" and that can adapt to a speaker's impedance variations. Not to say there isn't such a beast out there. Just don't know what the model is. The closest analogy I can think of is the... | |
| VPI Traveler String .. , you're pretty close with the VPI folks. Do you think I can re-configure my Classic TT to incorporate the new mod? I might even exchange the motor for the 300 rpm motor used in the Classic 3. You may recall that I already upgraded the c... | |
| Best Audio Electronics for Paradigm S8v3 Speakers Veerapaneni ... no surprise since the P2 and P5 are top of the line high powered SS amps made by Anthem, a division of Paradigm. | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Unsound .... I'm not sure if we are saying the same thing, but just speaking past each other. Let me try it another way re sensitivity.I surmise Ralph and Al might say that matching (1) a speaker with low sensitivity and that was designed to be dr... |