bigkidz
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| Best tube preamp ever I am just about finished with my DHT preamp. If anyone in the local NYC area wants to hear what this preamp can do in their system, let me know. I think you will be very suprised on what you hear. Shoot me an email and we can arragne a meeting to ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I wanted to add my thought on what I heard with the new High Fidelity CT-1 interconnects designed by Rick Schultz. I only had one pair of interconnects to use in my system and I placed them between the preamp and power amp. I let them break in con... | |
| Vandersteen Model 5 speakers Babybear thanks I meant to say the 7" driver. They work with no issues so I will wait on the x-overs and look into the battery pack. My local vandy dealer offered to help me out with set-up. | |
| Vandersteen Model 5 speakers I spoke to a dealer and he told me that the damage would be to the mid-range driver as it could not handle the low end and could warp the voice coil.Pmotz can you send me instrudtions on home made filter to bigkidz@optonline.net?I purchased an old... | |
| How are Hig-End Speakers Priced? Here is my example to my preamp. To develop my preamp it cost me over 5,000 in various parts just to try them out to see how the preamp would sound. Along the way there were so many changes based upon parts availability and how they worked togethe... | |
| Differences between SR Tesla and Supra Sword Lots of Wiener Wagging going on here! LOL! | |
| How are Hig-End Speakers Priced? 5 times the cost is what I was told also. I am building a preamp for commercail sale and after I added it all up, it would be priced at over $10K by this standard. Parts add up quickly. | |
| Meadowlark Nighthawk, Heron, Heron i, Blue Heron 2 I am looking to hook up with an audio club in Texas to introduce my new preamp (transfomer coupled DHT). Do you belong to a club or know of one?Thanks | |
| Counterpoint SA20 J is correct when he states - I know how to repair these things but based on my experience with SA100, SA220, NP100, and NP220 your best bet is to get a basic rebuild from Mike and add an upgraded Hammond 158L choke. He got me started and then I h... | |
| Meadowlark Nighthawk, Heron, Heron i, Blue Heron 2 Thanks GMC. I read some of your posts on the BH2s and I just purchased the Nighthawks for a song. I amost pull th etrigger on the BH 1s but got cold feet about the tweeter. Where are you located? | |
| Best tube preamp ever I agree with Jazdoc. I will have a DHT preamp which can use any of these tubes 101D, 26, 226, 326 out next month. All point to point wiring, transformer volume control and custom made transformers which after trying out more than I can count on on... | |
| Best tube preamp ever Gago1101 where do you live? I amy be able to help you out with preamp selection. I have a few items for sale on Audiogon now so you can send me a message through one of my ads (don't worry I am not going to push my COunterpoint SA-5000 on you) I j... | |
| Best of old model speakers under $1800 vs my Alons Yeah Grannyring, you purchased the ones on Agon that I was waiting for pictures of. You @#$*%&^%#(#) | |
| Best of old model speakers under $1800 vs my Alons Bob, waht speakers have you heard that these speakers compete with? | |
| Talon khorus vs. Nola Viper iia "The Khorus is a mess of a speaker. No bass, a muffled and distant midrange. Serious phase issues. Everything sounds like a blanket was thrown over them. Have to be cranked to max to sound good and by then you are deaf."Interesting, not what I hea... |