bigkidz
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| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? what were you really anticipating in the improvement? You can get much better permanent improvements with upgrading power supply capacitors and resistors, AC filter chokes, etc. A power cord cannot touch those kinds of upgrades. Happy Listen... | |
| Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar? Although I don't play classical guitars, I would imagine that the different wood, set-ups, make them more playable from each other and sound different. But a good guitarist doesn't really need a great guitar to sound good, if you know what I mean... | |
| Vandersteen Aficianados please step inside (Quatro) @ozzy62 - get an amp that offers negative feedback like the Ayre amps do. That is what makes them shine. The 60WPC is plenty. I drive mine with our Class A mono block amps 40wpc. I also have driven my Sevens with a 28wpc power amp. Call John R... | |
| Thoughts? - First Watt F8 / Vandersteen Treo's @charles1dad no it was an older model that we repaired it has a 520 tube if I recall correctly. The amp is not made any longer but on the Vandy Sevens, WOW! It lit them up. The Vandy's do not need power and the First Watt will work just fine un... | |
| Thoughts? - First Watt F8 / Vandersteen Treo's @tomic601 is correct. They are not hard to drive at all for great sound. Comments like these are simply not correct: That amp will not cope well with very hard to drive Vandersteen speakers. I would echo Soix's POV exactly. Those speakers ne... | |
| Audio Research Pre-Amp advice +1 on not worrying about service. Most will never need service, they are built to last a lifetime and Audio Research prides itself on servicing older models and having an extensive parts stockroom. Should you keep it for decades, then any competen... | |
| Back to the DAC Of all the DACs above I would audition the MSB DACs. IMO, they sounded the best of all of the SS designs. The Lampizator can be upgraded (by me) to sound excellent. You can find a post somewhere on Agon where we did one for a customer. That op... | |
| Guess who has new speakers in their lab? OK everyone it's me. We just put together new speakers and are amazed at the sound. | |
| Suggestions for power amps Look into the line magnetics gear. I heard the integrated amp and I was impressed. They use excellent transformers also which is key to making a good power amplifier. | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? @seanheis1 Maybe. I am always up to learn new things. If you are ever in New Jersey, shoot me a message and swing by, We should be at Audio Connection in Verona real soon with our 6SN7 tube preamp and 6SN7 hybrid power amplifier. Always, Happy... | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? @seanheis1 - I am not sure what the graph will tell you. You may know more than I do in that regard. BUT in manufacturing equipment, I guess I can tailor components to produce the sound I prefer. I am not convinced that you can tell from a grap... | |
| Quicksilver silver 60 amplifiers FYI they are no longer made if that makes a difference. Very good bargain for the price if you want to get into tubes. What is your price range? Happy Listening. | |
| Dickie Betts died earlier today at 80 years of age Wore out live at Fillmore many times. My friends brother took us to see them back then. Started playing the geetar because of them. Own 6 Les Paul guitars because of them. I'll have to break out my Gold Top tonight. Gary Paul is a friend of m... | |
| Please recommend a coax SPDIF cable similar to the Nordost Tyr 2 Just bite the bullet and buy the Jorma digital cable and be done with all this. It is above the other price points but below the other expensive digital cables. We have tried so many, heard so many, this is what we have settled on in our listeni... | |
| Measurement Bias Not I or anyone I know have purchased any piece of equipment based on any kind of measurement. I'll have to start asking people and see what I find out. We build components and we do measure the parts quality to match certain parts as we believe... |