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| Andrew Singer of Sound By Singer I agree with the above comments of Zd542. The worst transaction I have ever had on Audiogon was with Mr. Singer a couple of years ago. I had to spend over $1,000 to get a supposedly "new with factory warranty" amp repaired, as well as replacing th... | |
| Question about replacing 12AU7 tubes. Both the driver and input tube will have a noticeable influence upon the sound of the amps. I could not find any info on the net in regards to which is which. Does your manual say anything about them? I'm sure Dared could tell you if you have an e... | |
| Question about replacing 12AU7 tubes. Your VP 300B amps have a single 12AU7 driver tube, and a single 12AU7 input tube. You do not have to use the same type of 12AU7 for both positions. You should, however buy two matched pairs. Amperex 12AU7's and 7316's are excellent tubes, as are t... | |
| DAC Burn-In Question No, the pre-amp does not have to be set to the DAC in order to burn it in the way you are doing it. You are fine.... | |
| Seeking more 3d imaging, deeper/wider soundstage Hello! I have a similar sized, small room, and I can assure you that some affordable acoustic panels would be my first concern towards improving soundstage and imaging. Without them, you will never know how good things can sound in there. The foam... | |
| Upgrading interconnects It sounds like your "weakest link" at the moment is the pre-amp section of your receiver. Upgrading the cables for 2 channel music use might not do as much as upgrading to an affordable, simple pre-amp such as a good LDR or passive. After that, a ... | |
| 12V deep cycle battery to power Trends integrated That will work just fine, and should provide you with many hours of listening with a fairly efficient pair of speakers. What will you be using as as source? | |
| Preamp for Job 225 Djverne;All of the LDR pre-amps I mentioned (Warpspeed, Lightspeed and Tortuga) require a single AC/DC power supply. I will be selling the Lightspeed this coming week, and will be keeping the TAP-X and my AUM Acoustics Tortuga board based LDR. I a... | |
| Preamp for Job 225 I have spent a lot of time listening to my JOB 225 amp with the Lightspeed, Warpspeed and Tortuga based LDR passive pre-amps, as well as the current Bent Audio TAP-X passive autoformer I am using. I can tell you that the latest units from Tortuga ... | |
| Talkin' 'bout my De Capo's No doubt, the de Capos are hard to live without...A true conveyor of music with few faults. After owning three different pairs and moving "up" a bit in the Reference 3A line to the 3A Episodes, I still miss my De Capos and I love my Episodes! | |
| Copper®Harmony RCA Plug - a new breed I got the opportunity to hear the new Copper Harmony RCA ends myself this past week, in comparison to the standard copper Bullet connectors. Your review is spot on, and I agree with you all around on your assesment. Much faster, more attack, bette... | |
| Is 10AWG copper wire sufficient How many feet long are your cables? 10 Ga. wire is awful heavy, and probably not necessary for the sake of current delivery for normal length runs. | |
| Battery powered cabin system The 10.1 will play for a VERY long time if you run it off a 12 volt deep cycle marine battery...Probably a few good months of listening, if you match the amp to some efficient speakers. You would not need a generator to re-charge the battery. Pick... | |
| Thanks Jim Hall Yes, he will be missed by many...excellent guitarist! | |
| Integrated Feeding Integrated Most integrated amps out there do not have very good sounding attenuators, and going through both with your signal will only degrade sound quality more. I would suggest you do it another way. |