bobandcindy101
Responses from bobandcindy101
| Speaker Cables I like the single-crystal 5-nines silver ones. About $1,500 on Amazon for for 3-meter pairs. Or, make your own from 18 AWG fine silver wire and 1.5 mm PTFE tubing. | |
| New turntable: TW or Obama? I like the Pro-ject turntable line. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Sonny Rollins, Saxaphone Colossus, SR & the Texas Twisters, Mingus, Sarah Vaughn, Mac Rebennack. | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV I traded in my Cornwalls for stacked Wharfedale Linton Heritages and feel it was a significant improvement. | |
| What phono preamp are you using? Pro-ject | |
| What phono preamp are you using? Pro-next Tube Box S2 | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 Yes I’d say so | |
| Reccomend a good preamp for me. I’m happy with my Vincent Audio PHO 300 preamp. | |
| Say a fella wants to build an SET monoblock based on the 300B.. Check out the 300B set amps on ElliotAudio.com. He’s got several designs suitable for your use. | |
| Amethyst versus Nagaoka MP-150/MP-200 I have maybe a dozen cartridges; but no MM, only MC. | |
| How loud are you typically listening? I don’t own an SPL meter. I just adjust the volume to whatever is comfortable and right for the kind of music I’m playing. | |
| Soft, smooth organic SS integrated amps? Schitt makes some nice amps as well. | |
| Soft, smooth organic SS integrated amps? Crown | |
| Soft, smooth organic SS integrated amps? Parasound, Crowm, Arcam, Mark Levinson, Monoprice | |
| how can low watt tube amps drive speakers with higher power requirements I build my own custom tube amps for sale and for my own use. My favorite design is a pair of NOS 300B tubes operated in single-ended, ultra-linear mode. About 15 watts RMS output. It drives even the most power-hungry speakers st acceptable volume... |