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| Question for Rowland aficionados Maybe I can ask this question without hijacking Drubin's thread(!) :-Re. the new Model 201 monos: are they class-D power amps?? They are very light for 250W/ch! Plus, I don't see much heat-sinking fins on the chassis. Has any one of you JRDG afici... | |
| New Buddy Guy - "Blues Singer" Surfgod,Thanks for that Buddy Guy reco to all of us. I must try to lay my hands on that. Do you know if it is available on vinyl?I have Buddy Guy's "I Left My Blues in San Fransisco" on vinyl. I can say that I'm very disappointed by it - I find Bu... | |
| The Denon DL cartrige family as a few members, If I may be allowed to supplement TWL's post then:The Denon cartridge members are: DL-103, DL-103D, DL-103R, DL-103S. DL-103C is a conical stylus MC cart. Hence the "C" designator. DL-103R has PC-OCC (pure copper using Ohno long-grain copper casti... | |
| Replacing Sovtek 6922 for NOS Here's some info:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1043181503&read&keyw&zz6922ehFWIW | |
| CAT Ultimate Mark Two upgrade? Yhyun,Here is the info:http://cgim.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/manu.pl?convergentaudio&1&showmanu&C&&& | |
| CAT Ultimate Mark Two upgrade? Bruno,I have the CAT Sig Mk3 & have no experience with the Ultimate Mk1 or Mk2. However, I have spoken with Ken Stevens many times & specifically asked him what the Ultimate Mk2 was all about. From what he told me is seems that the main pu... | |
| Music Maker II cartridge TWL,Thanks for your impressions of the MM II MM cart. I thought that Grados had the highest compliance but I was wrong when I looked at many of the Van den Hul & MM II cartridges! Cartridges from these 2 companies seem to follow the same philo... | |
| Just how good is the Vandersteen 5A? You might find these interesting to read:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1070120851&read&keyw&zzvandersteenhttp://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1070146234&read&keyw&zzvandersteenHope that this... | |
| Preamp for Clayton Audio S40? Newbee,>>IMHO the user should keep an open mind should he have an >>inclination to a tube pre-amp and not just blindly >>exclude one because of this reviewers comments.Fully agree with your opinion! I'm of the same mind. However,... | |
| Preamp for Clayton Audio S40? Newbee,Yes, I'm quite sure that I know about input impedances & their loading effects on the prior stage. What I was trying to say in my post was that despite Clayton amps having a reasonably high inp. impedance, it might not be high enough as... | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel ROTFLMAO!!!!Jadem6, you had all that time to write your life history?? I used up my entire box of Kleenex tissues reading your sad tale! | |
| Green Mountain Audio still in business? Welcome to the Green Mountain "family", Gmood1! Glad to read that you are really enjoying the Europas. | |
| Preamp for Clayton Audio S40? No personal experience with the S40 or M100 but did an awful lot of research on them as they were #1 on my list to buy when I was searching for power amps. Their un-availabilty in the used market made me look elsewhere. You might want to read this... | |
| Imaging and soundstage The way *I* understand it:-Yes, seating distance from wall behind the listener does play a role in imaging & soundstaging. The room will, usually, develop resonances between the centers of the wall behind the speakers & the wall behind the... | |
| Which amplifier to drive B&W Nautilus 802? manufari,Gregm gives you good advice. I happen to agree with him as that was my personal experience as a former B&W owner.I used to own a pair of the (less exalted) DM series & even tho I had them hooked up to my (German) Symphonic Line am... |