bpwalsh
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| So Many Apogees for sale, and so few takers Hi Bob (Baranyi), I'm doing great and hope you are, too. Sorry to hear you weren't able to try the Lazarus, but so it goes, and I gather you gave up on the Apogee project. Anyway, stop by next time you're up this way, I'm open just about 24/7 :-) | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? It's better when the technical method correlates well with the ear. Less guesswork and time, and unanimous glowing testimonials. | |
| In Illinois, who can professionally set-up my Linn I owned an LP12 as my first high end 'table. While I moved on to others and ultimately became a dealer for other brands, it served me well.As Catastrofe mentioned, I am in the Chicago area (northwest suburbs) but travel regularly to assist clients... | |
| What happened to Welborne Labs? Islandmandan, unfortunately Ron Welborne vanished from the scene several years ago. If you do a web search on Welborne Labs you'll probably see many red flags. It's a pity, but if it cost you $100 instead of thousands as it did for some, you might... | |
| "Brand New"...I don't think so I always wondered what the difference is between "new" and "brand new."It could be the topic of a Seinfeld episode. | |
| Setting Azimuth Lewm: No, I take no issue with the point about azimuth adjustment not being a way to change channel balance. Far from it.Doug: I agree with your remark about overpriced gadgets, but adjusting by trial and error without measurement can be akin to t... | |
| Setting Azimuth And adjusting azimuth is done to minimize crosstalk. Period.Wrong. You heard what I did with your neighbor Michael's rig. Minimizing crosstalk was not the objective. | |
| Setting Azimuth The Fozgometer measures crosstalk and channel levels, and that's it. Good enough to get you in the ballpark but not worth $250 IMNSHO. Minimizing phase error is what's important, which isn't necessarily at the same azimuth setting as minimum cross... | |
| Best Solid State for Avalon Isis Rtn1's Karan 1200 monoblocks had pins 1 and 3 on the XLR inputs reversed, which he could verify. Normally pin 1 is ground and pin 3 is return, however in this case pin 1 was return and pin 3 was ground.It is my understanding this is true of some a... | |
| Local dealer has ESP 08-07-12: ChadnlizPretty sure every dealer does this to some degree but few are stupid or arrogant enough to say it outloud. I had faith in dealers but that isnt really the case anymore. Service, respect and ones word is remembered long after pric... | |
| My Marantz TT-15 and Parasound JC3 don't get along Not at all, Bondmanp. My customers love the JC 3, no noise issues. There's a lot we don't know without seeing what's there. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? there has been over eleven firmware upgrades to the player including last summerWow. | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. | |
| McIntosh MA-6900 Integrated Amp - Your Thoughts? Be sure to try reversing your speaker cables +/- because it inverts polarity. | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? After reading the past week's posts to this thread, I throw in my two cents' worth about Joe Trelli (Trelja). Although he and I are only acquainted from a few private emails and reading each other's posts over the years, I know of his past manufac... |