bpwalsh
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| Best tube pre-amp below US $ 10.000,00 ? Frankpiet, there are big differences between the CAT SL1 Ultimate and the Hovland...on your fine speakers you would hear them immediately.Since your amp has balanced inputs you might also consider a preamp fully balanced throughout, and there are ... | |
| Tube Amps: CAT JL3's vs ARC Ref 300's Raquel, the CAT JL3s are rated at 150 watts, not 200. Real world performance, however, seems to belie this rating.Brian | |
| What was/is the heaviest weight amp you herd/own The Shoreline 800s also come to mind, although no weight is stated. | |
| Tube Amps: CAT JL3's vs ARC Ref 300's With what associated equipment, especially loudspeakers?Brian | |
| What was/is the heaviest weight amp you herd/own Krell Master Reference monoblocks, about 600 lb. each, heard at CES several years ago at introduction. Wouldn't own them. | |
| Amp Help ICE or Class D Heard a pair of NuForce amps recently. Analog switching type. Not sure I agree where you're coming from, Plato, as you did not say what they were compared to and describe the rest of the system. | |
| ELP laser turntable - any comments? I must express a dissenting opinion. While the ELP 'table is of significant value for playing rare records without wear and archival purposes, I do not find it exceptional sounding. It is competent, but I don't consider it to be up to the level of... | |
| DIY speakers vertical array a la "pipedreams" syst Albert, no dispute about the attractive price and the idea of more folks getting into high end, but you have to weigh the pros and cons...coherency is a high priority from my biased perspective... | |
| DIY speakers vertical array a la "pipedreams" syst The oft-overlooked issue is driver matching. Pipedreams does it the best they can which is why their speakers are so expensive. Hook a couple of drivers together and shine a strobe light on them with a signal generator to do a frequency sweep and ... | |
| ICEpower Digital Switching Amps? In message http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1118928361&openflup&35&4#35 Ar_t identifies himself, but not in subsequent posts - might be a good idea to do so. Looking at the site I see no address or phone number since t... | |
| Full Range Speaker $15-$20000 Range? Among the speakers mentioned, I could recommend the Vandersteen 5As and the Eggleston Andra IIs. The latter really benefit from lots of power, in many cases using big solid state amps. For example, Parasound JC-1s make them come alive. I wouldn't ... | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 Jafox lives in the Minneapolis area. Crazy idea - I'm in the Chicago area which is about halfway in between :-)Brian | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 Raquel: I apologize for not responding about the differences between the JL3 and JL3 Signature, although I asked my CAT dealer friend and haven't received a reply (how's that for a feeble excuse?). One of the significant differences are the output... | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 The CAT JL2 is a better sounding amp than JL1s even though it is less powerful; the JL3s are better still and would be recommended at least with the larger Wilsons. | |
| Inverted phase preamps? Elizabeth wrote:Since 50% of all recordings are phase-inverted, and from one to the next you can't tell except by playing, I would say it does not really matter!!!!!So just mark on the record sleeve or CD case whether the recording is in phase or ... |