carl_eber
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| Kimber Monocle X vs. XL vs. 4TC I have 8TC, which is close to Monocle X. Monocle XL would be preferrable if your power amp has a very high damping factor (over 500). IS THIS A MARK LEVINSON AMP? You'd probably like the XL better, because there's more conductor in parallel, to le... | |
| List or discuss your favorite music DG: Is this the same Steve Smith that was Journey's drummer? Do you know him? AG: Forgive my stupidity, but what does "IMHO" mean? | |
| List or discuss your favorite music I just have Journey. What are the best 2 or 3 CD's from SS? Drummers are cool, but don't you have some hearing loss? Drums are extremely loud. | |
| Hum from a Golden Tube SE-40 ! Try turning your IEC connector around backwards when you plug it into the outlet, FOR EITHER THE PREAMP OR POWER AMP. Just do one of them. | |
| speaker cables?straightwire maestro vs. Yes, 8TC can sound a tad rough, and indeed the SW Virtuoso was smoother. But compared with Dragon, 8TC is actually MORE DYNAMIC. It's just that drum sticks sound a little like they're made of rubber, instead of hardwood. Virtuoso was leaning in th... | |
| speakers bottoming out You're playing them too loud, so you need a bigger speaker, or else turn the volume down. IF YOU CAN GET A CATALOG LIKE THE SOLEN ONE, you can usually look up the maximum excursion limits of the woofers (if they're spec'ed and in the catalog). Dyn... | |
| speaker cables?straightwire maestro vs. I tried Straightwire Virtuoso and compaired it against Kimber 8TC and AudioTruth Dragon. The SW was nice, but I preferred the 8TC over it. Since this Kimber is under the price of the Analysis Plus, you might consider it before the AP...just a thou... | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? A TUBE AMP WITH INFINITELY HIGH DAMPING FACTOR?? If that's possible, I'D LOVE TO HEAR IT. Let me borrow yours a while, why don't ya?? | |
| Sonic benefits of Class A? What amps do you design? Perhaps I've heard of them. Hope it takes longer than "a couple of years" to learn to design any worth listening to, heh heh. | |
| List or discuss your favorite music I like most classic and modern rock also, too bad it's usually not recorded as well as the audiophile stuff. | |
| The best used preamp and d/a converter The BEL CANTO UPsamples (with a slow roll off filter that doesn't kill the top octave like Wadia's) and has much jitter reduction ciruitry (as well as the highest quality caps and resistors), therefore it plays CD's better than a 24/96 DAC that DO... | |
| looking for help on infinity drivers If you're blowing woofers, they must not be too powerful. I blew an ElectroVoice 15 inch woofer once, but it took a very powerful Crown amp to do it, playing out doors...heh heh. | |
| Thiel CS7.2 and Levinson amp and preamp Interesting that you find that MIT cables synergize with A PASSIVE PREAMP. I too am a TOTAL fan of MIT cables (just got the 350 EVO's), but I'M NOT A FAN OF PASSIVE PREAMPS. MY CD player runs my Krell amp directly, AND IT'S PLENTY TRANPARENT AND H... | |
| Cable Recommendation With the Super Zeros, it shouldn't be too tuff. Audition the ones in your price range from several different companies. You might start with Kimber 4TC or 8TC, Straightwire Encore or Rhapsody, or Harmonic Technology Pro-11. YOU CAN'T JUST FIGURE O... | |
| Sonic benefits of Class A? What you're describing is single-ended vs. push-pull. Class A means that all of the output transistors or tubes ARE BIASED TO IDLE AT FULL POWER ALL THE TIME (unless their bias is computer controlled, like the Krell FPB series). EITHER SINGLE ENDE... |