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| Question on ASR Emitter II Exclusive Battery Suteetat, the ASR Emmiter II does not have a balanced direct input. The direct input bypasses the input selector and is an RCA connection.The Emmiter II is comprised of four heavy chassis:-main amp/preamp-power supply for left channel-power supply... | |
| Opinions on vintage cj amps and Teflon cap mods I had a chance to compare CJ's proprietary teflon Caps to VH Audio and Relcap teflon caps as coupling caps in a tube preamp.CJ's caps do not sound at all like VH caps. Both are excellent, the CJ caps retain the CJ "magic" while increasing resoluti... | |
| need warm and LAID BACK hi-rez/focused power cord Lyle, taking a closer look at your system it seems to me (IMHO) that the weak links regarding midrange forwardness could be the anti-cables (great for the price but outclassed in your system, IMO) and the metal dome speakers.In general, solid core... | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? Dgarretson, sorry for the late reply.If you read more about the ASR Emmiter II Exclusive Battery amp, you will find out that its preamp sections runs on high-current batteries heavily bypassed with high-quality capacitors. This amp has 3 extra PS ... | |
| Preamplifier power supply Chris, my comments were regarding resistive passive preamps versus transformer passive preamps. Between those, I prefer TVCs.Most preamplifiers are built the traditional way because people need gain, specially audiophiles with phono front ends, lo... | |
| Any cables that give more bass Kijanki, thanks for your response.I listen to mostly jazz, some classical, some world music.You are correct, four string acoustic bass is more common in Jazz.In my personal system evolution, listening to an extensive jazz collection, I have found ... | |
| Gallo Reference 3.x Stands... Anthony Gallo auditioned some prototype stands and approved 8" tall stands.You can also raise the soundtage by adjusting the spikes. I hope this helps | |
| Aural Thrills Teflon RCA Not what you are asking...anyway: I have tried his gold and palladium wire, I prefer 99.99% copper from jeweler suppliers.If you want an affordable low mass gold-plated connector, try Vampire CX7-CB. It is made of OFC copper with direct gold plati... | |
| rca plugs - comparisons? I have made identical ICs with 99.99 % pure copper cryo'd solid core wire, good metal-to-metal contact and Cardas solder with the following RCA plugs:WBT Midline, WBT solderless, WBT nextgen gold and silver, Eichman gold, Xhadow, Cardas silver/rho... | |
| Any cables that give more bass Kijanki, the lowest bass note is 44Hz on the electric bass only. Acoustic bass / double bass / contrabass reaches 31 Hz and grand piano's lowest bass note is 27.5 Hz, clearly out of the frequency response of the OP's speakers.http://en.wikipedia.o... | |
| nordost red dawn: problem, please help Maybe you are playing at louder levels to compensate for the Red Dawn lean bass...this could trigger the amp's protection circuit as Stringreen pointed out.OR the Red dawn cables are picking up RFI (they are unshielded and your amp is struggling t... | |
| The best phono stage out there? I agree with Atmasphere's posts.Some phono stages (mostly tubed and with no NFB) pass record noise as a "background" effect, barely noticeable, a very fast and clean transient that fades quickly, while others (mostly SS with lots of NFB) seem to e... | |
| Vinyl sounds a bit thin and slightly strident. I have owned Benz cartridges and ARC phono stages, I agree with most of the comments so far.First, Benz cartridges excel in the midrange. Do not expect great bass punch from a Benz cartridge. Treble can become desimbodied from the midrange if the ... | |
| Opinions: ML 390S, Esoteric D70, Opus21, Capitole? I would like to add that the Phillips CD Pro2 transport used in the Capitole is in current production and available through Phillips parts centers and jukebox parts / repair centers, for example Pinvam.com and Enco Systems. The european distributo... | |
| Duelund Capacitors?? Steven, the bypass high-quality cap is connected in paralell with the larger, less expensive cap. Their values add. In the example above, 4.5 uF + .5 uF = 5 uF. The combo replaces a 5 uF cap in the crossover. |