charles1dad
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| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Ozzy, I'm glad that the acquisition of the Atma-Sphere power amplifiers worked out well for you, it's apparent that you're very pleased with their sound. What is their most noticeable contribution to your system?Charles | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? I can only recount my experience with balanced AC power. If you had no benefit with it placed in your system, so be it. We had very different outcomes for whatever the reasons may be.Charles | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? Good reasoning. I'd choose balanced AC power vs a power generator to achieve greater sonic impact and overall audio system improvement.Charles | |
| Are there any $1500 tube preamps that that can compare with Tubes4hifi's SP14? Hi, I disagree with the statement that tube preamps have a minimum gain of 20. My Line Stage has 10 dB of gain and some active preamps have only 6 to 8 db of gain. 9 pin tubes are the most common choice for preamps however 8 pin (octal) are excel... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Hi Frank,I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the "care package".Thanks, Charles | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Hi Frank,I've listened to 2 Jo Stafford CDs, "Ballad Of The Blues" and "Jo+Jazz".I find the latter to be the better of the two both musically and recording quality. She's terrific with these first rate musicians. Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, C... | |
| Are there any $1500 tube preamps that that can compare with Tubes4hifi's SP14? Hello hausera, Look into the Linear Tube Audio Micro ZOTL line stage (Mz2-s) . Owners on this site and reviewers are quite enthusiastic about its sound quality. Audiogon member teajay (Terry London) reviewed it for hometheaterreview.com and write... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Teajay, Is a very credible reviewer who admirably avoids hyperbole. When he says the Tekton DI competes with expensive speakers such as the Wilson Sasha and Linear Tube Audio competes with his Pass Labs components I don't doubt him. This is exce... | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? I was pretty confident Leotis that the innate qualities of balanced AC power would be apparent once you actually did some listening. . As you note, decreased noise and absolutely no loss of the music (in fact there’s more musical nuance and inform... | |
| Airtight 300b or Coincident 300b? Chaccone, There are definitely very high quality 300b SET amplifiers in the marketplace to choose among. I have owned the Coincident Frankenstein MK II for 7 1/2 years and it is wonderfully natural and realistic in its presentation. The Airtight ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Jond, I notice we seem to agree with each other often on these forums . Here we go once again 😊 As with you I have no problem with the anti upgrade fuse brigade. All opinions and experiences should be presented. At the end of the day it’s audio wh... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? Sherod,I’ve met Mr. Lee on several occasions and he is very gracious, friendly and accommodating. He’s proud of his speakers and deservedly so. They are the result of much time, effort and talent he has put forth. I believe that he takes the posit... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... For the record so do I. If he heard no difference so be it. . I also trust the listening impressions of the multitude who report very positive findings, many who happen to be well seasoned members on audiogon. They represent every bit as much cred... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Cleeds,Yes I agree there are limits to expectation bias. My point is that those who attribute all positive outcomes with the Black fuses to this bias are being disingenuous and ultimately intellectually lazy. Even at the late stages (15 months at ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Jafreeman, I’m sure most reasonable people will acknowledge that "expectation bias " is applicable to both positive and "negative " positions. . You can certainly be convinced that something is not possible and this adamant mindset potentially inh... |