charliee
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| Great country music recording Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" Good musicall the way thru, no steel guitar tho. Very good recording,and a Grammy winner to boot.A while back I was in an audio shop to listen to a few pair of Sonus Faber speakers, and that was one o... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Saint2I owned a VTL 5.5 in the past, and what I recall from themanuel is that you have to adjust the volume seperatelywith the 5.5 and your home theatre pre amp.The "Unity Gain"wasn't a set and forget operation with that pre amp.Also, even tho it ... | |
| What is Paypal charging you? Sc53,Log on to your account, then click on,"help" @ the top right corner.Then,Under catagories click on, "Getting started", Then,Click on, Premeir & Business,Then,Scroll down the column of questions in the right hand column untill you see,"Can... | |
| What is Paypal charging you? If you go with the basic membership, and cash only, you dont get charged. It's the upgraded levels and the credit card transactions where you get dinged.That is the only way around the fee, which they must be able to change without notice. | |
| Fancy wall plugs? Ditto on the ditto on the ditto on the ditto.Porter Ports, skip the rest, and go with the best. I havethree myself, plus several of the others out there that I tried first.I wish I could start over and save the time and $ spentbefore discovering S... | |
| VTL 5.5 or Audible Illusions L2 linestage Baranyi,I cant comment on the phono stage personally as my turn-table is incomplete, and I have yet to use it with theSyrah. As to the Berning, I would order one in a heart beatif I had differant speakers, not a good match for Mani II'sApparantly ... | |
| VTL 5.5 or Audible Illusions L2 linestage Monk,I owned a 5.5 before my present pre amp, the Supratek Syrah. I thought that it was a pretty good pre amp at thetime. And you can move the performance up a notch by re-placeing the stock tubes which are merely adequate. Thelargest improvement ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century ClipsalI am useing the Syrah, and not the Sauvignon. I am useingthe W.E.350B along with the Sylvania metal base 6SN7W, and the Bendix Redbank 6106 as the rectifier. This combo has dynamics in spades, and the bass which hadbeen MIA with 5881's 6L6,... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Swamp,Sounds like you have flipped the tape monitor switch, areyou sure that you do not have one? It would be on top, right front corner. I did that once without knowing that I had, same results that you are describing. | |
| Do you own a Benz Lukaschek PP-1 phono pre? Drubin,I previously owned a PP-1 and the factory wall wart was asimple step down transformer (110 to 24V). I went to Radio Shack and picked up another to replace it with for less than $20The one you will get from Benz will not be any better, just ... | |
| B&W Nautilus 803's vs. Proac 2.5's The N803 was on my short list of four differant speakerswhen I was shopping for new speakers. The others were the 2.5's Totem Mani II, and Sonus Faber Grand Piano.After listening to all of them numerous times it was still hard to decide. One thing... | |
| Norah's new album,,FEB 9th. Can she do it again??? Ben_campbell- Thanks man, I knew about five seconds after Ihit submit that I had made a mistake. I started to flip thru the lp's to check before hand becouse I had a doubt,but, I didnt. I used to play his "born again" lp's in heavyrotation back in... | |
| Norah's new album,,FEB 9th. Can she do it again??? I am surprised that no one ever mentiones the other "NorahJones album". Last year an album was released that is called- The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones- NewYork City.The music was recorded in 2000, with some additional workdone in 200... | |
| Musical Fidelity Nu Vista CD vs. Cary 306/200 CD Back again,The subject of running straight into an amp with a volumecontrol on the player has come up many times. I even tried it myself, but I used a Placette remote volume control.My results were a system that was dissapointing. The results were... | |
| Musical Fidelity Nu Vista CD vs. Cary 306/200 CD Skuras,I own the 306/200, I previously owned the MF A3. I haven'thad the pleasure of owning a Nu-Vista but i did audition itbefore buying.The N.V, I thought was a bit more resolveing than the Carybut drier and colder. The Cary has more of a tube s... |