chazzbo
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| condo owners, how do you appease the neighbors? Also see what noise laws are and cut it off at 10PM.Tell him you here loud TV's and if you had known there was paper thin walls you wouldn't have bought but you did.Ask him his schedule because if he's not around and you are you can play and be ad... | |
| Floorstanding Speaker Stands - which one? I think very few speakers won't fare fromatand or platform to augment basic sound or decouple speakers from floor.Call Bob Warzalla at Sound Anchor.I think alHe Call knows stands like nobody else ( and know as much about Hifi as any audio engineer... | |
| adcom gfp 750 vs. MF a3cr.......preamps Go MF.I sold Adcom and whilkethat Nelson Pass stuf performed well sonically it ncould break at the drop of a hat.The eletronic switching would be item to go.Just fro picking it up the weight made it seem robust and as well designed it was Adcom's ... | |
| new to phono.. Can I hook one up to my preamp? Used to sell the 250P and don't think a card is availible.Let us know your budget and will tell,yopu what's out there.Lehman for $600 is a good schoice,$450 will get nice Jolida and you can have fun tube rolling (replacing stock tubes with NOS -Ne... | |
| Vandersteen 3a sigs- Tube or SS I don't know about Mac gear being nothing special.Now once again you have option to get a tube amp or integrated.They sound great but you must think of the basic trade offs.Tubes will give better mids (and since they use KT88 as far as tube type g... | |
| Rega P25 vs VPI Scout REga if you want a fsty sound and they try to keep everything "tight" i.e. stiff to lessen viobration.Maybe a harder sound.But I'd but Scout because you have so manyu upgrade option.Can snd it in to made into a Scoutmaster,and something that would... | |
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| A New Twist on the Usual DAC Question Think at that price (and even higher) you may have problems finding SACD.Thiunk that may folks will reccomend at this price Perpetual DAC and it's PS.Think you can get them upgrated from a number of sources but underwood wally say's hjis have been... | |
| Is Apogee in a class by itself among planars? Not really a panar and weak at frequency extremes smal chamber classical,folk,voocal and jazz fols can't do better than Quads.But have to second the nod on Maggie 20.1 as being "more of eveything with a hell of a tonal reporoduction.Even 3.6's wit... | |
| If $ was no object what speaker would you buy? Acapellla Sapoahrons (on sale used for $77,000) look like the may have all, the Advantegardes have plus a super sophisitcated ion plama tweeter (that won't make you sick like old Heilco( frp,m 70's was that the name?).But there is one guy who has ... | |
| Is KEF no longer relevant? IKef still makes decent speake but to my mind isn't competitive at higher price ranges as now there are so many very good speakers that adjusted for iflation are like old Kef 104.But don't count thme out.Anothr company that was respected and fell ... | |
| 60 cycle hum Aceto has good idea and make sure that cables areb b not too close to each other or power supplies.Think PS Audioo make a device called humbuster but not sure how it would work with yout dry up.Chazz | |
| Cartridge selection & output “mV” MM vs. MC Help Think there is Japan only model that can be special ordered ofr the 103 (maybe "R" Model?).I am amazed what a cult follwing.I really srespect Marakents and his extensive knowlege but read Grado site.Founder Joe invented MC but never used it himsel... | |
| What are differences between Dual 301/401? Kal you are right.Thought about after I "pulled a boner".Maybe they can't match upo with modern designs ven "budget ones Like lower price Reagsa and MMF's but there seesm to a a lot of fols restoring them and my sssumption it was more thna nostalg... | |
| your opinion on subwoofers in two channel Sugabrie is right but prices are pretty high,Wouldn't go with a B&W sub or Velodyne etc for music.REL,Martin Logan etc get excellent speed and pitch accuracy by using multiple small drivers.I think that the Vandersteen 2weQ is oine of the best... |