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| Question on tube rolling If you need an instant A/B comparison to hear the difference between two different tubes, go with the cheaper tubes.Better to give each tube a couple of days in your component due to warm up, breaking in, and general settling. Pick a couple of wel... | |
| Ayre, Meridian cd player purchase need help What are the rest of your components and what type of sound are you looking for? There are a lot of really great CDPs in a wide range of price points. Many of these have very different characteristics or classifications - warm, neutral, very detai... | |
| What to upgrade in an exsisting HT setup You are in the right direction by deciding to go with a preamp with HT passthrough (or unity gain, which is a similar end result). You are sitting good with the new amp and I am assuming you are looking to get more from 2-channel and hence this co... | |
| Can anyone recomend any great bono/conga albums Dweller, Funny you mention this album, shortly after my post to this thread I listened to this album last night (Rhythm Saints) and thought of this thread. | |
| Can anyone recomend any great bono/conga albums While not straight congas and bongos, check out the Buena Vista Social Club. This is produced by Rye Cooder and a couple of other big name talented people and recorded with local artists in Cuba. The first of the two discs released is both great m... | |
| Home Theater Surround Processor under $6,000? Krell HTS 7.1 latest version, new in sealed box from authorized dealer. Contact Larry at Paragon who can get them not for the list price of $8,000 for for $2,995 with the full 5 year warranty.This will blow the Rotel, Denons, B&Ks out of the w... | |
| Audio Research tube problem with Aragon 4004 MKII Most solid state amps can accept certain amounts of DC to be passed from the preamp to the power amp via existing filters. It is when too much DC is passed that overloads the filtration capabilities of the power amp that these problems occur.Tube ... | |
| Speaker cabinet materials. I have been considering building some isolation platforms and devices out of a material that my company uses in our products for vibration dampening. The product that we use is a special steel that is comprised of one layer of 12 gauge steel, a la... | |
| The rout is on for Blu-Ray I wouldn't throw out my HDDVD player just yet. Sony is a strong company and much like Microsoft in this instance. I think HD DVD is a better product in many regards in the long term, much better capacity vs. BluRay which is based on a different al... | |
| What are the effects of cable ties? While cable ties may be more convenient, I would be more apt to use zip ties. You can even buy zip tie mounting plates that are made of plastic that have a peel and stick silicon release liner (ie. sticker like) that will allow you locate and even... | |
| Would an upconvertind player be an improvement? I second the Oppo, best DVD players you can buy for under several thousand dollars.As for universal DVD players, DVD, HDDVD and BluRay I would personally be very hesitant to take this route without very careful personal review of the piece.HDDVD a... | |
| Used CD player for under $2000 I have heard good things about the Marantz as referenced above, but have not heard this unit myself (there are a lot I have not heard). I saw one of these sell on EBay about 2 weeks ago for pretty cheap. They have a good Rep. and the SACD 2-channe... | |
| Calypso Amplifier Matching - Krell? I spoke with Musical Surroundings, the sales organization for Aesthetix and they confirmed with me that the Calypso has coupling capacitors at the output which protect against DC from going to your solid state amps. If you have a Krell, this means... | |
| Using Different Brands for Pro/Pre and Amplifier Dovjm, I really don't see any benefit of keeping the pre/pro and amp in the same family. That being said, mine happens to be in the same family, Krell HTS 7.1 and Krell FPB amp (for 2 main channels) and a different Proceed 3-channel amp for center... | |
| audio reseach ref 3 or krell KTC...? Dave,Have you ever had a problem? I just read an ad recently where somebody sent their FPB in for servicing resulting from damage from a tubed preamp leaking DC.Since I have not yet converted my Krell to include the caps active, can you give me an... |