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| If You Like Bill Evans, You'll like .... Don't miss the recently issued Bill Evans: The Complete Village Recordings - a 3 CD set of everything that was put down that weekend. You are there right between the stage and the seats. Great liner notes too.If you like sax, you gotta hear Ben We... | |
| Newbie wants tube recommendations One more thing - I would be remiss not recommending that you at least consider some of the new product being built in China. Some of it is quite incredible. here is a link running currently on AGon about one such brand - BTW I happen to have some ... | |
| Newbie wants tube recommendations There is a lot of nice Cary and AES (a second Cary brand) here on Audiogon. Its top rate stuff and there is a ready market for it which makes it easy to get in and out of.Many of the units are switchable between ultralinear and triode. They use wi... | |
| speakers for wall bookcase The VR1s are great - I have them and love them. But mine at least do have a hole in the back - which I have always assumed is a port. Though it does not show up in their literature. Worth reviewing the placement directions here:http://www.vonschwe... | |
| speakers for wall bookcase Hi - Had a similar requirement with a real focus on minimum size for a boat - ended up with NSM speakers - check for the sales and specials:http://www.nsmaudio.com/brochures/10sbroc.htmlReally tremendous for the size and the upaginst the wall in t... | |
| Power Strip Sound Differences. Hi Kevine -A lot of the better power products (BPT, Equi=Tech IMHO) provide isolation between each duplex. Depends on the mfg - some designate specific duplexes for digital, high current etc - but at least with the isolated duplex engineering appr... | |
| Power Strip Sound Differences. take a look at the Balanced Power Technologies site. http://www.b-p-t.com/I just took delivery on one of his plain vanilla PPC - pure power stripI also have a CPC. These two are his bottom of the line but they both work very well I would go so far... | |
| Cary sla70 Mod to triode Can't say - I never heard them before the mods. I do think that the tubes and some of the tweaks changed the sound as much as anything. I don't feel that the overall sound is particularly soft though it is obviously tubey. I too have noticed that ... | |
| Best 6550 regardless of price Pretty much the 6550 gold standard is the Tungsol 6550 - the original was developed and made in the USA. It was introduced in 1955 and was specifically designed to provide inexpensive high power for home audio. There were three variants on the des... | |
| Cary sla70 Mod to triode I had it done by Cary - bought a SLA70 second hand on AGon, sent it to Dennis sight unseen and had them go nuts. Mods include WBT binding posts, Jensen Oil Caps, Kimber input wire, copper B+ wire set, Bias jack, 100K bias pot, triode/ultralinear s... | |
| Recommendation on hard driver based CD player the thing with these units for the moment is that many of them are trying to play the closed system game - can't expand the storage the comes with the system being the main example I've seen. For those of you who don't spend a lot of time thinking... | |
| What do I need to use my PC as a music server There are two kinds of software used for this. All you really need to do is "Synch" your primary and your backup folder based on date. What this means is that the application will compare the directories of the two hard drives and then copy only t... | |
| Recommendation on hard driver based CD player I made a leaping assumption that anyone who would spring $6,700 for Levinson gear - and make a point of telling us about it - was going to be buying an engineering driven solution - after all their cases aren't what those units are known for...The... | |
| Recommendation on hard driver based CD player called a computer - you will probably enjoy a Macintosh since you appreciate engineering | |
| Are there different size toslink connectors? There is the standard, the mini mentioned that is also used by Apple on the Airport Express and the old one favoried by Wadia and others generally referred to as an AT&T connector. None of these are interchangeable |