clio09
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| Avatar SE Tubes I bought an Avatar SE that came with NOS tubes. National Electric (Siemens) EL-34s and Mullard CV4003 (12AU7) and CV4004 (12AX7). You might want to try the National Electric/Siemens EL-34s. Will probably cost about $250 for the set. The Mullard CV... | |
| Passive Preamps? Anyone? After reading 63 pages on the DIY Audio forum and speaking to George I decided to pull the trigger on the Lightspeed. Also, I figure if Nelson Pass got into the mix on LDRs it is worth checking out.Dave, did you ever get them implemented in the ac... | |
| PC & IC: Stealth vs KS Emotion vs Elrod I thought enough about the Tel Wire PCs to replace Stealth Dream and M5000 PCs in my system. Your question on the Tel Wire being as good, well honestly no, it is not as good as the Stealth Dream, which was a bit quieter in my system and a bit more... | |
| who does mods for the Sony SCD XA9000-ES? Reference Audio Mods, Kyle Takenaga. | |
| Merrill tables I don't see a rebate in their future. | |
| Passive Preamps? Anyone? I believe Nelson Pass already posted the schematic on the Pass DIY site as well. I saw a couple built by Audiogon member Rawsonte fly out of here of late. As Pubul57 says the rsistor based design is much simpler. I'm tempted to break out my EVS nu... | |
| Reality cables or Grover Huffman Grover sells his cables with spade terminations as well. I did not compare so can't offer an opinion on which sounds better. The advice to go bare wire with these is a good one. If I could that is what I would do. | |
| Passive Preamps? Anyone? Are you still using the Paradigm Reference Active 40 speakers? If so and I read the amp specs correctly the line in input impedance is 15k ohms. That is something to take into consideration when selecting a passive preamp. That being said the othe... | |
| Reality cables or Grover Huffman I felt the Grover Huffman cables were a bit livelier with a lower noise floor. They were more flexible as well, but that was not a factor in my choice.BTW - I chose the banana terminations. | |
| Reality cables or Grover Huffman I have heard both in my system and very recently. Tough call, they are both great values. I opted for the Grover Huffman cables. | |
| PAD vs VD Master series ayre ? I had both VD (Nite and Master series) and PAD (Venustas and AA) cables in my system. The PAD interconnects were easier to deal with than the VD. However, I am not sure how they'll sound with Ayre equipment. | |
| Apple macbook, solidstate H/drive option or not. You might be interested in reading this:http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/3/39967.htmlGordon Rankin recommends the SSD and has posted instructions on AA as to how to install one in a Mac Book. | |
| Looking for some cheaper Speaker Cables-$600 or so I have used the Alpha Core MI-2 and now use the Grover Huffman cables. Both are excellent values. | |
| Ground Loop Issue 427 When I lived a few blocks away from a radio station I had all sorts of RFI issues resulting in hum. Phono stages (even solid state) were especially problematic. One of my preamps gave me all sorts of fits.Hopefully your problem is not related to t... | |
| B&K powering Spendor? If I'm correct the power rating on the amp is 225 watts into 8 ohms. The Spendors have a pretty flat impedance curve. I ran a TRL D-225 with my Spendor 1/2e speakers and found they liked the extra power. I have read where others used a lot less po... |