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| SEEKING A QUALITY CDR I have tried the following at various points in time:HHB Gold and SilverMSFL GoldApogee GoldMitsui Gold and SilverQuantegy GoldMemorex BlackI can say that Mitsui Gold has been the best of the lot on a consistent basis. There are some HHB recording... | |
| What should I do with unwanted vinyl? I'd be interestd in taking them off your hands. Email me if you like and give me an idea of what you have available. | |
| Newbie Tubie just wants insight and direction.... My preamp inverts polarity and as such I swap the speaker connections on the amp side. However, polarity can be inverted on front end source equipment (like DACs), amps, and from speaker cross overs as well (actually experienced the last one unexp... | |
| Mullard CV4004 I purchased some CV4004s and found the same results as Zinfan2. However, just recently purchased a matched quad of Mullard ECC83 tubes from 1959 and these sound fantastic. Sometimes it all depends on who you buy them from. The vendor in CA I bough... | |
| any feedback on the grace 901/902 dac ? The grace is a headphone amp with a built in DAC. It is primarily used in pro applications from what I gather. One nice feature is the USB input. Not sure what the quality is like however, I'm still looking in to that. | |
| TRL Audio Mirror D1 Signature Let me know what you think of it. Also, if you like it and after a while of use want to get more mileage out of it, give TRL a call. They'll take it to well beyond the next level. | |
| TRL Audio Mirror D1 Signature Joeylawn36111,The modified unit requires the extended burn-in. The D2 should be good to go after 200 or so hours. | |
| Hard Drive based system Ecruz,You're just about there. It will get somewhat better over the next few hundred hours, but in smaller steps. Most of the wide scale changes have occurred.I have to send my Alesis in for updates that Paul made to his. Then I'll be sending in m... | |
| Transistor Research Labs ST-225 Integrated amp Jack,Same here with the D-225. I can't seem to pull myself away. Interesting point though on the First Sound (Paul sure gets around, heard he's designed for George Cardas, as well as FIM and others). My Joule Electra is not marked as well, nor doe... | |
| SOTA Star, Grado Refrence arm and XTZ MKV Cart Chadlinz,What a great gift. You're going to have a lot of fun with this set-up. Hopefully you have some set-up tools to give you some guidance on VTF and cartridge alignment. As Rushton mentions for fine tuning VTF and VTA just rely on your ears. ... | |
| quandary: inefficient speakers, low-power amp I was using a 50 watt triode Cary V12i amp with a pair of Spendor 1/2e speakers that are 88db efficient. However, I was using an active preamp with 12db of gain. I did not have the volume control issues you had and 50 watts seemed to make the amp ... | |
| Trying to get back into Lps, I seem to be throwing If you can spring for about $250 - $300 the K&K Audio MC step up is a great deal. It uses Lundahl transformers, can be configured for a boost of 14, 20 or 26db of gain (factory preset, but if you're good at soldering you can change it yourself... | |
| cary slp-98L vs bat vk3i I haven't compared the two but owned the Cary for a while. With stock tubes it's okay, but when I put in NOS Sylvanias the preamp really started to sing. The Cary house sound is very biased towards the mid-range, but this preamp delivered good bas... | |
| Modwright SWL 9.0SE Pre ... your thoughts welcome Timo,Not from the midwest but have traveled through there quite a bit. Been to East Troy, Milwaukee and Eau Claire in WI. Always had a brat when I passed through, summertime or not. Great stuff, but my allegience to cheese is strictly CA where I l... | |
| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? Lkdog,I understand your concern about being badgered offline. I was amazed recently that on the same day I posted a review of a product that I just had modified by a reputable mod shop (over 600 modified units in the last year), I received an emai... |