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| CJ Premier 14 vs. VTL TL5.5 & TL2.5 The Premier 14 doesn't have a phono stage built in ( you have to get teh Premier 15 phono stage), the Vishay resister volume is really loud on the Premier 14 and has a very limited volume range (ie it doesn't work with Lamms FYI). Make sure they s... | |
| Transparent Cable - Balanced versus Single Ended.. if your components are truely balanced (not just connectors with the ground to chassis design).. Go Balanced all the way...No Money: said it right... you can't mask bad recordings.. | |
| bands you truly miss The Judy's - a Texas Punk band.... I am actually going to have to buy a turntable (phono pre, etc...) and fleabay some albums.... | |
| Sophia 2 against a wall, with Meridian processor? It's my understanding that the Meridian processors only process the bass; and cut it only. Look at Tact Processors if you are really looking for room processing power or DQX I believe is the other brand.How about creating a false wall with fabric ... | |
| What is the process to demo speakers? S7horton: Yes, they will work as a standard monitor but they were designed for interior decorators where speaker were to be integrated into bookshelves and out of the way. Plus these are smaller than Cub II's and with the external crossover provid... | |
| What is the process to demo speakers? Those Wilson speakers are designed to work against the wall and on bookshelves.. The only reason the dealers have stands is to demo them. | |
| sand in speaekers I would contact the speaker manufacture before doing this, as this might reduce the volumn inside the speaker and affect the sound. Another Option is to put a #7.5 lead Shot in bags atop your speakers (Common for subs). Make sure to double seal th... | |
| Lamm Owners: M2.2 Problems I love single input tube problems.. easy to solve.. you don't have to have a bunch of expensive tubes sitting around.. no biasing...Congrats and thanks for the update! | |
| Review: Ayre Acoustics MX-R Amplifier Curriemt11: See there is another thread of the guy selling his Pass XA-160's because of WAF (too much heat) and he is going to JC-1's which he is installing in a Rack... probably the same guy..http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1177... | |
| Help? Why Classe CAM-350s going into protection mo Sounds like a tube is going in the preamp....Do what has been suggested turn everything off and disconnect the preamp from the amps and just turn the amps on and see if they go into standy or safety after heating up.Borrow a another solid state pr... | |
| iPod to a Benchmark Media DAC-1 D/A The only way to do it correctly is the bottom port connector and not the headphone jack..Get the Benchmark Dac with USB and bypass the IPOD all together or get a Squeezebox and output to the Benchmark digitally. | |
| Lamm Owners: M2.2 Problems Check the manual, also swap the input 6922 tubes from left to right monoblock to see if that fixes it. Otherwise time to check fuses. | |
| Does External Hard Drive Cache size matter? not really.. if you were doing video editing then these things would matter. The larger hard drives are coming with larger caches to help them with performance. 750gig drives with 16meg, 1.0TB drive has 32meg.Larger cache on Laptop hard drives hel... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2 or Focal Electra 1037 be? Yeah you need strong friends with Sophia's... Watt Puppies are much easier to setup since they split in two... But the Wilson crate design is really smart, so do the voicing (aka the manual) and roll the crates over where you want the speakers and... | |
| Marsh a400s amp and tube preamps Why not buy the Marsh tube pre also? They sell for a bargain on audiogon! |