davemitchell
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| Anybody Felt Lower-End ARC preamps Bass-Shy? Ryder, with so many variables in the system, amp, preamp, cd player, cables, subwoofer, settings, placement, recordings, it is tough to have any idea if you have a lack of bass and if so, where it might be coming from. One thing I have discovered ... | |
| Which Cable Makes the Biggest Impact? It's easy to get hyper focused on cables in general and start to think that they are more important than your components, but it isn't true. It's also easy to get caught up in an obsession with the importance of power cords. This happens for two r... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? I don't think there's a way in hell to answer this, but here's a my list of nominees:Jazz:Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Miles Davis John Coltrane Rock:Elvis Jimi Hendrix Bob Dylan Chuck Berry Jerry Lee LewisLittle RichardBlues:T-Bo... | |
| Ideal Volume level Sugarbrie is correct. Your preamplifier's natural state would be to have the volume control all the way up. Any setting lower than that is attenuating the output from where it wants to be.The position of the volume control is also meaningless. Whe... | |
| Jazz guys: Bebop, Hard Bop etc. When I think of Hard Bop I think of Coltrane Blue Trane and lots of the Blue Note records from that period in the mid to late 50s, mainly East Cost players.Bebop, Diz and Bird in the 40s.Post Bop, 60s Wayne Shorter, Herbbie Hancock, 60s Coltrane. ... | |
| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear the results do not support your conclusions. Without getting in to critiquing the "results", my point was that using output transformers is hardly innovative. It's about as retro as you can possibly get. | |
| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear You don't consider transformer coupling the transistors to keep them in their peak operating range innovative?Not to pick on Mac, but no. Using output transformers, which have been around on tube amps forever, on transistors which do not need them... | |
| Amp suggestionsfor Wilson Watt Puppies/Sophia Wilson uses Audio Research amps at their factory and Audio Research uses Wilson speakers as well. Try a REF110.I'm an ARC dealer. | |
| How does a ARC SDA1 sound, like a 100.2? The SDA1 circuit was basically the same as the D130, just a 4 channel version. The 100.2 was a newer design with fewer gain stages (just 2) and better transparency. Generally, all ARC amps share a certain house sound. ARC solid state amps will mor... | |
| The great myth of the XlR I know what the original poster is referring to although I would describe it a bit differently. Single ended (unbalanced) systems sound softer, rounder, lower-res, and therefore friendlier. That can translate to being "more musical" in some cases ... | |
| Vandersteen Quatro Mrjstark,You are correct, and Richard has said himself, that his original experimental attempt at creating a Quatro Wood did not sound as good as the standard Quatro due to all of the diffraction from the surfaces surrounding the drivers. He expec... | |
| Vandersteen Quatro Mrjstark,Putting aside which I would personally get, you raise the age old question of where the law of diminishing returns kicks in for each individual. That question really applies to everything in the audio world and beyond. Is the Quatro Wood ... | |
| Vandersteen Quatro Richard Vandersteen's response from last year describes most of the improvements to the Quatro Wood over the standard Quatro. Here are all of the improvments: - Improved tweeter based on the 5A tweeter/plate (the standard Quatro tweeter is based o... | |
| Amps for Vandersteen Quatro The Quatros, and their required M5HP filters, will get along well with lots of amplifiers provided they don't have too low an input impedance. I would avoid amps that have an input impedance of less than 20K per leg.I would also seek out amps that... | |
| Current Production Classic Sounding Tube Amps I used to sell Rogue amps (M120 and 88) and they sounded very much like classic tube amps as did the Rogue preamps. They are certainly on the bloomy and warm side of neutral. ARC, on the other hand, makes perhaps the least vintage or colored sound... |