davemitchell
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| Buy tubes from Audio Research or not The VT100mkI and mkII are much more tricky to retube due to the driver balancing issues. The mkIII is much easier and shouldn't be lumped in with the earlier versions. | |
| Audio Research DSI 450 vrs. HD 220 against all tu I have not had much experience with the CAM200's but have listened quite a bit to the CAM350 mono amps, so if they are similar....The ARC sound is brighter (in a good way) like the performers on the stage are illuminated by brighter stage lights. ... | |
| Audio Research DSI 450 vrs. HD 220 against all tu Not sure what bad recording might have been playing while Jwm was in the ARC room, but on multiple visits listening to various recordings including my own live recordings that I had with me, the system sounded fantastic. It was antithesis of what ... | |
| How do you connect your single wire and jumpers ? In my experience the "cross connect" method averages the loss of single wiring with jumpers evenly across the entire speaker. First put the jumpers in to tie the positives to each other and negatives to each other. Then connect your positive speak... | |
| ARC VS115 The tube compliment is the same as a VT100mkIII with eight 6550C power tubes and four 6H30's, so the heat is exactly the same.The power is spec'd at 120 watts per channel which is a tad higher than the VT100 series amps, but the supply has a littl... | |
| Where to learn about bypass capacitors? It depends upon what you mean by "bypass" capacitors. I'm going to assume that you are referring to the practice of using smaller value caps in parallel with larger ones rather than the "decoupling" definition. The smaller value bypass capacitors ... | |
| VANDERSTEEN 3 A SPEAKERS Biamping is not a good idea with Vandersteen speakers, especially with solid state amplifiers which can become unstable due to the capacitive load of the mid/tweeter crossover. What is recommended and is superior to biamping is adding two 2Wq powe... | |
| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc There are a variety of things that make this Crown K2 amplifier less likely to be as good sonically as audiophile amplifiers. They are:1. This is a switching amp but they don't give the details on power supply or output stage technology. The probl... | |
| The Definition of An Audiophile If an amp sounds more musical than another I can only conclude that this particular amp is adding something to the original signal above and beyond the original recording.You are missing the point of the term "musical". It refers exactly to the op... | |
| Amp for Sonus Faber speakers The Domus Grand Piano does not at all require big solid state power. I can't speak to the older version though. We get excellent results with ARC 50-100 watt tube amplifiers. They even work well off the 8 ohm taps, meaning that they are pretty ben... | |
| Audio Research REF2 MK 1 Vs. MK 2 05-01-08: HjpThe Mk I has an all vacuum tube audio circuit. The Mk II has an all solid state audio circuit (not just the input stage....all) This is not correct. The input stage uses J-FETs followed by 6H30 tube for the 2nd gain stage and another ... | |
| Bi-amping question I agree with Bob (and if he and I agree you know it's right...or the world is about to end). Consider subwoofers. You don't necessarily need to high-pass your main speakers either. Adding subs will add lots of power and low frequency capability wh... | |
| Audio Research Source - CD3 mkII, CD5 The CD3mkII is discontinued. The CD5 is just coming out now. Yes it will have the same top loading transport as the CD3mkII and CD7.The new CD5 is more of a clone of the REF CD7 but uses FETs in place of vacuum tubes. Remember, the CD3 was designe... | |
| Best amp for Vandersteen Quattro? The only caution about the McCormack amps is that the input impedance on some models is too low to be compatible with the required M5HP (high pass filters) used on the Quatros.They are nice sounding amps though. | |
| Who has the best plasma monitor these days Talk2me,Fujitsu (makers of the Aviamo line) have gotten out of the plasma business. They were excellent. That leaves Pioneer at the top alone. |