daveyf
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| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? @prof I applaud you for contacting your ex-friend and asking him if he wants the records back. If he replies that he does, and he wants you to deliver them, and he has no intention of paying you for your loan...leads back to my advice to seek lega... | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? Perhaps there are two separate issues here..;) One is the money you lent to your 'friend' and which perhaps he now still owes you ( assuming you had some kind of deed or note)- and two- is the sale of his possessions. I do not think they are conne... | |
| Tube preamp with the best built in phono - $4k budget If you can source one, a used CAT SL1 Ultimate Mk 2 or 3 with phono. Alternatively a 5000 series CAT SL1 Signature with phono. | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? Ok, now back to the regular scheduled programming...... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? @mozartfan JA30 are over priced?? I don't think this is a true statement. The new JA30 Mk2, NOT to be confused with the older model JA30, is priced at a point that it would be hard for you to name other competing new products at a similar or lowe... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? @mozartfan LOL, glad you like that older vid of my system, prior to the upgrades and new preamp etc., If you liked the sound then, it is a lot more resolving and impressive now. The GH's are the speakers, they use an Audio tech mid/woofer and a ve... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? @mozartfan Funny you are talking about weight of amps. Yesterday, I was at a dealers and they suggested that I bring in my big Rowland to demo with their YG's. While this made some sense, as the YG's are notoriously difficult to drive, the idea o... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? @alexatpos I use two different amps with my GH’s. Not at the same time. The Jadis mono blocks are my go to tube amps, but I also have a modded Jeff Rowland model 8 t ss amp. This amp is a real brute, puts out 250 watts/ch into 8 ohms..and double... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? @alexatpos I might agree that the original Jadis JA30’s may not have had enough power at 30 watts/ch to show the GH’s at their best; but the new model Jadis JA30 Mk2 has an output of 48 watts/ch ( due to its larger and more robust power transforme... | |
| Matching solid state amps with tube based pre amps I run a tube amp and a ss amp with my tube preamp ( not simultaneously). With the ss amp, the stage is slightly smaller ( due probably to the fact that the ss amp is a stereo amp and the tubes are mono blocks), but the SQ is excellent either way. ... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear The question in my mind is where on the scale of importance is exact speed control vs. other issues that a turntable has to address. For example, does the ability to deal with spurious sonic energy matter more, or less? Certainly all parameters ma... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Agree. The fact that there are still folks willing to try and push the SOTA in high end vinyl is definitely something to be applauded. With the stand that goes along with the OMA, most designers will have an easier job integrating the package into... | |
| Linn Sondek LP-12 tonearm recommendations? Linn does indeed recommend an inside out approach when it comes to upgrading the table. Therefore, the arm is fairly low on the totem pole. However, I personally found that replacing my Linn Basik Plus with the WTA ’Black’ arm was one of the easie... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear @mikelavigne You fall into the category of discriminating buyer who dismisses this table based on the ability of the competition. I question as to how many of these manufacturer’s really know who or what the competition is?...and more importantly ... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear @lewm You make a very good point about the OMA being dismissed because it costs $360K! If the table was priced at say $20K or less, i would also question how many folks would still dismiss it? OTOH, the price asked is more than likely going to be ... |