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| What's The Big Deal About Battery Powered Preamps? If the preamp is otherwise well designed, a battery power supply lends a very low noise floor. The importance of low noise at the preamp stage cannot be overstated - as noise and distortion are additive, and the amplifier magnifies the input signa... | |
| Amp recommendations for Aerial 5B's? I helped a friend with a pair of 5's some years back - they really came alive with a Bryston 4B-ST. | |
| For Krell owners, keeping the amp on all the time? The problem with "Standby" in most amps is that it turns off the output stage, i.e., the output transistors are turned off, thereby going cold and contracting in size, and are turned on when taken out of Standby, thereby heating up and expanding i... | |
| Convergent Audio CAT JL3 tube biasing/manual I have a good friend who had the JL-1 monos. Like many Audio Research amps, it's not possible to bias individual push-pull pairs - you can only bias an entire bank of tubes, which requires owners to purchase very carefully matched octets. I'm not ... | |
| My Last CD player, need ideas There aren't many truly differential balanced CD players, but Audio Research makes them. The CD-3 or CD-3SE come to mind, both of which are in your price range if purchased used, but aside from digital outputs, they lack the other features you see... | |
| For Krell owners, keeping the amp on all the time? There are a million Audiogon threads that discuss the issue of whether to leave gear on 24/7 or to turn it on and off, and you should research them. Generally speaking, turning equipment on and off is in fact bad because it exposes it to thermal c... | |
| Meadowlark Nighthawk, Heron, Heron i, Blue Heron 2 BigKidz:E-mail Audiogon member Albertporter about audio clubs in Texas. | |
| Comments on Bryston or Krell for Dyn Temptations Symphonic music is the most demanding type of music for an amplifier, requiring the most power, but the Ayre and darTZeel amplifiers I discussed are both sufficiently powerful for the Temptations provided that your listening room is not really big... | |
| Comments on Bryston or Krell for Dyn Temptations My opinion is that a high powered amp on an efficient (91 db.) speaker like the Temptations is a bad idea unless you like to play your music super-loud. The Temptation is a superb speaker that deserves the very best amplifier you can afford. "Best... | |
| Sophia KT88 vs. Psvane KT88 KT 88's are relatively difficult to manufacture - that's why modern production KT-88's are reputed to be problematic and why there are a lot of bad ones on the market. The Sophia tubes are manufactured by Full Music in China, yes, but Richard does... | |
| Where stands the music of Chet Baker with you? Fabulous, as long as he isn't singing. | |
| six year old 6sn7's, pushing my luck? 6SN7's are extremely resilient tubes that were built for applications like televisions - it is very common to get 100,000 hours or more out of them - I wouldn't worry about them if I were you.The nearly universal belief nowadays is that tubes must... | |
| Amy Winehouse LP Lioness:Hidden Treasures I've only played it a couple of times - I need more exposure in order to pass judgment. I thought most of the songs on Back to Black were first-rate (and much more accomplished than Frank), so the standard is high. | |
| Amy Winehouse LP Lioness:Hidden Treasures Most of the recordings are of average quality (it varies by song). My pressing is of better than average quality as new LP's go, and the LP's (its a double album) are 180 g.I am not aware of any "audiophile" pressing. | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl Vinyl noise tends to be music genre-specific and/or equipment-related.In this regard, recordings of solo performances such as solo piano tend to be problematic, as opposed to boisterous rock / pop recordings, which almost always out-shout noise.As... |