deepee99
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| Should I still buy a CD player? Suggest one? Try, if you can, to lay your hands on a new or used Oppo BDP-103. It will roll your socks up and down. Discontinued, but still in plentiful supply in the $800 range. That way you can play your Cds and DVD and have a 4D picture experience as well.... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? Been there. Tried it. Bloody joke. | |
| Broken hearted...magnepan and vandersteen I had a pair of Maggie MG-IIs coupled up with a Vandersteen 2 sub-woof, got all of that stuff for <$1,000 It was a great match except it presented a pretty complicated load, i.e. 1.0-Ohm in some spots, so you need a Bedini or similar big hurky ... | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? Sachs hands down. You could pry my DS-2 from my cold dead fingers. Don’s a bit backed up right now, moving to a new house, so if he’s abrupt with you, give him a little slack.. | |
| Carver TFM 35 vs TFM 35x They use a different set of capacitors, that I know. | |
| Need to replace meter lights with leds Carver amp Or you could go here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/113442826103 | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects Blue Jeans Cable in Seattle - http://www.bluejeanscable.com/Nice guys, very solid physically, they'll custom cut to your length and it's usually out the door USPS the same day. | |
| Question about hum from speakers Your power supply cap(s) are shot. Easy to replace if you’ve any skill with a screwdriver and a soldering iron.Likely you had one bad cap, and nobody noticed. When the second one failed, that’s when the AC hum started. And in defense of the seller... | |
| Is there a difference in sound quality when streaming TIDAL Vs CD player The Oppo DAC is adequate, but to get the most out of your digital sources, you need a stand-alone DAC. Mine is an Aqua La Scala, not cheap but well worth it. | |
| Best PLace To Buy Chinese Tubes? Just bumped across this thread. Here's my two bits' worth: Buy your Chinese directly from a Chinese seller of good repute. Most are on Fleabay but I see a few on Amazon, too. Whether PSVane or SG, plan on a 1 in 15-20 either DOA or very short-live... | |
| SOS: Andy Bowman - Vintage Tube Services Andy's alive and well as of a week ago. Bought a nice foursome of GEC KT-88s from him.ONLY call Andy; he never checks his emails. | |
| The ups and downs of tube vs. SS... @wspohn I'm kinda the same way. I've got s/s in the man-cave and toobs in the big room. There is a huge variation in the sound of, say, a Bedini s/s amp or an s/s Mac. Ditto with tube amps. My speaks (Tylers) are 90 dB and I listen to damn near an... | |
| Looking for speaker suggestions Hate to sound like the proverbial broken record here, but DO investigate Tyler Accoustics in Kentucky. Blows the doors off Vandersteens for one-third the money. | |
| Do I have to brand match preamp and amp? Mixing and matching is not a problem UNLESS you're talking about tubes and solid-state. There's a huge impedance difference between a tube pre-amp's output and a sand amp's inputs. It *can* be corrected by re-capping the tube pre-amp but IMHO not ... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 If you can snag an Aqua La Scala with the Optologic upgrade you'll be in tall cotton. |