deepee99
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| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? @lowerdrive, There’s always the $3 Wal-Mart experiment. Buy a pair of white winter socks and hang them over the tweeters, see if that doesn’t smooth things out. Also. I think break-in is only an issue for tube gear. | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) Consider a Bedini. Not made anymore as both John and Gary have passed on, but if you put out some feelers you might snag one. They were all Class A. John was a genius when it came to audio. They run remarkably cool for Class A. If you see a 200/20... | |
| Cartridges: Complete Scam? Get a decent Grado or Ortofon and call it good. | |
| Best looking reel to reel The Technics RS-1500 series, especially one rehabbed by J-Corder in Gig Habour, WA. | |
| Worked Backwards and Would like to Hear Suggestions on Speakers Tyler Acoustics. Hand-built in Kentucky. Phenomenal sound. He only sells direct. I have Tyler's Highland H-1s and have referred several friends to him and they are as over the moon about the sound as I am. Very efficient so they run well with tube... | |
| Please help me chose a tube preamp I second the Don Sachs DS-2 recommendation. Love mine, and you have a vast selection of options (XLR ins, remote volume control, and caps) to choose from. Start price is around $2k. I have owned many other tube preamps for 10x the price but this ... | |
| Is it possible to buy a decent tube amplifier in the $2000-3000 range? Check out these bad boys, a pair of M-125 monoblocks, http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htmScroll down to the bottom for the M-125s. Or yes, as whitestix says, go with one of Don Sach's KT-88 amps. http://www.dsachsconsulting.com/custom%20kt88%20tube%... | |
| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? I would add that those 12AT7s in there are not just buffers; they're volt amps as well. | |
| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? Technics is as good is it gets. Pioneer never knew how to market them. Maybe they didn't know what they had. Second choice, get any box that will take an Oppo drive and hook it up to a decent DAC. I suggest the http://www.aquahifi.com/la_scala.htm... | |
| Which good CD transports can be found in the used market? The top-loading Rega is a good choice. Oppo makes a lot of industry-standard drives as well. HHB's upside-down tray drive was probably the best. Not sure they're made anymore but look on FleaBay. | |
| 2017 ‘Keeper’ speakers under - $25K Thread drift here, so please be patient. Somebody up above posted a link to some Dunlavy speaks in need of re-habbing. (Not interested in buying them) but it got me thinking about rehabilitating speakers in general. The foam surrounds used even by... | |
| 2017 ‘Keeper’ speakers under - $25K @cb5300, your simple phrase "completely happy" nails it. Thank-you -- simplicity above all things.May I add my own thoughts? (Too late to object; I've already begun.)Speakers are great big huge, heavy, room-dominating things. Good ones with the be... | |
| 2017 ‘Keeper’ speakers under - $25K Tyler Highlands. | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy I would join in the praise for Paul Laudati's Clear-Day silver cables; very reasonably priced, strong terminations, and Paul's a great guy and will build to order. For digital hook-ups and such things as long ethernet runs, Blue Jeans Cable is tou... | |
| Preamps with two main-outs My stereo pre-amp (Sachs DS-2) has two outs, with differing caps on each pair. I've no clue either as to where the coitus-interrupts electrons go if you just snaggle up to one pair, but Don Sachs' suggestion is: try both and if you're still befudd... |