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| Is it ok to leave the amp on? The advice varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, for example -w- Naim - leave it it on. If I felt it necessary to power down my SS amplifier in between use, and then wait for it to warm up each time, it would be out of here and replaced with a... | |
| Any integrated using 6550 tubes... Passion Audio I-12 uses 6550's and comes assembled or as a kit. They are "said" to be slightly upgraded Antique Sound Labs amps, though the upgrades may be mostly cosmetic. | |
| Any integrated using 6550 tubes... Hey Dragon: Another thing is that if you get your West Coast vacation, I am an hour away from Kevin Deal's Upscale Audio (upscaleaudio.com). He seems to be "the tube guy" with a good rep and always seems to have a lot of used and demo gear. You gu... | |
| Any integrated using 6550 tubes... Hi Dragon: Why the 6550? My personal preference has always been EL34's for "lush" and EL84's for "refined" sound. Of course the amp's design and the rest of the system has a lot to do with it. I think that an Audio Research amp that I recently lis... | |
| ABBEY ROAD TAPE HISS I have heard that if you play the hiss backwards it says: "Paul is not really dead, he was however involved in a rather serious motorcycle accident and required extensive plastic surgery, just like Bob Dylan". | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? To conduct an experiment with new -vs- broken in on the cheap... Pick up two sets of Radio Shack Gold IC's. They are are sold in sets of two for under $15.00 at my local RS (mine were different primary colors). Break in one set and then compare th... | |
| Cosmetic Repair Fpeel: The good news is that I found the polish. It is Seapower Plasic Polish, Stock No. SPP-1, (for all plastics), "gives that non-glare, static free shine". Seapower Marine Products, a division of T.R. Industries, 11022 Vulcan St., South Gate, C... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables Leafs: Carl's banter has never bothered me. Your campaigning for Carl's expulsion, however... Guess it's up to (just like everything else) personal taste. I do not want to see anyone banned from the forum, including you. If your place and position... | |
| Which Speaker in the 4-6K Range? Hi Jim: I should have said in the "same league as" in regard to sound reproduction, as the Quads sound different from the Magnapans. The Sonata's had a great deal of detail and a very wide and deep sound stage. They were less bright than Magnapans... | |
| DO AUDIOPHILES EVER LISTEN TO MUSIC? "I have tried to listen to music in the past, but found that it just got in the way of the equipment." Can't imagine that this is really true of anyone. Some people probably do only listen to a limited amount of music that is well recorded/enginee... | |
| Which Speaker in the 4-6K Range? I recently auditioned the Silverline Sonata's (just because they were there) but was not in the market for a speaker in their price range. I actually thought (at the time) that they retailed for $3500.00, so I was not influenced by their real worl... | |
| Cosmetic Repair Fpeel: No I havn't, never crossed my mind until you mentioned it. My wife thinks that the polish may be under the kitchen sink (contained in the three story space saving jigsaw puzzle of products that utilizes every square inch of space). As we ju... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables Cwlonden: Ever thought of using prop cables (like in the movies)? Just use your regular "best" sounding cables, but surround them with something like for ex: the conduit used for heating and air conditioning systems, latex tubing, vacuum cleaner h... | |
| Amp without phono stage=better amp.? James: In a single manufacturers line adding a phono stage is an upcharge (you are paying for it). To compare one manufacturer to another is like comparing apples to oranges (for example an $800.00 integrated amp (let's say -w- phono) may be consi... | |
| Class A amp-best way to burn-in? Hi Ben: I leave my Musical Fidelity amp on all the time. It runs in class A up to X amount of watts and then switches to A/B (it idles in class A). It takes a number of days to sound its best after it has been powered down and then started again. ... |