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| Sonics As Good As Sera Uno Noche? Kenl, you are right, unless you want to switch to vinyl, this CD you mention is hard to beat. At the moment and within the limits you mention only Lyle Lovett's Road to Ensenada comes to my mind. | |
| Why vinyl? Very good points Ron, in fact I sometimes tend to suspect, that people complaining about those "clicks and pops" don't know how to handle vinyl properly or are even arguing merely from pure hearsay. | |
| Why vinyl? It is about two years ago, that I started experimenting with open reel tapes again, comparing Studer and Otari machines and finally settling for an Otari, where good ICs and PCs made the biggest difference. I built up a small collection of r2r tap... | |
| Vote for best US made solid state amp My vote goes to Spectral. | |
| The details of selling/shipping overseas Have the buyer prepay through wiretransfer from his bank to yours. See to it that he carries bankcharges, which are quite stiff and have him pay shipping through Bax Global, which will pick up the goods and deliver house to house. | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? True, JRD, besides, no one has reinvented the wheel and there are classics and classics sleepers around! Cheers, | |
| What kind of power wakes up electrostatic speakers You need high current for the reasons Audiokinesis so aptly stated above. However, high voltage is necessary as well and that is why tubes generally are a good match with stators, as Sean so rightly points out. The Innersound amps, though a little... | |
| Best Component Ever, for the money Jjjj, funny, was going to post here and found that you have practically said it all. Cheers, | |
| Record-playing Rituals? After an evening of listening, I'd like to come back to this thread. I still find, that some LPs profit immensely by my cleansing procedure described above both in sound stage and frequency expansion and some simply do not and sound washed out wit... | |
| My Jadis Int amp. distorts in the upper mid-range Pierre is absolutely right, heck, I should have thought of that. Saffy, how is it going? Please report back to us!Cheers, | |
| Clean Your Cables??? Sub is right on the money. It also helped to quieten down my stators, who used to snap, crackle and pop as in those Cornflake adverts of the sixties (well, Quad63s are amongst them, must be the reason)....and yes, the last nocturnal bloody nose I ... | |
| Records are better. I actually heard it Happy to see you join the gang, Matt! | |
| Great Vintage Amps-which one for you? ARC D-79 and ARC D-150 | |
| Step-up/down transformers degrade performance? I find, that the situation is not as simple as Aida suggests. Some transformers work, some do not. If you have a very transparent system, transormers can colour the overall voicing of a system and influence dynamics in a negative way.It also depen... | |
| Best Tube recommendation for Jadis Orchestra Reff. Now I would say that the contrary is true. The KT88, though more expensive and less reliable, have a sweeter midrange on this type of gear.The KT90 is more dynamic and a little "rough" in comparison. However here opinions vary and the proof lies i... |