dgarretson
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| BAT VK75 Tube placement? I forgot that non -SE version uses two 6SN7 in lieu of 6H30 in input stage(first row.) That is where you should hear the greatest difference with your NOS tubes. | |
| BAT VK75 Tube placement? Victor wrote me that all six 6SN7s perform the same function and close matching is unnecessary. These tubes take 600V at start-up, which may be a problem for some types. I'm not much into NOS tubes; IME Tung Sol reissues surpass EH. The unit can b... | |
| Alejandro Escovedo Live at Mc Cabe's Real Animal is a very good album. Its only weakness is congested & compressed production, even on vinyl. Amazing how stripped down unplugged sets like the one you saw at McCabe's can bring out the best in very electric bands(e.g. Nirvana, Alic... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Did UPS extenze his signature pad or twas Bruno with his silver codpiece and knit legerhosen? No ohmygosh it's JRDG rounding the corner. | |
| VPI Scoutmaster Super Platter Or perhaps a TT Weights copper mat on top of the existing platter, with or without his carbon fiber layer, clamp, and periphery ring system. That adds 4 lbs. of rotating mass, in addition to other beneficial effects. The copper mat improved my TNT. | |
| Best cable for Jumpers I don't know what type of binding posts B&W uses, but if the nuts come off, excellent jumpers can be made from electronics-grade copper foil with holes punched or drilled through to the diameter of the posts. Solderless, minimal metal mass, ne... | |
| Merlin owners who have modified x-over? Claritycap MR and Duelund resistors were broken in and evaluated separately in each section of the crossover. The MRs sound great across FR and are claimed by design to have internal resonance control characteristics similar to Duelund. Duelund gr... | |
| Merlin owners who have modified x-over? David P., Actually I use only Claritycap MR and Duelund resistors in xover. Elsewhere in system I have used Mundorf Silver/Gold, V-Cap, and NOS Russian teflon caps-- all excellent and significant improvements compared to stock caps found in even v... | |
| Merlin owners who have modified x-over? David P, As Alice said, it gets curiouser and curiouser. Now a post by someone who lambasts a manufacturer and a dealer, has no Agon-listed system, and provides a pointer to a 20% off sale at PCx... BTW, see my system for Merlin modified with Clar... | |
| The Better My System Gets.... Some of my best and worst recent experiences have been at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. This ia a tiny deco-style standing-room-only club dating to turn of the century, with prior lives as a strip joint and a Chinese theater. It now hosts small a... | |
| Merlin owners who have modified x-over? I find Bobby P's sharing of an on-going R&D project refreshing. There are very few manufacturers who bother to participate in these forums at all. I doubt those who decline to do so are reticent owing to ethical concerns about mixing advertisi... | |
| The Better My System Gets.... Over the past few years I've been noticing the disynchrony of increasing amounts of text messaging and buzzy bar talk at club venues. It got to the point at one gig where Lou Reed improvised a comment into his lyrics something like "why not just k... | |
| Reference 3A Grand Veena's I'll qualify my comments by adding that treble and midrange are superlative. There is some discontinuousness between the midrange and bass drivers(which I believe has also been noted by pro reviewers), and LF lacks the impact and grip that I'm acc... | |
| Reference 3A Grand Veena's I heard them at a local audiophile meet in which the manufacturer had control over every component in the chain except for CDP and room-- which was too large for these speakers. Notwithstanding the mid-range CDP that was used for this demo, the Gr... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil The moniker quicksilvergurl is as yet unclaimed. |