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| Balanced or single ended leads from your arm. George, I spoke with BAT today and Vladimir confirmed that because the original P10 is not balanced in the first gain stage, its does sound better and offers higher SNR using RCA inputs instead of XLR. As you mentioned, the P10SE has a fully-balan... | |
| Balanced or single ended leads from your arm. Jfrech, here is a post that Victor Komenko of BAT made awhile back that sums up his view on the matter. The 6db advantage in SNR actually goes to the SE connection between the TT & the phono stage.http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=viny... | |
| hifi audio in movies Martin Logan (Aerius?) speakers in the party scene at Peter Fonda's cliffside house in The Limey. | |
| Balanced or single ended leads from your arm. This can be a bit tricky, as a phono cartridge is not a true-balanced source(this would require +/- phases referenced separately to ground, or a total of five pins instead of the four found in a cartridge). My BAT P10 phono stage has both RCA &... | |
| Larry Carlton Agreed, Willis. In breezy mode Carlton is one of the very few irresistable smooth jazz guys. Over the year I've worn out the vinyl listening to "Sleepwalk." | |
| hifi audio in movies I believe Malcolm McDowell enjoys Ludwig Von on a Michell Gyrodeck in Clockwork Orange between predations with Dim & Dum. | |
| Need help with sub selection Bob, it is not apples-to-apples to compare the low distortion products of op amps-- which nevertheless at higher frequencies add audible grain & hardness & loss of refinement in the treble and midrange-- to the much higher percentage disto... | |
| Need help with sub selection Bob, I think that disturbing the signal to the mains with a high pass filter or external crossovers usually introduces undesireable grain in the mains-- short of rather high $ implementations. There is no problem with bass augmentation mode with L... | |
| Anyone know of a good pressing of Stickey Fingers? I'll go a little further revisiting these albums & suggest that the original vinyl US pressing of Exile has warmth & detail pretty close to the standard of the early London records. Problem with recollection of murk on this album likely ow... | |
| Anyone know of a good pressing of Stickey Fingers? I had a chance to spin up my original US pressing of Exile on Main Street COC 2-2900, ST-RS-722507/8/9/10 PR. Exile sounds really good sonically & a cut above the US first pressing of Sticky Fingers. I'd like to get my hands on a UK pressing f... | |
| Anyone know of a good pressing of Stickey Fingers? Davetherave, I just finished comparing the mofi to my original US pressing, and was also about to post that the thin-sounding sax on the mofi sounds like a kazoo, when I read your post! The original US pressing is more full-bodied and organic. Mor... | |
| Anyone know of a good pressing of Stickey Fingers? I have the original release COC 59100, ST-RS-712190 PR, bought during the first months of US release. Still in perfect condition except for Peter Pan is missing his zipper.... | |
| Battle of the BAT's, VK-60 vs. VK-220 A few years back I was visiting Soundex, a huge (now defunct) hi-end shop in Willow Grove, PA, thinking about trading up from my ARC VT130 to something better, and curious to hear the VK60 & VK75SE. The system in the big listening room was all... | |
| A great article on Class D/switching amps After reading this article and finding most of the reviewers critical of the treble/midrange performance of these amps, I take solace in the 1250 watt Class D plate amp in my Velodyne DD sub. | |
| Velodyne DD-15 setup question If the soundcard has full-range analog XLR L/R outputs, you can convert them to RCA with a plug converter or a custom cable and connect to the RCA L/R line-level inputs of the DD sub. Then set the sub's LPF & digital EQ to blend with the Tanno... |