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| RIP Lee Weiland What a shame. I dealt with Locus Design frequently over the years and always appreciated Lee's advice and friendliness. | |
| Need advice on CJ preamps IMO, and apparently in CJ's opinion too, 6GK5s are not exactly world-beaters, Mullard or no. You'll note that no current model CJ uses them, unless I've missed something. My DIY audiobuddies keep trying to find a use for the ones I had left over, ... | |
| Need advice on CJ preamps Pops, all I can say is that you'd LOVE a 17LS2 :-)The main reason I ditched mine is that it had no polarity switch and I have very polarity-sensitive speakers. I just got tired of switching speaker cables all the time. But then I came to realize t... | |
| Need advice on CJ preamps I had a Premier 14 and a 17LS2. The clicking never bothered me. Very nice preamp and WAY better than the 14. But I went from the 17LS2 to an Aesthetix Calypso and like it better in every way, including the flexibility of the remote. | |
| Any cable experts online?? Whose cables are these? They look homemade. I've done it myself, with better-looking results. | |
| Thoughts on current EL-34 tubes I second the (reissue) Genelex KT-77s. Mine replaced "Holy Grail" Mullard xf1 EL34s (I also have xf2 and xf4 Mullards) as driver tubes in a pair of 845 SET monoblocks. Surprised the hell out of me. I've also tried JJ KT-77s but they're not up to t... | |
| VPI 10.5i - Which armwands do I own? Well sure, Stringreen, but that means every time you adjust VTF you have to RE-adjust azimuth .. and then readjust VTF ... etc. Much simpler to use the azimuth ring in the first place. | |
| VPI 10.5i - Which armwands do I own? I have one, Myles. Trouble is, I have three arm tubes. Yeah, I know. | |
| VPI 10.5i - Which armwands do I own? Well sure, Stringreen, but that means every time you adjust VTF you have to RE-adjust azimuth .. and then readjust VTF ... etc. Much simpler to use the azimuth ring in the first place. | |
| VPI 10.5i - Which armwands do I own? Mike told me that they make SEVEN different counterweights for these arms. Check yours. The bottom one must have a heavier counterweight than the top one. I have three 10.5i arm tubes, all different, two with 115g counterweights and one with 140g.... | |
| Is phase control switch a deal breaker for you? There's no crossover between mids and highs and just a single capacitor between woofers and mids. They're crossover-free from (I think) 150hz up. | |
| Is phase control switch a deal breaker for you? It's not so much whether or not you can hear it. It's whether your speakers LET you hear it (or make it unavoidable). | |
| Is phase control switch a deal breaker for you? I pretty much had to have a polarity switch; My Gallo speakers are "extremely polarity sensitive," in the words of a Gallo tech. I had been switching speaker cables to change polarity, but finally gave up and bought an Aesthetix Calypso (formerly ... | |
| Is preamp remote volume a deal breaker for you? Deal-breaker. My last three line stages have had remotes (CJ Premier 14, Premier 17LS2, and now Aesthetix Calypso), and I wouldn't be without one. I strongly recommend the Calypso. | |
| Inexpensive Phono Cables Recommendations CORRECTION ON PETRA CABLES. Do NOT buy the ones now (or recently) on Amazon. I tried a pair of the new ones this morning and they are awful. I cut into one (I used to reterminate these things a lot) and found that the construction is completely di... |