drubin
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| The most detailed speaker cable?? I'd like to take Sean and Robert E. Greene of TAS and lock them up in a room together and watch the festivities. The esteemed Dr. Greene thinks pretty much like Rsbeck except that he also doesn't care much about source components or amplification.... | |
| tube upgrade for first sound I'm having the exact same problerm with a new pair of EH6922's. Sometimes tubes go bad well before their time, I guess. Maddening.I'm almost certain it can't be the OA2, which is not in the signal path and thus can't create the kind of distortion ... | |
| Review: Portal Panache Integrated Amplifier Steve, I couldn't follow that.I think the question at hand is not integrated vs. separates but an active preamp section vs. a passive preamp section in an integrated. It certainly seems logical that eliminating the additional gain stage of the act... | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons Thanks. Okay, so who makes a "true full-range point source omni dirver" loudspeaker? | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons Do the models in the current Walsh Mk II series qualify? | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Marco, I have her album The Milk-Eyed Mender. Great songs and playing. The voice is a bit of a challenge, as you say. | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons I find it curious how little mention there is of Joseph Audio speakers in these forums. Given how great they always seem to sound at shows, I would expect them to be more popular. Limited distribution, I guess. Too pricey? Maybe. But look at Verit... | |
| Parasound JC1's vs. Sim Audio W10 Uh oh. Ah...I hate to tell you this, but the Pass needs 2,000 hours to sound good. | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? My understanding is that the OA2 tubes are either good or they are not, but they don't go bad over time. Also, as I recently discovered, the preamp works just fine even after they do go bad (or at least after one goes bad). The triode tube doesn't... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? Yikes! Rackon is correct, I do mean finer increments. I always thought this was an appropriate use of granular, but I just went to the dictionary and see that I'm all wet (or liquid, if you prefer). More steps in the stepped attentuator, how's tha... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? The only reason I'd look for an alternative, really, is to have a remote and to have more granularity in the volume adjustment. Oh, a mono switch would be nice I suppose. Better sound is difficult for me to imagine, but that would be a factor, too... | |
| What can you tell me about First Sound pre-amps? Too many options. He should simplify, or at least re-organize the product line.I'd like to know what mphnkns's preamp of choice is (I assume it's not the First Sound).And damn, this disucssion has made me very curious to try the Aesthetic Calypso ... | |
| How do the Cary 303/300 and Meridian G08 compare? Nothing to contribute, but are you willing to share your impressions of the 303/300 vs. the 200? | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Wel. I have three pairs in my listening room now and it's not helping at all. In fact, it just adds to the anxiety. But if they were each permanently situated and I could just flip a switch, preferably by remote, it could work. A non-audiophile wa... | |
| Review: Portal Panache Integrated Amplifier Your photography analogy is excellent, Marco. My point, which you clearly get, would be that if someone gets off on that "most accurate rendering of their 'real' color, who are we to say that is not a worthwhile pursuit. |