ed_sawyer
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| CES - Which Days? I'll be there for all the days. (Wed. - Sun.). the T.H.E. actually is running through Monday. Yes "Booth" must mean room I Think. Most all the high-end stuff is at either Alexis Park or the San Remo (T.H.E. show)definitely let's plan some sort of ... | |
| What tubes for ARC LS 5 preamp - 6922/6DJ8 I'd second the nomination of Amperex, but everything they make is great, 6DJ8, 6922 and 7308. 6DJ8's are nice, their earliest type (Bugle boy, etc.) is not crazy money. Let me know if you need some, I have at least 10 I can part with. Check my fee... | |
| Tungsol 5881's Describe the differences among the 3 types of KR Black Glass 6SN7GT please. -Ed | |
| JM Reynaud Trente- have you heard them? comments? Pretty decent sounding, agreed. Finish work/appearance could be better, IMHO, for the price. Fairly efficient, which is a plus. Instability of the manufacturer (switching distributor) is somewhat disturbing. Somewhat overpriced, at retail I think.... | |
| Which hi-end Sony SACD player to buy? That's a load of BS. (SACD done in 6 mos.). Just look at the reasoning:1) Why would sony tell someone individually and not make an announcement?2) Why would they make an announcement anyway? Good way to kill remaining sales of any product in the d... | |
| Which hi-end Sony SACD player to buy? Agreed, when I get one it will be SCD-1. (which will play CD-R's too, not sure on CD-RW, but since I Dont' have any I dont' really care). You can also still buy them new from oade.com (and others) with factory 5 year warranty.-Ed | |
| Riddle me this... I am surprised no one has mentioned the 47Lab Gaincard - the epitome of the minimalist amp - 25wpc (or 50), small # of parts, very minimalist design and circuit. Sounds great! -Ed | |
| MDF for walls in music listening room Rives - thanks for the idea - will take that into consideration and likely be contacting you in the somewhat near future. thanks-Ed | |
| How good is 8000 dollar Sony Dac transport from 89 I saw those on Agon too - they looked interesting. I'd take the chance if you have the $. You can always move them later for same $ I bet. I thought about it but already have an XA7ES and am looking for an SCD-1. Overall, the sony high-end stateme... | |
| Got screwed using Paypal What to do? Basically, don't use paypal if you can help it. Their customer service is worse than useless. Definitely issue a chargeback against them (Paypal). They will hate it and fight it and may lock up your account (take out all $ now if you have any in t... | |
| MDF for walls in music listening room Rives - I have a concrete basement room I am going to finish/spruce up for a listening room, about 20x13x7-8 or so. Where can one find that Owens Corning panel material you have spoke of in the past? I was thinking put up some reasonably absorbtiv... | |
| Source for Variac Some variacs come with fuses. At a hamfest this fall, I picked up a sweet old Tektronix unit, 10A I think, with Triplett meter that can be switched between incoming and outgoing line, 2A and 10A fuses built in, adjustable dial (of course), removab... | |
| Tubes....did I pass up a good deal? Without knowing more it's hard to say if it was a good deal or not. If they were NOS, then yes of course it would have been a good deal. RE: Upscale - unless you have bought gear there, dont' bother - the 6DJ8/6922's (anything other than old russi... | |
| Sony DVP-S9000ES vs DVP-NS999ES Tsrart - ah, ok - my misintepretation. I have heard similar things - that basically if you don't see Attack of the Clones in a digital (projection) theater, then it's going to be ho-hum as far as picture goes. Seems like that is the case. Too bad.... | |
| Sony DVP-S9000ES vs DVP-NS999ES the 9000ES has component outs. Attack of the clones is probably one of the better transfers lately, since it was originally recorded on digital videotape, not film. I think overall it looks slightly soft and a bit too "fake". If you think 480p is ... |