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A/B Vinyl/Digital
80% of the "soul" of the music is in the performance. 15% is in the recording and mixing, which may differ for vinyl and digital releases. Of the remaining 5%, the mood of the listener is predominant. The medium, vinyl or digital disc, plays a sma... 
"tube watts" versus "solid state watts"
Actually...a watt is current times voltage. It is unlikely that an amplifier will "run out" of voltage capability at the same time that it runs out of current capability. You could have an amplifier with low "rail" voltages that could deliver huge... 
2 Channel Sub Woofer, 1 or 2 Sub-woofers?
If you were designing a (cost-no-object)speaker system having response to 20 Hz or so, would you choose to put one of the drivers in a separate enclosure located several feet away from the rest of the system? I think not. IMHO, each main speaker s... 
other then bose what amp could drive
Johnnyb53...With automatic room equalization readily available (Behringer DEQ2496 for example) there is no such thing as a "secret" equalization curve. As I have described in another posting I have Bose 901 speakers in my HUGE swimming pool room, ... 
Neighbor Complaining...
Buy a house or take up another hobby. 
Sibilance in recordings: your experience the same?
Sibilance is usually in the recording and is a characteristic of microphones, some worse than others. 
Directional fuse and integrated IEC outlet
Suggestion...try it both ways and pick the one that you like. This will give you satisfaction, regardless of whether there is any effect or not. 
dynaco st120 amps
The ST120 has a cult following. It is a unique circuit, best described as a preamp on steroids...output through a huge capacitor. It was, in some regards, superior to the later ST150 which was a conventional circuit configuration. I had one for ye... 
Anybody heard of Girard turntables?
Garrard came up with an interesting concept for a click-and-pop eliminator. The device never got into mass production. The idea was to do the processing on the raw signal from the cartridge, before the RIAA equalization that rolls off highs (makin... 
Anybody heard of Girard turntables?
Response34...Of course, yours is a changer...not a single-play TT. The TT I had as my first system looked very similar, but without the nice wood base. One had to furnish your own base. Many times the TT was mounted in a console, and you just had ... 
Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment
Tvad...What do you do with all those old toilets? They might make a dandy enclosure for a horn-loaded speaker system :-) Sort of a Bose wave configuration. 
Sound canceling headphones reduce SPL?
Noise canceling headphones were developed for aircraft pilots who need to hear ATC clearly in a noisy aircraft environment. They will never be audiophile-approved. Why? Because the best ones (by far) are made by Bose! 
I am sick of cables
Watch your back. The cable police will be looking for you :-) 
Review: Mye Sound speaker stands Magnepan- MG-20 Tweak
Cwlondon...I don't doubt that you hear what you hear. What I am skeptical about is the explanation offered...less movement of the Maggie frame. If not psychological, which I do think is, at least partially, responsible, perhaps all the metal struc... 
Clarinet concertos anyone?
In rummaging through my CDs last night I found a CD copy which I had labeled "Mozart Basoon Concerto". I played it, and what do you know....the same music that I have played on the clarinet and the viola. Sounds good on basoon. I guess Mozart woul...