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| Cable lifters/towers- voodoo or the real thing? Paul McGowan from PS Audio just addressed this in his newsletter this week. He's using plastic connectors from home depot. If you can't find it on the ps audio web site, email me. | |
| Most powerful and popular EL34 tube amp? How many EL34's do you have?You are going to need 8 (or more) for some of these amps. | |
| Bi-Amping questions If you love the sound now, it can only get better by bi-amping. Just make sure that you find a matching amp. | |
| Dac Magic / Music Hall Dac25.2 / Digital Link III I just did a ton of homework on this. It appears that the Peachtree Decco 2 has an amazing DAC. For $799 you could get away with selling the 840A?I have an upgraded Music Hall CD player and both Rega Apollo and Cambridge 840c beat it in most aspec... | |
| vintage tuner: McIntosh or Sansui? Don't forget marantz | |
| Any suggestions on Tube Buffers? I saw the 283 on their site for $125. Honestly though, all you are doing is "messing" with an already clean signal. Personally, I'd consider a tube pre instead to get a better taste of tubes. I don't think a buffer will give a real taste. It's sim... | |
| Tube Fireworks Unless you have junk tubes to test it with, I'd get the amp checked out first for a bad cap or ??? | |
| Speaker Question...first post on the gon 2 Points:1-The HK is your weak link. Your system can only sound as good as the weakest link.2-Instead of bridging (great comments above), you can always bi-amp where they remain in stereo mode. Running 630 watts into the klipsch suggestion would b... | |
| Arcam AVR350 vs AVP700+amp Use the Yamaha as a pre and buy a really nice amp!It will probably be the best sounding of your choices and the least complicated compared to having to pre sections involved. | |
| Single Ended-Parallel or PP Class A Tube Amp? 87db is a little weak for 20 watts. It will only get you 90db@2watts, 93@4, 96@8, 99@16.That doesn't leave much for dynamic headroom or solid bass. You will feel like you are missing something.Single ended triode may sound the weakest. I'd go for ... | |
| Preamp advice needed Ok, I just went through the ads here. These are the 3 I would get for under $1k: VTL, BAT & Manley Shrimp. The BAT is a tank and only 1 set of outputs. That leaves the VTL and the Manley with dual sets of outputs. Now we are down to personal t... | |
| Preamp advice needed If you need a subwoofer output, that will cut the list drastically, even if you just need dual sets of outputs. Do you need a mono or stereo out for the sub? Do you mind dual volume controls? Tube gear is fun but if you're not used to it, stick to... | |
| Trying to get a CRISP, TIGHT sound from the mids Nice amp, try rolling tubes.NOS Telefunkens, Mullards & Amperex will all get different results... | |
| 1/8 plug to rca cable problem Have you tried a shorter cable?Have you tried turning the volume down on the PC?Have you tried one of the little magnets that clip around the cable to get rid of noise?Your best bet is to get a USB to RCA adaptor/DAC. There are some on here for un... | |
| Suggestion for Liszt There's one by Telarc that is amazing. |