elgordo
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| Recommended amp for Quad 57. The Quad 405 amp, which is 100 watts per channel, has places on the circuit board to plug in 2 resistors (1600 or 1800 ohms if I recall correctly) to limit the power. With these resistors in place, the amp is perfectly safe with the 57s and sounds... | |
| Retro Hi End Trivia Question How about the Dunlap-Clarke amp? And the Koss electostatic speakers (NOT headphones - these things were huge), Dayton-Wright electrostatics, Watson Labs speakers from Canada, AEA amp & preamp from Winter Park, Florida. | |
| Argent Room Lenses? Jvogt - That saving is $1140.00. Don't sell yourself short. | |
| Junked audio components - hazardous waste... Yeah, great idea. Please contact me with your Marantz 9s, 8Bs, 10Bs, 7Cs, Old QUAD ESLs, Ionovac tweeters, etc. and I'll take them off your hands. Don | |
| VINTAGE AR2- RESTORE, SELL OR JUNK ? Probably not worth the effort. If you had AR-5s, you would have the same cabinets but with much better sounding dome mid-ranges and tweeters. I've had 'em all and the 5s were my favorite. Don | |
| Any one old enough to remember? Skip - You say we all become Presbyterians after we hit 50?But seriously, the Sonus Blue was my favorite cartridge until I discovered moving coils in the late '7os. Also owned a TD125 for many years. Great table. Had a Grace 707 on mine. Don | |
| Have any of you ever modified your Vandersteen 2C? The best mod for '87 Vandys is to slip them back into their boxes and sell them. This is not an easy speaker to get into and it isn't worth the trouble. If you mod them, the resale value will be even lower than it is now. Which is pretty low. If y... | |
| Tube Question-Help The silver is called the "getter", which I believe is Magnesium. It is fired after the tube is sealed to burn off any Oxygen remaining in the tube envelope. There is a little metal halo in the tube where the magnesium was before it was fired. Afte... | |
| Perfect room size... Length should be 1.6 times the width. This is known as the "golden mean". Don | |
| Acoustic problems need advice Forget Room Tunes and accoustic panels. Make, don't buy, a set of Room Lens. Go to Audio Asylum or contact me for instructions. Highly effective and ridiculously cheap. Don | |
| Lights and Lectrostats? or electrostatics? As for how far away to sit...which model Acoustats do you have? I sit about 12 feet away from my 2+2s. Don | |
| HDCD: What do you like? Reference Recordings has a sampler or two with identical tracks in redbook and HDCD. This (these?) will let you compare. Don | |
| Screen Size vs. Room Size/Viewing Distance You couldn't give me a projector. Get a 36" direct view and sit a little closer if you need to. Don | |
| Male Jazz singers - any recommendations? Let's not forget the late, great Mel Torme. Don | |
| Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1 CD Recommendations For the reading, I prefer the Van Cliburn on RCA. Don't know if this has been redone as a "Living Stereo", if so it is probably great. From a sonic standpoint, the Byron Janis on Mercury "Living Presence" is excellent. It was recorded on 35mm film... |