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Mar 21, 2001	What type of breakers are best for audio While I do not doubt Bobs experience really happened. I have to question the outboard box suggestion. The current must still flow through 100 or 200 amp mains breakers as well as the branch off breaker to the outboard box.The best A/C panel to use...
Mar 21, 2001	Good tweaking tools to share The most important and most clearly audible system "tweak" is not really a tweak, but getting the A/C electrical polarity to all your components correct. When its backwards, a startaling loss of resolution occurs as well as soundstage losses. More...
Mar 19, 2001	Audio Research SP-10 6922 or 6DJ8 Thank you Albertporter for confirming my suspicion that the"naturalness" was in fact due to tube wear. All other tubes in my unit were not replaced.Has anyone been able to replicate the great sound of these NOS tubes. We read how the Chinese and S...
Mar 19, 2001	Tubes vs Solid State Hold on here. A solid state amplifier can in fact be made to sound tubelike. Many sucessful examples were Class A designs. These were large, heavy and ran hot.;the very thing solid state was supposed to have eliminated.Ultimately though, there hav...
Mar 17, 2001	Audio Research SP-10 6922 or 6DJ8 Thanks to both of you for your advice. My SP-10 MK 2 posessed the most perfect midrange phono reproduction I had ever heard.....until my phono (4) tubes went. They were big bottle 6dj8s marked with no name, except "made in USSR" The sound was big,...
Mar 14, 2001	Which Rogers 3/5 A is the best ever made Funny no one really answered the question. I owned Rogers LS3/5A new in 1979, new in 1983, new in 1986,ser# approx 35000, 15 ohms was the best. When they went to 11 ohms with the big change in the crossover,the "MAGIC" was gone. It just did not do...
Mar 10, 2001	Rogers 3/5 A speaker + AB subwoofer ?? The Biamp guy is nuts. If you have the 15 ohm version,(much better), crossing them over to a good sub increases thier appearent size and transparency, but a good sub x-over is hard to find and you can mess up the purity of the amp/preamp direct co...