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| Any harm in leaving gear in the cold? Hi Jeff; I can identify with the "cold/hot" issue as I grew up in North Dakota-- not too far from Winnepeg. I've not had actual experience with a situation like you describe, but I think the worst problem could be repeated heating and cooling with... | |
| Tube vs Solid State - Comparable Output? Jim; a question that I've asked too. John_1 thanks for the input re: actual experience of tube amps vs solid state and bass control-- you may have saved me a lot of money! Cheers. Craig. | |
| What's most important? ......I should have also noted that I use 5 ASC tube traps to facilitate speaker/room interaction-- AND I have 3 ASC panel traps on order to deal with side wall reflections. Cheers. Craig | |
| What's most important? Hi Robert; I've got to go with you on this one (at least for 1st place). If the speaker room interface doesn't work, what's in the rest of the system won't matter. I learned this the hard way-- had Vand. 2Ces (good sized speaker) in a 12 X 14 room... | |
| Important Qualities Other than Sound Hi Onhwy61; --like your name. You've really nailed most of the important "other stuff", but one I would add is component features, eg when I found out that Levinson's M37 CD transport had a permanent program track memory for 1,000s of CDs, in addi... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Hi No_Money; Congrats on your new house-- soundwise, I bet you'll really like the cathedral ceiling (wish my stereo room had one). You'll have fun with speaker placement and room acoustics. With dedicated outlets, your system may sound too bright,... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Hi No_Money; If you have room acoustics under control, good power cords, and vibration(s) under control, maybe a dedicated AC and ground system (if circumstances permit)-- the component I might look at is your CD player. But if you really like the... | |
| Most Honest Audio Magazine? Listener Magazine email address: listener@palmcoastd.com They say $30. for a USA subscription, $40. Canada, but I paid $17.97 on a promotional offer. I like it for $17.97. It's an every other month mag.. So far, they've reviewed quite a bit of "no... | |
| Best Glad to see support for Vandersteen 2C and 3A speakers-- I own them both. Re: Tubegroover; It seems to me as an essentially boxless design, R. Vandersteen avoids the large cost(s) associated with the furniture grade veneers of box design speakers.... | |
| The best and worst Audiogon poster's Albert; thanks for the fun comments re: "Gar". Never really meant to be secretive about my last name-- Garland, but AudiogoN kind of encourages User Names. In athletics, college, and early professional years my nickname was "Gar" and sometimes Gar... | |
| The best and worst Audiogon poster's Hi Eldragon; The Garfish or "Gar" is a long, slender fish of U.S. temperate waters; a fast and fierce predator. And an honorable fish, IMHO. Cheers. Craig. | |
| All-time best recordings for romance Diana Krall's and Natalie Cole's jazz ballads. Cheers. Craig | |
| Best Used Tube Preamp (under $750)? I agree with Sonic Frontiers SFL-1 or SFL-1 Signature-- used one myself for several years. The single tube makes tube rolling inexpensive. Luck. Craig | |
| 6550 vs KT88 vs KT90 Trelja; thanks much for the specific info. on the big amp tubes. Jordan, it was particularly good to hear your comparison of the DNA-2 with some good tube amps-- and glad to hear that tubes can be competitive in the bass. Thanks, and Cheers. Craig. | |
| Best Vandersteen 2C speakers-- all their models, and Adcom 600 DA Converter. These two pieces provided my first tastes of high end audio. Years ago when I plugged my old Phillips CD player into the Adcom 600 (via coax), I quickly came to realize that C... |