garfish
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| What'sBest Deal Tube PreAmp New or Used? Lihifiguy is right on about the Sonic Frontiers SFL-1. At $500. to 650. used, it is an excellent pre-amp. Stereophile Class B in its day-- it only has one tube but yields genuine "tube" qualities that can be easily (and cheaply) changed to suit yo... | |
| Dedicated power lines for audio? Bob.... Interesting observation about glass versus ceramic fuses. I just used glass (that's what the electricians supplied with the box), and did not think to try ceramic, but your experience is much more like what Redkiwi (New Zealand) found. If ... | |
| Dedicated power lines for audio? Hi Leemark; Good comment re: phase. The 6 ga. wire I used is stranded TPC (tough pitch copper) and all the electrician did was reroute it from my garage, through the attic, and out an attic vent screen (to the outside). So actually that part went ... | |
| Dedicated power lines for audio? Leemark; I used 6 ga. wire because I had it, and it was already wired into my main breaker box. It used to feed a 180 amp arc welder, and for that was certainly not "overkill". A mainline wire is only needed to go from the main breakerbox to a sub... | |
| Dedicated power lines for audio? ....all the electrical supplies you asked about are available from any good electrical supply store, ie mainline cable, submain box (if you go that way), breakers, tubing, ground rods and cable etc.. The only special thing needed are the outlets, ... | |
| Dedicated power lines for audio? Hi Dcase...; I'm not an expert here, but recently I had a dedicated AC and ground system run into my stereo room (by electricians). From my main breaker box, I used 50 ft. of 6 gauge 3 wire from a 50 amp breaker, and ran it to a submain box with 4... | |
| Has anyone found Audio Nirvana? Hi Demar; I've really enjoyed reading the above posts and can identify with much that has already been said. I admit to being an equipment junkie too. Seven to eight years ago, I was listening through mid-fi equipment. My first two pieces of actua... | |
| Need help with room!!!! Hi Treyhoss; I have Vandersteen 3A sigs in a 14 X 22 room and sound/music quality is excellent. I think my 3As are fairly comparable in size and bass out-put to your CVs. I think you've got a nice sized room to work with. Good luck, and enjoy. Craig | |
| Jitter devices from $200 to $500 Hi Gu; The SF UJBs were reviewed several years ago in Stereophile, and at the time were class A components. I have two of them and they are excellent, but I now only need one. So, if you're interested, I'd sell a gold face UJB for $250. You can co... | |
| Best DAC under US$300 The Adcom 600 and 700 DACs are also very good and can be found used on Audiogon for $250 to $350. Good Luck. Craig | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? 3141510; Are you a music lover? If not, what are you doing on Audiogon's site? | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? Hi Carl; My predispositions are not relevant here (but I think I have an open mind). The statistical significance of Ackerman's study is highly relavant (but unreported). Universaties will often informally publish (in-house) MS and PHD theses even... | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? David; The study you refer to by german psychology student J. Ackerman, and reported on by M. Sauer in Jan. and Feb. 2000, Stereophile issues has not reported statistical significance and so, at least this time,it is only opinion, speculation, con... | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? David; It was actually Rockvirgo above that said "CD listeners appear far more serene", but I did ask for the studies you mentioned on this subject. And thanks for noting the Stereophile article. I had read it, and found it interesting-- don't rem... | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? Albert; Your post of 7/7 is the most powerful, eloquent, and oviously painful statement I've yet to see in this forum. My follow-up posts above are just "blather" (to use one of Carl's words), and add nothing. Please disregard them. My only excuse... |