gbmcleod
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| A prospective Teres owner with questions So, only the 200 series turntables and higher are "finished," then? I noticed that there are two prices: "Kit" and "Assembled". The "kit" part's been made as clear as that acrylic platter. What else does the "assembled" price include - besides the... | |
| Anyone listened to the new Mirage Omni 50s or 60s Just bought a pair today. Set them up pretty casually in the room. W-O-W, can you say soundstage?!?!?!?They make my Hale Rev 3s sound positively congested in imaging and soundstaging. I noted that in the Soundstage review of the 260s, he compared ... | |
| preamp to go with Plinius 250mk4 and SF Extremas I can vouch for the First Sound also. Mine just came back less than two weeks ago, completely updated to current specs. While I would never claim it is "The Best," it is certainly a magical preamp. It does, however, take weeks to break in, as I fo... | |
| High Level Distortion Thanks, I've taken that approach already. The drivers aren't blown, but it wouldn't likely happen on three speaker systems, in any case. And I have several amps, several speaker systems.However, since then, the harshness seems to have gone, which ... | |
| Imaging and soundstage Stehno:Maybe you could put that into plain English for those of us who are equation-challenged.Use an example -- with real numbers, please. This sounds interesting, but I don't 'get' your drift | |
| Tube Rolling For ASL Hurricanes Hmmm...I have to disagree with the poster who indicated that one needed to change the stock tubes to get "anywhere near" the performance capabilities of the Hurricanes. They are magnificent as they are: the imaging size of instruments in the back ... | |
| Best 6SN7 for the money? You might think about calling Andy at Vintage Tube Services. He will send you tubes to try out. As far as all the opinions, Andy and I spoke today about these tubes. His "take" is that the Tung-Sols are good, but somewhat lighweight; the Sylvanias... | |
| New Nordost Cable Valkyrja I tried the Valkyrja cables a month ago. I thought they were quite good. I have Quattro Fils in the system now, and I also have the Shunyata Aries interconnects. The Valkyrja is clearly more transparent, especially from the upper midrange up. Inte... | |
| Is a cable cooker worth it? As long as you are aware that it has deleterious effects on some cables.Apparently, it doesn't work well with Shunyata interconnects, per another thread where someone burned in the Aries interconnects on the cable cooker, and it caused a 'rising h... | |
| tube traps didn't help The tube traps DO work, but they need to be placed in the correct places, with the orientation of the seams correctly positioned, and that doesn't happen in an hour's time or so.It has been said that the best place to locate tube traps are in the ... | |
| Review: Ridge Street Audio Midnight Silver Edition Interconnect This question is actually in regard to the associated equipment you used in the review.Is the First Sound Presence the Deluxe (current) version, or the older version from around 1996? I'm wanting to determine if I would get the same results with m... | |
| Room Treatments added, with negative effects.. Bombaywalla:I assure you that I wasn't suggesting that your advice was incorrect in any way. Consider my comments an addendum to yours, in case Outlier wanted to use Tube Traps. I've seen them placed wrongly in many rooms. Even reviewers install t... | |
| Has anyone heard the Shunyata Cables? Nighthawk:I agree with the tonality statement. I have never been that interested in "detail" for its own sake: I'm listening to music, not "sound." It seems to me that there is a great deal of focus on aspects of sound more than on the musical exp... | |
| Shunyata King Cobra V1 verses V2 P.S. Gilas, do you mean the original(v1) is more "yin" or "yang"? You've combined both words into "ying" which could be either yin or yang. Which do you mean??? | |
| Shunyata King Cobra V1 verses V2 It seems I have a couple of V2s from my copy of the Audiogon emails I have. |