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| BEST AMPS FOR WILSON SASHA It's obvious, that Wilson speakers have the ability to severely scar some people. I had a similar experience from the owner of a hi-end shop in Sydney that had the retailer-ship taken away from them, before that they couldn't heap enough praise fo... | |
| BEST AMPS FOR WILSON SASHA If anyone says Wilsons have harsh highs, they need to look seriously at their amps preamps or source for the problem. As Wilson highs are about the only one of a couple dynamic driver top ends that I can listen to and still like compared to my ESL... | |
| CD transports or players Any decent quality transport will do, just use a proper quality digital 75ohm coax cable to your Jolida,, as many are 100ohms, make sure they specify 75ohms. You need also to be careful using the Jolida - FX Tube DAC III is a bit flawed in my opin... | |
| BEST AMPS FOR WILSON SASHA And to boot Al,, not just zero global feedback to bring output impedance down, but in conjunction with a minimum transformer tap of 4ohm, is another indication of a "not very good match", with these types of impedance loads that Sasha's and many o... | |
| BEST AMPS FOR WILSON SASHA A big +1 for the Pass amps, as they will stay uniform over the audio band range in frequency response driving the Sasha varying loads.The 211’s will act like a tone control and not stay flat in it’s power delivery, especially around 60- 100hz wher... | |
| Internal power supply upgrade? http://www.asi-tek.com/marantz6.html Cheers George | |
| Internal power supply upgrade? CDP's have many different supply sources inside, I've seen up to 10 or 12 and then which one to mod first is a toss of the coin. Being I remember reading a re-modeled Marantz DV-9500, look for mods that have been done to that unit to get better s... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... If she says what a difference to the sound before, or even that sounds good, ill take it as judgment. She's just keeping you interested, if you know what I mean???Cheers George | |
| Comments on new B&W 800 D3 My friend has a pair, very nice but very hard to drive to their full potential. You need big S/S amps with good current with BJT outputs (no Mosfets), IE: amps that almost keep doubling their wattage with each halving of loads 8ohms to 4ohms to 2o... | |
| speaker coupling question I was finally able to get the spikes even where the stands are solid to the cement slab, but wow it did take a while. I think whoever put that slab in had a hangover!That's why spikes are adjustable, and yes a PITA to setup, once done don't move t... | |
| Preamp for Mcintosh MC2500 Yes I see that now you don’t like detented vc and dual mono they are a pain to some. But as far as being more dangerous because of power delivery, not so. As your amp say for theoretical example has 10 x gain on it's intput driver stage, and when/... | |
| speaker coupling question Cement floor is the best to spike into (couple) you should only de-couple on wooden or suspended floors. As you never want the wooden/suspended floor acting as a "sound board" for the speakers, which happens if you spike into them. As for your pro... | |
| Preamp for Mcintosh MC2500 You need to re-think Zoya. EG: If an active preamp is accidently left up full connected to the direct input of the amp, and the source goes dc the amp will blow up and take out speakers.If the source is only connected the passive variable input of... | |
| Preamp for Mcintosh MC2500 I wouldn't run the amp without a preamp. To easy to damage speakers that way.Why would you say this, if the volume is up on a preamp it's just as deadly, if anything it's safer going direct as there would be less full gain than a preamp would give... | |
| Shangling CD-T100 CD Player in need of repair Great that all is good now. You are now what's called a laser modifier, first one I've ever heard of. Now you know how easy they are to replace, and how some charge way too much to do the job.Cheers George |