ghostrider45
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| Hammond b-3 organ There's a book out called "Beauty and the B" by Mark Vail that goes into the history of the Hammonds. BTW, the Leslie speaker was not a Hammond product. Hammond viewed Leslie as a competitor. They changed the electrical interface to external tone ... | |
| If tube amp is left on, but not playing........ To Herman:I hold an Amateur Radio license (though inactive now), and back in the late 60's early 70's just about all amateur gear was tube. The bigest cause of tube failure was considered to be thermal cycling caused by turn on/turn off cycles. Ma... | |
| Ready to Throw my Wadia 6i out the window. HELP I second Denman's recommendation to contact Steve Huntley at Great Northen Sound. In addition to being very knowlegable, Steve will go above and beyond the call of duty to help his customers. | |
| If tube amp is left on, but not playing........ An SET runs Class A (by definition!), and tubes in Class A designs pass plate current equal to rated power output at idle, so you should expect a significant impact on tube life. What you want is a tube amp with the option to turn off just the B+ ... | |
| Best off the beaten bath x-mas music..... Bob Rivers - Twisted ChristmasIt seems to get the mood just right! | |
| Perfect music for... a while? Sounds like an isolated problem to me. I have some CD's going back to 1983 that are fine. | |
| The plight of SACD.... Like it or not, a lot of music (especially the jazz I listen to) simply isn't available on vinyl, so the quality issue is moot. It's the silver disk or nothing.Actually the silver disc can sound pretty good (both redbook and SACD).I hadn't listene... | |
| XRCD vs. SACD My system has a Wadia 7/9 combination and a Sony SCD-1 in the digital front end. I've had the SCD-1 for two years now.In general I find the Wadia on redbook to be a bit better than the SCD-1 on redbook (better soundstage and midrange).XRCD's on th... | |
| Motor for NAK 1000zxl ? Check out the unofficial Nakamichi web site at www.naks.comAmong other things there is a list of non-Nakamichi-affiliated repair shops. Perhaps one of them could help. | |
| Want to get excited about SACD again?? On the front end, I have a Wadia 7/9 combo for red book, and an unmodified SCD-1 for SACD.On redbook, I find that the Wadia combo has an edge over the SCD-1, but if I didn't have the Wadia for comparison I could be very satisfied with the SCD-1. T... | |
| Want to get excited about SACD again?? The player will not pick up bits from the CD layer when playing the SACD layer. First, the laser (a shorter wavelength one, at that) is not focused on the CD layer. Second, the bits are not stored on the disc in a linear fashion like music in the ... | |
| Anybody using Wilsons or Soundlabs with Pass Labs? I'm using Aleph 1.2's with a pair of Apogee Duetta Signatures. These replaced a pair of Krell KMA100 Mk 2's.They are a very synergistic match. Bass is slightly less in quantity but much better in definition. The mids and highs are far superior and... | |
| What are your thoughts on the Dragon tape deck? I've owned a Dragon since 1987. It's a great cassette deck. No one has mentioned it's key claim to fame: automatic azimuth adjustment. The deck continuously adjusts the azimuth of the playback head during tape movement to match the tape in use. Th... | |
| best amp match for apogee caliper? Tendollarman - the Apogee Calipers are 3 ohm speakers that demand a lot of current to function well. I don't think this is tube amp territory (much as I love them with the right speakers).Of the choices listed the Krell and the Classe are tried an... | |
| I can't really hear a big difference This thread is an interesting commentary on the psycology of the Audiophile (and I say this as a full fleged member of the club). We automatically assume that the more expensive piece just has to sound better than the inexpensive one, and look for... |