gladstone

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Best Vinyl stores in L.A.
You need to be very, very careful at the Record Collector. Prices are grossly inflated; he views himself as a kind of art dealer selling Monets and Rembrandts, as he likes to put it, and charges accordingly. But if there is an LP that you really w... 
Martin Logan's Prodigy
The Stereophile review was shoddy. It failed, as I recall, to compare the Prodigy's directly to other speakers and seems to have been written in slap-dash fashion. I found it uninformative. 
Need help: Levinson 333 vs 336
No comparison. Get the 336. 
A. Eidolon v. JM Lab Utopia
Thanks for the comments. I assumet he Ediolons would work well in a large room with a 15 foot cathedral ceiling? No, JM Lab defenders out there? 
A. Eidolon v. JM Lab Utopia
Thin, because the room is too big for them? 
New Magnepan MG-20.1 First Thoughts??
I hope so. WOuld be great to hear them, though they've been promising them for awhile. 
New Magnepan MG-20.1 First Thoughts??
Where is it? Have you heard it? 
Cardas Caps Worthwhile?
A waste of money. I bought them and can tell absolutely no difference. 
Ref 2, MK 1 v. Mk, II
Tubes can help, but I wonder about the basic redesign of the preamp, going to the so-called supertube. How super is it? 
Star Grounding
Talked to audio control and some other electricians who see no problem in establishing independent grounding rod for the outlets. 
B W N802 with Pass 350?
Yes. So would the Classe Omicron. 
Star Grounding
I actually don't think it's against code, as long as you go to one grounding rod. 
Star Grounding
Mike--when you say not cross each other, you mean physically, I assume? And thanks, everyone, for the advice. I'm going to star ground my outlets.See what you think of this: I will have the electrician--helieve it or not, he's more than willing to... 
Best Tube Amp under 5K
Get the ARC Ref 1 or a CAT Ultimate used. 
Hovland-Pre,anyone heard it ?
It's clearly a very fine preamp. I heard it at the Home Entertainment show in NY. You can't go wrong with it, esp. for phono.