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| How did you choose your equipment? Mapman, Elizabeth got an audiophile grade chicken. . . she got it used on Agon for a song.. . . and that was of course a used song. | |
| How did you choose your equipment? I am very conservative and change components very slowly: Research+ears, and serendipity+ears. I do my research in a variety of ways: Internet, mags, and a lot of phone calls to friends, dealers, importers, manufacturers. Eaquipped with my own tes... | |
| Questions for Vandersteen 5A owners... Madfloyd, what you describe appears to be a little atypical of well fed and well setup 5As. May I ask what the electronic was, cabling, etc. . .? | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Yup, little Capri is one amazing device, and still remains my reference linestage. I hope that some day I'll be fortunate enough to compare a Capri and a Criterion side by side in my system. | |
| Hansen Emperor vs...... Thank you Wildwildwes, I may be very well wrong on the 2nd count as well, that would not surprise me. I was in the auditorium for over 2 hours during and after the 2007 TAS seminar. I recall asking what electronics was driving the Hansens. . . my ... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Just managed to obtain one small technical tidbit from Jeff Rowland. . . Criterion utilizes the same oversized input and output Lundahl transformer that JRDG already has used on the 312 stereo amp and the Continuum 500 integrated. In the meantime,... | |
| What is your favorite material for loudspeakers? Soundsrealaudio, this is very encouraging. . . if you consider that it took about 500 years for fiddles to progress from early Moorish example to reach the greatness of the Cremonese masters. . . while contemporary luthiers have already achieved r... | |
| Vienna Acoustics sounded terrible at Magnolia Yes, Vienna speakers have uhrn. . . interesting impedance curves. They work best with amps with very high damping factors (above 400)( or they will sound overly warm. For this reason, class D amps work particularly well with Vienna. G. | |
| Vienna Acoustics sounded terrible at Magnolia Sadly, the answer is quite simple. . . Magnolia did not place the speakers correctly in the room. When Vienna speakers are not set up properly, the result can be appalling. . . bloated disjointed bass, shouting mid treble. . . as I said, appalling... | |
| ICE amps need cooling? magfan, JRDG Model 9 monos yield 350W per channel with max current of of 70Amps continuous http://jeffrowland.com/ClassicSpecs.htm#M9Batteries were housed in chassis matching the main units. No WAF issues on JRDG products to the best of my knowled... | |
| break-in for Marantz SA-7S1 Phaser, the Marantz SA7S1 may represent exceptional value for the money, yet it does not pretend to be the ultimate digital front end. . . I have had the opportunity of A/Bing Marantz SA7-S1 with Playback Designs MPS-5, and the latter with TEAC P-... | |
| ICE amps need cooling? Magfan, the old JRDG model 9 mono amp used sealed Lead acid batteries. It as a class A/B design. Conversely, the JRDG Criterion linestage uses industrial-grade NiMH and has a built in smart charger. | |
| ICE amps need cooling? On the subject of battery PS, JRDG has implemented a battery PS on its new Criterion linestage flagship. . . which hopefully will ship before year end. G. | |
| ICE amps need cooling? Most recent JRDG amps use SMPS, including the 312 stereo, which is designed around the ASP1000 module. While 300 series amps have substantive cast Aluminum cooling fins, I suspect these may be more cosmetic than anything else, as the external temp... | |
| break-in for Marantz SA-7S1 It's interesting how one audiophile's 'analitical' player is often an other audiophile's 'musical' one. Conversely, one audiophile's 'musical' player, may be judged as overly 'warm' by someone else. 'Dissonant perception' or simply 'differing tast... |