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Best "New" Acoustical Treatment Science Advance
Bill, fight us not. . . join us instead. Besides the inpecable hard-nosed and trend-setting socio-audio-zoological science, there is seriously major $$$ to be made here! And I am earnestly sayng all of this with my tongue firmly planted in my shee... 
Preamp Deal of the Century
Sorlowski, the best place to rattle Roger paul's own corporate H-cat cage is likely on the:Is there anything better than the final H-cat" thread. 
Best "New" Acoustical Treatment Science Advance
Oh my, 'bull in the audio shoppe' has now acquired at least three different meanings! 
Best "New" Acoustical Treatment Science Advance
Witchcraft you say? And why do bells sit at the top of steeples of tiny hamlets where farm animals abund? Perhaps to tell the sheep the time of day? No sir, not at all, sheep know all along when it's time to eat and chew cud. Those large enharmoni... 
Audio Research REF3 / REF110 owners...
Ref 3 is dead quiet also on 19 years old Rowland 7M monos. Better get that 110 looked after. Guido 
Best "New" Acoustical Treatment Science Advance
And if you want to go for broke. . . buy an individually sized Acoustic Resonator for each bioformed zootechnic absorber, and hang it around your (oops I meant 'its') neck. Find Resonators too expensive? My own company -- Schmaltzenstein Audio Int... 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
Hi JC, sorry I am confused, please explain 'better' 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
Billbench, your description of the sound of the VTL 7.5 is consistent with my early findings a couple of years ago on a 7.5 version 1. I did find its presentation very tuneful with 'soft' treble and -- to me at least -- slightly deemphasized trans... 
Review: Pass Labs X250.5 Amplifier
Fab review Zear!! TeaJay, any plans to taste test the XA100.5 or any other XA.5 models? 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
Thank you Jonas, if the reviewer has truly compared the Ref 3 with the old and original VTL 7.5 v1, the entire conclusions of the article would be invalidated. 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
PS in ARC 3 is tubed to the best of my Knowledge. There is both an 6H30 and a 6550C at this time in it. 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
CytoCycle, if the 6550C was running out of steam, a suck out in mid bass is only the beginning of the slow spiral of 'grayness'. Next all highs would go the way of the Dodobird. Mr. Hardesty is certainly controversial. I have read some of his edit... 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
Bar81, I have heard rumors of a high noise floor on Ref 3, but can not substantiate it. All Ref 3s I have listened to, including my very own are totally dead quiet. I can only guess that some degraded tubes may be the cause of the noisyness on the... 
Any Comparisons between VTL 7.5 & ARC Ref 3
For what it's worth, Richard Hardesty's Audio Perfectionist has just published an extensive comparative review of the VTL 7.5 v2, Esthetix Callisto Signature with twin external PS, and the ARC Ref 3. I do not have access to the complete article, b... 
New Pass Labs X.5 series versus previous X series
Pass Labs is introducing a new series of amps, dubbed the XA.5 series. Some initial details on three of these amps have been posted on the Pass labs site in the last few days: XA330.5, XA60.5 and XA100.5. They seem to differ from the original XA s...