herman
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| Phono Stage for passive preamp control Hi 4yanx, the base model of the IO with a single power supply sold originally for about $5,000 new and can be had for about half of that. The more expensive IO units you have seen have 2 power supplies, and/or are Signature or MKII models, and/or ... | |
| Phono Stage for passive preamp control You should be able to get a used Aesthetix IO (the basic model) for around $2500. Tons of gain using tubes and sounds great. Designed to drive an amp directly with optional built in stepped attenuators but this will set you back a few thousand mor... | |
| Acoustic Bass, Trombone, and Baritone For trombone playing I second Marakanetz on the Carla Bley."Live" has some Valente trombone playing that will get you up out of your chair.J.J. Johnson for some good bop trombone in small group settings. Bruce Gertz Quintet "Blueprint". Gertz on a... | |
| What music have you been buying lately? I just got a copy of Miles Davis "live at Montreux". Awesome!!! Of course with 20 CD's not everything is awesome, but one of the most consistent big sets I have heard. Not for everyone since this is his later period with music like you will hear o... | |
| Good but not so well known harmonica blues bands. James Harman, always surrounds himself with first rate players, plays a great harmonica, and writes songs with clever lyrics. Check out "Two sides to Every Story" for a good introduction to this highly entertaining musician. Better yet, catch him ... | |
| SET Speaker Compatability ? No, I think not unless you listen at very low levels. | |
| Beautiful, uplifting music... Brahms, "Leider & Romanzen, secular choruses" Arnold Schoenberg choir. Teldec 4509-92058-2My decidely non-audiophile wife describes this as sounding like angels singing. Maybe more beautiful than uplifting but does both. I am usually pleased w... | |
| Best line conditioner??? Hi Mr. Parrot, TAS likes it so that is the final word? Nuff said? Come on. It may be a good place to start, but unless you assemble the reviewer's exact system including his room, you are unlikely to get the same results. | |
| Worth more used? There is some vintage gear that sells for more dollars than when new, such as some McIntosh and Marantz amps. But if you take inflation into account it is probably worth less than when it was new. | |
| Using 2 pair of speaker cables for single hookup ? Why don't you try it, if it sounds better, then I would say that is a definite advantage. The time that it takes a signal to travel down these cables is a fraction of a microsecond so I don't think you need to worry about phase shifts. | |
| $4500 amp beat out the Tenor OTL in the latest TAS I thought the Halcro was the best sounding amp of all time, no maybe it was the Kronzilla, no perhaps it was ??????????. The opinion of TAS is just that. | |
| SET - Limitations from Amp, Speaker Match, Both? As a fan of the systems you descibe, I think your assumptions are a little off. A low power SET amp coupled to a high efficiency driver in a properly designed cabinet will be about as dynamic and as detailed as you can get. There will be plenty of... | |
| Running a cdplayer directy to an amp impedence q The output impedance of the source (CD player) should be much lower than than the input impedance of the load (amp) so the numbers you gave are fine for both amps. The voltages for the amps would be the voltages needed to drive them to maximum out... | |
| Where have all the protest songs gone? Steve Earle can throw together a pretty good protest song. Not exactly mainstream, but I recommend you give him a listen. | |
| Center image on left side and don't know why I too have been plagued with this problem from time to time. It has almost always been solved by speaker placement, toe in and/or distance from the listening position. It is amazing how seemingly insignificant changes in these two factors can caus... |