honest1
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| Do high level sub inputs really sound better? When you use high level inputs, itdoes not cause your power amp to work any hardr, because the input impedance of the sub is so high, it does not draw much current/power from the power amp. It is as if you had all the power of the power amp in a p... | |
| Vinyl Outselling CD Great points by Eldartford and KThomas. I think the point isn't that the only way to sit and listen to music is via vinyl, but that if you are listening to vinyl, it requires you to pay more attention to it. Some of the young people I know listen ... | |
| Vinyl Outselling CD The NPR story provided by Nrostov's link states that record sales were 1 million compared to 500 million CDs (I didn't catch what year this was for). So vinyl has a long way to go before it outsells CD. But it does sound like CD sales are declinin... | |
| Vinyl Outselling CD The author of this seems to be confusing larger sales volume with larger sales growth: "...accounting for 14.7% of all physical singles sales in 2005, up from 12.2% in 2004..."Presumably, the other 85.3% was on CD. It could even be the case that v... | |
| Tim Commerford Audioslave bass tone Maybe I was off. I just found the interview, and re-read it. Funny thing is the first time I read it, he came off as sounding very arrogant, like he thought his tone and playing were better than anything anyone else had ever done, but having re-re... | |
| Linn -- one generation ago I tried out the Linn Espeks in a home demo, and liked them very much. They can produce huge quantities of bass, and are great fun to listen to - very musical. The key is room placement - they have rear firing woofers, and respond more dramatically... | |
| Do you remember? Spica, too. Some of the best loudspeakers made, at affordable prices. They were bought by an electronics company, then shut down. I spoke to the original owner (John Bau) about this once. He seemed quite surprised and disapointed. He sounded like ... | |
| Spare change on a speaker cabinet My guess is that if it has any effect at all it comes from a metal object vibrating in sympathy with certain musical notes, addin g a sense of high frequency sparkle. There is a company that makes little bells (they call them "resonators") out of ... | |
| Wavac MD 300B Monoblocks Your mention of 805 reminds me of something - have you considered the big Cary monoblocks? I also heard these at CES in Cary's room and was very impressed. I remember thinking that when I heard them, everything I had read about SET amps made sense... | |
| Wavac MD 300B Monoblocks I heard Wavac equipment at CES a couple years ago. I was expecting something really special, from the makers of $350,000 amps, and I was quite disappointed. I think I heard 2 Wavac systems. One was in a Wavac room, their $175,000 mopnoblocks. The ... | |
| Will SS mess with my tubes?? Don't listen to Tarsando, I think he's just messin' with ya. (I think) | |
| Tube output stage Yeah, sue whoever plugged it into the dryer outlet!!! | |
| Review: Machina dynamica Brilliant Pebbles Tweak Sc - I was wondering the same thing myself!!! For those that actually believe in the pebbles, how do you know where to put them? Do they look like anything other than beach rocks? Have you tried just using a mason jar full of regular beach rocks? | |
| Can a direct CD to amp connection degrade sound? I have tried a couple pre-amps with my GNSC modded Wadia 850, and never found anything that gave a significant improvement. Most take something away. Even when I felt like there was an improvement in some parameter, there was more lost in other pa... | |
| Need a 100 WPC Integrated Tube amp, reco's please? Try finding a JJ Electronics 828. They put out 70 wpc. It is made by the tube manufacturer JJ Electronic, so they know something about tubes. I have one in my second system, and like it, plus it's quite attractive. There were a couple people impor... |