immatthewj
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| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Iamatthewj.i just put it on normal phase. @jayctoy , here's my question about that: The manual explains that the USA system is pin 2 is cold, pin 3 is hot; versus the European system which is pin 2 hot, pin 3 cold; on both systems pin 1 is gro... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! @jayctoy , how do you have your phase switch on your SA10 set? Do you set it to "Inverted" or to "Normal"? The instructions in the manual have me a bit confused on that subject. | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! @stereo-one , my SA 10 was a "factory refurb" from MD, so I really do not know what its previous history was prior to me buying it. In other words, it may have already experienced its breakin period. What struck me first and foremost was that wi... | |
| Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp But there should be at least a handful of stores in the area available for demos. It looks like Crutchfield carries a couple of them, and I think they do have a 60 day audition period. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? . . . or if your friend's system was not up to your standards, instead of following my previous suggestion, you could simply kick the dogcrap out of the woofers of his full range speakers and then tell him, "Look, dude, I just did you a favor--thi... | |
| Looking for a CD Player I took the SACD plunge a few years ago with the Maranzt SA10 (which I know is more than you said you wanted to spend) and I found that generally I love the sound of a good SACD more than I love the sound of the average red book. I have also found... | |
| Help Select an True Bookshelf Speaker My B&W 805 Matrixes are front ported. I do not know if the 805 Diamonds are still front ported. | |
| Reliability - what’s your experience been? You lost me with that one, @cdc . | |
| Reliability - what’s your experience been? @immatthewj From memory the V12R was rated at 100w /channel. Yes, a lot of tubes, but a very cute looking amp in its deep red finish... @rooze , the stereo version of the V12 (at least my V12 I) is rated at 50 wpc in triode mode and 100 wpc in ... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? What I do not do is start a thread asking what I should do or say about a scenario that is either hypothetical or has already happened. Epic trolling though. @macg19 + 10! | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? I’ve been giving this an excruciating amount of thought over the past few days, and what I’ve come up with is this: if I thought I could take him, I’d say, "C’mmon, dude; let’s get it on right here in your pathetic listening room, and after I bea... | |
| Pop album that has stood the test of time . . . I’d probably have to concede that (by The Rutles) Rutle Sole and Shabby Road and Tragical History Tour and Sgt Rutlles Only Darts Club Band have also withstood the test of time quite well. | |
| Reliability - what’s your experience been? My worst experience was lending a local audio club member a pair of beautiful Cary Audio V12R @rooze , That was a lot of EL34s there! Was that then rated as putting out twice the wpc of the conventional V12? owned at least 7 Cary amps/pream... | |
| My new B Stock speakers @bassbuyer , I cannot find any visible defects at all on my B-stocks, but with that typed, my eyesight is horrible and getting worse every day. I did note that the serial numbers were way apart from each other, but I am pretty sure that somewhere... | |
| Pop album that has stood the test of time There are a couple of true stand outs by The Rutles: A Hard days Rut and who can ever forget Hey Dude. |