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| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? millercarbonThanks for your real-experience historic review...Still using CD only - Regarding power for the JBL L25s: IYHO - are we talking Sugden A21 (with the Wolze) or McIntosh MC2105 (with the Wolze or direct ) - or are we talking Stromberg Ca... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? millercarbonYour "bandwidth" and ability to relay that pleasantly continues to awe me ( and I did correctly mean awe, not augh!...)Thanks for your blurb here...BTW: in another forum - if I remember correctly - you said you had these once upon a ti... | |
| Recommendations on a big 3 way bookshelf - new or vintage - speakers, have stands 17" high Anyone: thoughts about JBL 4429s? or SONY M3s? | |
| ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION TO ANSWER ... millercarbonBy your explanation, you completely fail to grasp the question: it is not about the equipment, it is about your experiencial worth to others to expand their musical data. Now of course you can choose to not participate in 2 ways: the f... | |
| ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION TO ANSWER ... ...ALL GREAT REFERENCES (so far)... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? I always thought a lyric was a one-liner in a song, not the whole song as many above have interpreted it...Mine: Springsteen - Rosalita: " ... Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny... " | |
| Which is more important in transmitting the sound, the information... Thanks guys - I now realize what a foolish question it was... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp iealesSound improved greatly adding the preamp in: better defined bass, voice / vocals more clear and moved "vertically up" in soundstage; veil over sound lifted slightly; soundstage expanded in width and depth with most instruments more clearly d... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp DeKayThanks for your clarification - probably the route I will go will be tochange to 12au7sCan you suggest changing the EF86 to ? | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp ... Phew! - this is getting more complicated - may have bitten off more than I can really manage at the moment...Thanks to all for obviously educated and experienced info. | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp ... So just putting some rubber rings (O-Rings) picked up at a local hardware store would not be a good idea - or is it just again an experiment worth trying? | |
| Thoughts about buying a Bedini 100 atmosphereThe electronics rework sounds simple for a competant tech - but should it cost around $500? | |
| ... How to select tubes for line level preamp ... DeKay... thanks again Bud... Be Well, Best Wishes. Bill | |
| Thoughts about buying a Bedini 100 Since this is all new to me: What would be the most important replacements to do 1st?Can partial replacements be done? - can a tech evaluate what's still good and what should be replaced, instead of a blanket replacement?And I'm sure this seems li... | |
| ... How to select tubes for line level preamp ... DeKayThese came with the unit when I bought it...This is the info printed on the tubes: (2 of each)(In silver lettering): USA, above 12AX7A (in a thin silver oval) RCA (in gold lettering), else where on the tube ... |