jafox
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| I need help choosing my next tube preamp. The LS5 MK III comes as 12 or 18db. I believe it is typically set in the factory as 12db. When I updated mine to 18db, I had to replace 8 resistors....it took about 1/2 hour of time. But if you want something more relaxed, the BAT models will do t... | |
| I need help choosing my next tube preamp. The tube compliment for some models above has been incorrectly stated. The BAT 30 and 31 use 6 6922 tubes while the 30SE and 31SE use a quad of 6H30 tubes. The Aesthetix Calypso uses a pair of 6922 (6DJ8 work too) and a pair of 12ax7. So if Audfil... | |
| Why doesn't Musical Fidelity offer balanced output Bob - I thought you had no comment. And please define for me reality.This thread relates to home consumer products and not recording studio products. What recording professionals may need and use in a studio is for the most part, not at all what I... | |
| BAT VK30SE OR HOVLAND HP-100 I have no experience with the Hovland but I would be very careful with the VK-30SE. This has a very rolled-off top end. The 31SE upgrade, which was $1100 back in 2002/2003, was a significant improvement in this regard to this unit. Harmonic overto... | |
| Why doesn't Musical Fidelity offer balanced output The value for the CMRR only exists if we do not bandaid the signal path to achieve complimentary phases from a signal that started out as single-ended. If much degradation is done to the signal to create these 2 phases, there is likely more to be ... | |
| Why doesn't Musical Fidelity offer balanced output I would disagree with Bob_reynolds in that it DOES matter if the unit is fully balanced or not. Why have pseudo balanced connections if the signal is to go through a bunch of bandaid phase-splitter and summing-amp stages for the sake of achieving ... | |
| Why doesn't Musical Fidelity offer balanced output One other note here: XLR outputs do not necessarily imply the product is truly balanced. | |
| Roger Waters remasters? Your observations are very different than my own. Roger Waters' recordings, as with the later Pink Floyd recordings when he was still with the band, are some of the very best if not THE best in the R&R industry. "Amused to Death" is about as g... | |
| Help-Genesis Digital Lens Bill - The opportunity to hear the modified Genesis to my stock Genesis will not happen. My attempts to email the seller appears to have not been a success. It looks there was an email tool and/or filtering problem where my incoming emails were li... | |
| Avantgarde Trio replacing Dunlavy SC-V? Here's the product I was referring to.John | |
| Avantgarde Trio replacing Dunlavy SC-V? I have the same bass node problems in my room (18x13) with SoundLab speakers. A change to electrostatics will not guarantee that your problem will go away. I have a huge peak (13db) at 30 hz and two smaller peaks (6-8db) at 110hz and 250 hz. All t... | |
| DIY Interconnects review Persistence indeed - you all need to witness this guy positioning a pair of speakers to the exact millimeter - persistence indeed. | |
| CAT JL-2 amp upgrade Thanks Johnny for the report here. Your evaluations of the CAT preamps and amps to the competition very much mirrors my reports elsewhere on A'gon. These amps are very special indeed.Your suggested DIY updates sound interesting but I would be wear... | |
| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? Frap - You nailed it with the rollercoaster effect on ARC's house sound changing from product generation to generation. This too never made any sense as I would have expected to hear refinements from one product to its successor. You had to skip o... | |
| Tubeguys:How much "tube sound" from tube players? As Tvad points out there's more than one sonic attribute that we tend to identify with tubes. One of these being a more warm midrange, i.e., greater emphasis in the lower mids to portray a richer sound from what we otherwise might identify as "neu... |