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| 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... | |
| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? Frap - My comments on the LS2 are directly in comparison to the LS5. After I sold the SP-10 in the Spring of 1995, I went on a quest to find a line stage to match with the ARC PH2 phono stage I had just bought. And I was sure the LS2 would be THAT... | |
| Tubeguys:How much "tube sound" from tube players? Newbee's comment, "It is probably far easier to get a SS preamp that is neutral and not subtractive, than it is to get a SS amp that will ever sound like a tube amp.", caught my attention.I have the CAT JL-3 mono tube amps. Each of these uses 16 6... | |
| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? The issue of "accuracy" comes in many ways. If we are talking about tonality, tonal coherency, and such, I would agree that the LS2 is more tonally coherent than the SP8 and SP-10 line stages. I owned the SP-10 and realized how compromised its lin... | |
| Tubeguys:How much "tube sound" from tube players? Oh well, here I go again bucking the system of many other posts. I have been running with tube DACs, phono stages, line stages and power amps for many years. If I had only one link in the chain that I could put tubes, this is an easy one: the line... | |
| Loud thump when I power on or off "It is worse when the volume is turned up more."A good practice is to always turn the volume control all the way down when powering up/down components as well as changing sources, dropping the arm down on an LP, etc. It is also good practice to po... |