jafox
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| Worst Name for A Piece of Equipment My favorite is EAR | |
| How to tame the midrange??? Hi Baffled, I only mentioned those tube line stages as I am familiar with their performance. Another tube line stage that is getting a lot of praise is the Modwright SWL9.0 which sells new in the $2k range. Check out this A'gon Modwright thread.Th... | |
| First Sound vs Aesthetix Tvad: That is exactly why I own the Callisto Sig. And with a careful change of her tubes, she quiets down. | |
| BAT vs Cary "Cary favors the coherent/musical camp whereas the BAT is the detail/definition camp."Hah? He said BAT, not CAT! Other than a softening of the upper frequencies, the 31SE (I owned one for 2 years) is very tonally coherent and musical in its portra... | |
| How to tame the midrange??? Shadorne states: "Actually an EQ might be the cheapest and most flexible solution."Who knows, speaker placement might do the trick and this is free.....and no corruption of the signal. I would not be so quick to throw in a bandaid into the electro... | |
| Cable auditions - Hard Work? Hello Yuri - congratulations on finding a cable that works well for you. | |
| How to tame the midrange??? An equalizer? That's a drastic solution. I would only consider this if you're willing to kiss off resolution and collapse the soundstage. There is so much to address in this system: cables, room acoustics and speaker placement that could very well... | |
| VAC Ren II, VAC Phi, or ARC Ref 3? I applaud Jonathan Valin for taking a systems approach to listening and comparing with other "systems" but the end result is just that: one system vs. the other. Unfortunately, this makes it tough if not impossible to quantify how one line stage s... | |
| How to tame the midrange??? Baffled: You have so many things to try along the way. And I suspect you will discover huge refinements as you seek to determine the original problem with the midrange anomolies. Rather than guess with so many changes, what I would suggest you do ... | |
| Is there a difference in balanced cables?? I have written extensively here the last several years on my experiences with various XLR cables from Cardas, SilverAudio, Audioquest, Transparent, NBS, Kubala-Sosna, etc. There has been a huge difference with each of these along the way of contin... | |
| Budget Amp for Avalon Eidolon Congratulations Eavr11. Please report back with how everything has turned out. And did you ever decide on a line stage? Sounds like the Aesthetix Callisto might work here? 8-)As you know I am a huge fan of the CAT amps. And before I bought the Sou... | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? Audphile1: No problem....your comment was right on. I just wanted to assure you that with a very light touch with the eraser end of a pencil, I found the two culprits immediately. I can now crank up the music and not hear the one tube in the Io si... | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? Yes indeed, audphile. That is not my std practice but I had two tubes that were ringing like crazy with just loud music so just a light tap was all it took.....nothing crazy! | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? Perfectionist: A few issues to answer your question as to why I tried this other tube ring instead of the Herbie. The Io and Callisto each with one PS totals a whopping 40 tubes. Looking at the cost of the Herbie rings, that's a lot of pizzas. The... | |
| Review: Aesthetix Calypso Line Stage Tube preamp No No No.....JD must not become a magazine contributor. And he's way too brutally honest to survive long in that world anyway. And besides that, he's all mine I tell you, he's all mine! If there was ever one person who has influenced me so much an... |