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| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? You Calypso folks are quite the helpful friendly bunch.Last week I ordered up a bunch of these. I will report my findings in the Io and Callisto as I have to believe the improvements (if any) should be similar. | |
| Can anyone suggest a good 2-channel amp for $1500 Counterpoint Counterpoint Counterpoint.....SA20/220 and NPS series. This is an awesome value. Also the McCormack DNA1 and even the DNA 225 is at this price from time to time. | |
| Review: Aesthetix Calypso Line Stage Tube preamp Aaudiophile: Thanks for your email today. I believe the Calypso has always had 88 settings. For some people, this may still not be enough. But my comment above was that even with the CALLISTO having only 45 steps, this works well for me. Finer inc... | |
| Blown 6550 tubes and resistors in ARC VT 200 Yes, this seems to have been ARC's methodology to use power resistors as fuses for the VT series amps. I went through this with the VT130 a few times and after the second time, I bought a dozen resistors so I would be ready when the next power tub... | |
| WHICH ARC LINESTAGE TO REPLACE LS-15? "By the way, I think the general consensus is that the LS-5 Mk II is better than Mk III?""Better" is always a tough term here as it provides little if any objective value.There is one A'gon member (name escapes me) who prefers the II. But myself a... | |
| Balanced Pre for Bi Amping Recommendations Please Quincy: No CJ gear has balanced or XLR inputs or outputs.Zimmerma: Perhaps biamping will not be done in the context of having an active crossover between the preamp and amps but rather simply to drive the individual halves of the speaker drivers b... | |
| OK WILSON OWNERS. HERE IS YOUR CHALLENGE Hmmm, I don't see this thread as a sign of arrogance at all. It sounds like a fair offer to hear a direct comparison of any two speakers (but why only Wilson?) with another local audiophile. I have done similar listening sessions with local audiop... | |
| Parasound JC-1 amps. Preamp advice?? From my experience, the preamp is the make or break component when it comes to bringing on a 3-dimensional musical presentation. If this is what you seek, a tube model is a must. Unfortunately, many tube preamps fail miserably here as well. Since ... | |
| Balanced Pre for Bi Amping Recommendations Please One thing to keep in mind: just because a unit has XLR outputs does not mean that the product itself is truly balanced.If you need two sets of truly balanced outputs, the BAT 3 or VK3 series will not work as they only have one set of balanced outp... | |
| WHICH ARC LINESTAGE TO REPLACE LS-15? A few years ago, I sold my LS5 II to an A'gon member in the UK. Initially he investigated having such a unit modified through ARC but ARC told him he had to go through the UK distributor for such rework. The resultant cost was approaching a ridicu... | |
| upgrde to maggie 3.6 or i.6 with better amplifier Why the need for the 3.6? Why not consider the Maggie 3.3 or 3.5? For just a couple hundred $$ more than the 1.6 on the used market, these are magnitudes beyond the 1.6 in the context of frequency extreme extension, 3-dimensionality and midrange t... | |
| WHICH ARC LINESTAGE TO REPLACE LS-15? The LS16 is not going to do much over what you have right now.I have said so much on this site on the LS5 so I will simply say that with the VT130 for which I also owned and ran with, the LS5 was an awesome match....especially with the VT130 loade... | |
| Advice on pricing old Audio Research pieces BB may work for some people here, but I am with Lolo on this one - there's plenty to learn from what happens on A'gon alone .... and then ebay would be a worthy secondary choice. It all comes down to the condition and the time of year and this sim... | |
| DartZeel phono section... Great great post from Mike.I too have the Io and fully agree with Mike on the issues of the Io's higher noise floor. Some of the treble detail deep in the music is a bit lost compared to some of the more highly resolving phono stages out there. Bu... |