jallen
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| Passive preamp vs. powered All passive models I have listened to have been a disappointment ultimately. The Adcom is clean, but the stage is so much smaller, and flat, the Creek is almost as clean, but also small sounding, but both very clean and uncolored, and others have ... | |
| Looking for New Speakers - Suggestions For loud, I like the Legacy Whisper with Tube gear. I own Maggie 3.6 which will not go quite as loud, but has all its own attributes. I would not be using maggies for bombs and gunshots, but for music DVD's they would be great. I like mine, have n... | |
| Deuvel or MBL The 121 need more power than you may think. Feed them at least 400wpc into 4ohms. The Duevel need less, but omni's only work well in a larger room as was mentioned before. In a small room, I would be looking at a good monitor speaker. I thought th... | |
| Bi-Amp Crossover Advice I have the 3.6 and have tried them in biamp, stero, monoblocks, and they always sound musical. I use the Marchand XM44 and it is splendid, the XM26 is way too dark and veiled in comparison. The XM44 gets out of the way. I think you should consider... | |
| xlr vs rca Balanced is not better because it is "balanced" but beecause so many rca's are really bad conncetion wise. Balanced sounds worse to me in many cases, but I prefer the sound of XLR's to RCA's. A contradiction??? No, I use pin 1 gnd, and pin 2 +, an... | |
| Elusive Tube-Amp Hum Easy, wiggle every interconnect at the junction and every tube, possibly a bad socket, cold solder joint, or cold solder joint in the IC. Every problem has a solution.... | |
| Silver Cables use the Quicksilver silver cables, and use JJKT88 tubes. The v4 is a bit on the dark side and this will help. Also use Quiciksilver silver interconnects as well. I had a pair of these in the past. You wil need a very alive preamp to get the most o... | |
| Looking for a good subwoofer I have only found the James and JL Audio to deliver for music. Jallen | |
| interested in exploring classical Start out in the baroque period, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, etc., go to the classical period, then to the romantic and modern periods and find what you like first, then you will grow into the rest on some level. This is the beginning of a great advent... | |
| Classic McIntosh tube amp or new other brand Can't go wrong with Quicksilver or MAC. jallen | |
| Need advice on a good Phono preamp Look at the Marchand in kit form or built which is said to be great. Also, the EAR 834 is a classic, but MC may be an issue. jallen | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced - What does it mean? Balanced circuits are needed when there is a noise problem. If using a preamp of suitable gain, running RCA shielded cable for 30ft. should be no problem. When Sheffield Lab did their recordings, they used a shielded coax cable to run from Wiley C... | |
| The Best Phono cable The Cardas Golden Reference is purely magical and seems to preserve all the analog texture and basically get out of the way and allow recordings to sound unique and different. This is my test for neutrality, recording contrasts. When they all soun... | |
| Subs with Maggies??????? I have the 3.6, and have used the james 10, 12, and 1500, all were an improvement to the maggie bass. I have a big room so if you have a smaller room, more important is to give the maggie enough horsepower, like a minimal amp would be the Bryston ... | |
| Amp damping factor? Too high of a damping and the bass is thin, lacking in authority, and not very musical. Too high is relative depending on the speakers it is matched to. My tube amp has a damping factor of about 11, and the bass on the Legacy Whisper is stunning, ... |