jallen
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| Jay Gordon Holt This is a great loss to the audiophile/multichannel community, and I for one have missed his opinions since he stopped reviewing. His candid, honest and accurate observations have been a source of inspiration and guidance for me since I first pick... | |
| LETS COMPARE TUBE AND SS AMPS. TECHNICAL First off, power is only important if you need it. Meaning, that if you are using speakers with a sensitivity of 105db, you could run them with a transisitor table top radio. You would only need about 500 milliwatts, half of a watt. But if you hav... | |
| How any "wall pluggers" are out there? Since you are on the subject of power cords, here is a little more fuel for whatever fire you are burning. I do not have any upgraded power cords. I use Belden, Carol, or good old 20amp cords, terminated with Marinco or Hubbel ends. That is exotic... | |
| How any "wall pluggers" are out there? I prefer the term techno-weenie, to denote one who dedicates more time to equipment, tweaks, cords, wire etc. than listening to music. You know who you are, the ones with more time on test/demo discs than music. Those who have three songs they lis... | |
| question about installation of 20 amp wall plug Stick a volt meter inthere and measure your voltage and see if the voltage is correct. Remember, Black-Hot, White Neutral, Ground Green, Ground the bottom hole, neutral, the wide slot. Amp sounds like it had one foot in the audio casket, the other... | |
| Are you in the over 30 K club?? 30K?... is this the price paid or the retail price of the gear if retail price is paid to replace it??? I try for the 50% of retail on purchases due to the rapid decline in value once gear is used. Sometimes I pay more or retail if needed, but the... | |
| Bad preamp choice? Rest assured, CJ doesn't make junk, and the ears there are reliable and settle for musicality only. Integrating it into the system with proper amplification and wires will be more important as will be speaker placement. Stress about the significan... | |
| Maggies with no Sub: Fantastic surprise I have evaluated the the 3.6 with either the passive Xover and active with the XM44 Marchand and James 1500 sub crossed over at 80Hz, and the main differences will be on the type of music listen to. If you like string quartets, vocals, etc., forge... | |
| Can we objectively rate speaker cables? Little if anything in audio related to cables can be objectively rated. What is good in one system/combination with "X" is horrible in "Y" and thus cannot be independently analyzed except for measuring capacitance, resistance, inductance, etc. Thu... | |
| Need advice on amp to drive Vandersteen 2Cs I had the 2C for 6 years and the Quicksilver silver monos, M80 or M60 were all magic on them. For SS, the B&K, Muse 100 were also good, but the tubes were magic....I even liked the ARC D300 or D240. Jallen | |
| Amp for Aerial 10T My 10T's sounded good with the ARC D300, and the Quicksilver Silver 90's. | |
| Quick silver M100 best tubes I have the Silver monos, output is over 112wpc from 2 output tubes. Sonically I like the JJ KT88's. There has been some concern with others about reliability so this may be an issue. You can't go wrong with Winged "c" Russian tubes. I tried them a... | |
| wonder dynamicaps any good ? For speakers I like the Mundorf caps. The Solen's are good budget caps, but you can do better. The best are the Dueland, but a bit pricey. Look some of the capacitor comparisons and get a little info there. Jallen | |
| Quicksilver amp owners To get the Quickies to stand up and bark, I put in some good caps, polystyrene to be exact, upgraded the power cord over the cheap lamp cord which was rotting away, and they do a great job on bass now. The misperception is that the bass is loose. ... | |
| Has Anyone Criticized The Choice Of Your Cables? Unfortunately, there are those aspiring audiophiles (and I use the term lightly) who do not hesitate to demonstrate their ignorance by criticizing ones cables before hearing them, or the system in any other configuration. If lamp cord sounds good,... |