jameswei
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| VPI table owners, help please. I have a Graham arm mounted on a VPI table, and I use Graham's IC-50 one meter silver cable. It's a mini-DIN at the arm to RCA's at the phono preamp end. I had a little bit of RF noise once, which I dealt with using AudioQuest "RF Stoppers." This ... | |
| Good speakers less efficient? Not being a speaker designer, I have a fairly crude impression of how crossovers and drivers are used. My impression is that drivers function naturally over characteristic frequency bands, e.g., woofers only go up so far and start to drop off belo... | |
| Good speakers less efficient? There are good speakers that are also efficient. While "good" is often quite subjective, some speakers that have been praised by some audiophiles that are also efficient include the Klipschorn, Avantgarde Duo, and Wilson Audio WATT/Puppy.The low i... | |
| Thiel 3.6's vs. Vandersteen 3 sigs The Thiel 3.6 bass goes pretty deep, but it is very well-controlled, such that you may feel it comes across somewhat lean, especially after the Vandy 2CEs. The mids and highs are good given that used speakers have been broken in. The highs are not... | |
| Wilson WP 6 vs 7 for home theater I'm running two subwoofers with my primary music system/home theater, which has WP6s for mains. The subs really do the job when it comes to home theater low frequency effects. While I have never had the WP7s in my system, I am hard pressed to imag... | |
| My VCR will not display on my TV using s-video. No disrespect for your tech, but unless you personally saw him use your s-video cable successfuly, I would try another s-video cable -- cheap from Radio Shack. | |
| Sexiest Pop Song Ever? Look of Love, by Claudia Longet. | |
| passive preamp matching Keroo1099,Sorry, I'm not personally familiar with the equipment you mentioned. Jsadurni's post is a pretty complete discussion of the key issues. Perhaps someone else might be able to comment on the specific gear you're asking about. | |
| passive preamp matching I know you are looking for more technical information, but this recent thread at least addresses your first request.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1162669482&openfrom&1&4#1 | |
| First song to "Blow You Away"... Two more that I've really felt: Santana's Evil Ways and Steely Dan's Do It Again (my personal theme song for two decades). | |
| Two Subs Vs. One I prefer two subs. But with subs, wave effects in the room are always a concern.With one sub, I had to be careful with room nodes and resonances. Proper location of the sub would avoid nodes and resonances, at least the major ones. Also, I discove... | |
| First song to "Blow You Away"... Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones and Light My Fire by the Doors. | |
| Aleph 3 amp for Theta Miles The Theta Miles uses an analog volume control, which should preserve your signal information versus a digital control. It could work quite well playing directly into your Aleph 3. I currently have a Mark Levinson 390s CD player with analog volume ... | |
| How many pair of speakers do you own? To answer your second question, none of your suggested answers applies.In my case, (1) when I upgrade, I don't get rid of the old equipment -- they usually just get reallocated to other rooms; and (2) I think it's nice to be able to listen to good... | |
| Steely Dan covers? The Philippe Saisse Trio has a smooth jazzy cover of Do It Again out on their new album, Body and Soul Sessions. I like all the cuts on this disc, and they seem to be getting a fair bit of airplay. |