jameswei
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| Pass Labs X-1000 monoblocks According to Pass Labs, the X600s are class A operation up to 100 watts continuous and 200 watts peak, going class AB the rest of the way up to 600 watts. The X1000s are class A up to 90 watts continuous, 180 watts peak, and class AB to 1000 watts... | |
| WAF Alert: McCormack DNA .5 on Vandersteen 2W sub? I would have two concerns: vibration and magnetic field interaction. Put your hand on the sub and on the McCormack during a loud bass passage. If you feel significant vibration, that's not good. Most 'philes would agree vibration of an amplifier i... | |
| Tice power conditioner I really like Tice power conditioners, too. I was sad to see them fold.I don't know why they went out of business but I can guess. The timing of their shuttering would suggest they lost customers to then-new competitors. Specifically, PS Audio fir... | |
| Pass Aleph P Feeding two amplifiers? I would think there should be no problem.I used an Aleph P to drive a pair of Bryston 7B STs via the balanced outputs while connecting the single ended outputs to an equalizer which was fed into the single ended inputs on the Brystons. (This let m... | |
| CD Cases / Furniture Recommendations? The Boltz is nice. It's got a clear coat finish that makes it look better in person than in the ad photos. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit with my decor (WAF), so I've stuck with black CD tower spinners.As my disc collection has grown, I've traded u... | |
| Few problems on "new" tt I don't know this turntable, but I have some comments from general principles.I would set the stylus pressure to two grams, just as a starting point. You could try varying it up and down by half a gram in quarter gram incrememts to see if a differ... | |
| What is "west coast sound" Bigtee got it right. Jrd351, too. The market was dominated by JBL (made on the West Coast) and AR (made in New England). Regional stereotypes (sorry) were reinforced by the conservative (flat, but a little compressed) sound of AR versus the more c... | |
| Narrow tuner. The only tuner I'm aware of that narrow is the Teac T-H300, 8 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 12 inches. It lists for $200, but Amazon can find it for about $100. I don't know how it sounds, but I'm skeptical that it's more than mid-fi at best. On the other hand, y... | |
| How to hook up a subwoofer with an integrated amp? Sorry about the mistake with the Cary. I read a review of the 303/200, and it seemed to have a volume control.In this case, I would prefer using the parallel speaker wire to the sub. If you use a splitter placed at the output of the Cary (or the i... | |
| How to hook up a subwoofer with an integrated amp? It depends on the inputs accepted by your sub. I assume your sub will have separate inputs for the left and right channels, and it will somehow combine the signals internally into a mono bass (sound) output.The Avatar appears not to have a line le... | |
| Sumiko SHO and analog-to-digital transfer The following link should take you to a thread on Audiogon that identifies the output of the SHO as 2.4 mV.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1041440246&openfrom&1&4#1As TWL points out on that thread, 2.4 mV is high for ... | |
| TT setup woes I'm not sure whether improperly set anti-skating can cause significant permanent damage to records unless they are played repeatedly. Your stylus pressure of 1.9 grams seems quite standard. I have seen improperly (anti-skate) compensated styli ski... | |
| Turntable HUM I assume you are using an SDS power conditioner. The old VPI PLC generated gobs of hum. The only way to remediate it was to place it physically far away from the turntable, preamps, and phono cables.Could your rig be close to a high voltage power ... | |
| need help, looking for tube cd player..... The Ah! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 CD player is a good sounding unit with two 6922 tubes. It is modified from a Marantz unit. It costs $699. With OEM tweaks including upgraded AC cord, feet, mat, and tube dampers, it goes for $847. An upgrade with 24/192 ups... | |
| Classe CAM 350 discontinued....why? The following thread offers some explanation:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1078895913&read&keyw&zzclasse=b&wBrave new world. |