jasonbourne71
Responses from jasonbourne71
| About Koetsu Rosewood The OP should get that SAEC arm set up so he can use low compliance mc cartridges. | |
| For Those Who Are Unaware of The Cable Company The hills are alive with the Sound of Wire! | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns There are probably some Altec 19's available online somewhere. Why not just buy a pair? They are not really that large - about the size of my Speaker Lab Seven's - which have midrange and tweeter horns plus 12" woofers. | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood How many here are going to spend $17K on a phono stage? I don't see many hands going up. Even a $160 Schiit Mani 2 will show off the Koetsu's positive attributes! | |
| KOESTSU IS BACK KOETSU! | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood I recommend that you test the Koetsu using the Shure Test Record to see how it performs on various groove modulations. For transducers like cartridges and speakers objective tests should be part of the evaluation process. | |
| Tune of the Day @jpwarren58 That’s Nils Lofgren! | |
| Aleph 3 safe to operate? Keep the Stasis 3 for the bass. | |
| Aleph 3 safe to operate? Get a variac and slowly ramp up the AC voltage over a day. Then use a multimeter to check the DC voltage on each speaker outputs. If the DC voltage is low - several millivolts then try a pair of speakers. | |
| Is my Dynaco Stereo 400 worth repairing for resale? Your Dynaco 400 might not need any immediate work. Put it on a variac to reform the power supply caps. Then use a multi-meter to check the DC voltage on the two speaker outputs. If those show only a few millivolts of DC try the amp with a pair of ... | |
| Anyone else constantly curious about amps? All competently designed amps of low noise, low distortion and low output impedance will sound indistinguishable. Tube amps with their high output impedance are excluded. They will track a speaker's impedance curve and have a non-flat response. | |
| Is my Dynaco Stereo 400 worth repairing for resale? @curiousjim : Little known fact is that James Bongiorno joined Rectilinear to work on the model X speaker. Later he joined Spread Spectrum Technologies. | |
| Is my Dynaco Stereo 400 worth repairing for resale? @buellrider97 : I have an original owner pair of 60 watt mono SS amps from South West Technical Products. Designed by James Bongiorno - full complimentary symmetrical circuit using the then-new PNP output transistors. Before that SS amps were limi... | |
| Is my Dynaco Stereo 400 worth repairing for resale? Designed by James Bongiorno who worked for SAE, Southwest Technical Products, GAS, Sumo and Rectilinear. | |
| Why Does Expensive Gear Seems To Sound Better? Love those black faceplates with the glowing blue meters! |