jeff_jones
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| There Ought To Be A Law, Or At Least A Rule Small or large, a business needs to either provide good product support (at high end audio pricing it should be excellent support, imho)or else be willing to take the hit.Have three components from small firms, manufacturer support from two of the... | |
| Tube rolling suggestions FWIW. I got more satisfaction out of fiddling with interconnects between my Zeus and pre-amp than I did out of tube swapping. As the 12ax7's are long lived, cost of replacing your favorite NOS is no big deal I reckon, but I liked the idea of findi... | |
| Colorizing The Sound Sometimes I think 75% of retail sales were created when they took our tone controls away. Now you get the same result (a tone that suits your preferences) the hard way. If you listen to enough components and spend enough time matching things toget... | |
| Sound Insulation- how much can it help? Headphones. | |
| Can you have a huge 3D soundstage in a small room? I don't think you will ever get there in a 13' deep room. | |
| Efficency- Low vs. Hi? Dave123etc. - I'm not reccomending tubes per se. I've got similar musical tastes to yours and also low efficiency speakers. Tubes were part of the answer for me, but a lot of folks would like solid state just as well or better and would be able to... | |
| Top 5 Best audiophile tracks to test equipment The "O Brother where art thou" movie soundtrack cd is handy for its wide the range of very different tracks that give you a feel for different things. If I have to pick a particular test track it is maybe "Down to the river to pray". While you've ... | |
| Efficency- Low vs. Hi? You should be less prone to audible grunge from some of the low level electrical noise sources, and this can save bucks on noise reducing / isolating gadgets and whatzits. Also if you go tubes all those big glowing bulbs look cool.Else, besides wh... | |
| Need some juice --- High power amps FWIW, for my 85db / 4 ohm / large room / blues & rock, I went with big tubes. If you prefer solid state, great, but ASL and Rogue and one or two others have got significant tube wattage at a fair price as an option if that is also of interest. | |
| Transport to replace Arcam FMJ-23T I'm thinking that your arcam uses a very highly rated sony drive. It might be hard to hear an improvement with any replacement (beware, this is a biased opinion as I'm of the bits-iz-bits persuasion). | |
| Upgrade my Turntable???? A very nice upgrade IMHO is the aries 2 platter so you can get the record hold down ring. Once you get used to the needle actually riding on a flat surface it is pretty addictive and you wonder why it took so long for people to come up with it. Yo... | |
| Passive/Active preamps: pros and cons.... I think the previous response has it nailed. One option though, when faced with the same question I picked up the channel island $250 list passive and gave it a try. If you don't like it you shouldn't lose much on resale. I found it a quality comp... | |
| what is a ground loop? Jeffreybehr - Don't fire your electrician yet. Even with great house wiring you can still get induced ground current inside your equipment and have ground loop problems. E.G., I think Jim Hagerman might have some info about a star ground configura... | |
| Top "covers" Need help, who did the Jazz version of Freebird?Heard it on national public radio one day, it was part of a story about a guy that used to travel about yelling "Free Bird" at just the opportune moment during a show. It was killer, imagination, spo... | |
| Is the JPS DIGITAL cable as good on CD as reviewed Sean, good point. Was thinking about the "JPS Digital" 120v power cord. |