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| Lead shots for speaker stand. Snooker, any particular reason for the #7? I should be receiving a Lead Baloon turntable stand this week and plan on "loading" it with lead shot. I've been wondering what size though. Thanks. | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 Doug, thanks for the cartridge advice. I need to stick a medium to high output right now. I'll eventually get the phono stage modified, but I just don't want to send my pre-amp back to Audible Illusions since they are notoriously slow. By the way,... | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 Doug...Just getting back to normal after Le Mans. Yeah, I did the whole 24 hours on Speedvision. Then, the movie afterwards. Crashed real good after that.I'm following you at every turn. Hope you're taking a good line ;- First my Shankelized GTWee... | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 P.S. Turns out that this is a MkIII with very low hours on it. In fact, unused for a long time since the stylis went South. Aside from a new belt, (just on general principle), is there anything else that should be done. Suspension and motor appear... | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 Thanks, guys. I did the deal yesterday. I'm on a tight cartridge budget for now. Too bad about the Benz Glider, as it was on my short list. The other budget cartridge I was considering, Grado Reference Sonata, is probably a no-go, too. A friend ha... | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 Re: SME arm and Oracle... meant "simpatico". "Sypatico" sounds like a cross between a mental illness and a skin disease ;-) | |
| Antique Sound Labs Headphone Amp Pete, good points and an interesting take. I hadn't considered portability and my initial thinking was to try and get a headphone set up that matched my main system as closely as possible. Being a tube junkie, I naturally zeroed in on tube headpho... | |
| Antique Sound Labs Headphone Amp Lornecherry, now you've gone and done it. I checked out the Stax and their new line of products has piqued my interest. Looks like they've made some significant imrpovements -- especially in the specs of the diaphram. Several amps, including tubed... | |
| Cd storage..what's an audiophile to do? Mgs, thanks for the tip...I didn't pay too much attention when I looked for my CD rack. Very nice stuff. Also a plus to be able to match the looks and materials for LP/LD and CD storage. Pricier, but still fairly priced. I guess that's to be expec... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I lived blissfully with Apogee Stages for 8 years. I only sold them because of a move to a much smaller room, Prior to selling I was considering adding sub/stands to create Mini-Grands. The previous post regarding service concerns is valid, but if... | |
| Cd storage..what's an audiophile to do? Agree about Boltz. Bought the CD 330 and just added the extesion to store 660 CD's. Nice contemporary quasi industrial look. Also, the *best* customer service I have ever experienced. My first purchase actually arrived the next day. Fully assemble... | |
| Antique Sound Labs Headphone Amp Sorry, meant "Lornecherry". | |
| Antique Sound Labs Headphone Amp Lonecherry, reflecting on my comment regarding esl headphones and tube headphone amps I seem to recall that Stax offered a choice of solid state or tubes with the Lambda Pro. Do you know if this is correct? By the way, maybe ts time for you to get... | |
| Tube selection I can relate to Albert's post regarding the low end capabilities of the Sovteks. I recently upgraded from a Modulus 3 to a 3a and have been listening with the Sovtek 6922's before dropping in my Siemens 6DJ8's. While they are not as smooth or clea... | |
| Antique Sound Labs Headphone Amp Bmoto... guess I'll add the Wheatfield to the list. My system is also tube based and I've been doing quite a bit of tube rolling during the past year or two. I need to maintain the tube vibe is whatever headphone amp I ultimately go with. I initia... |