john_l
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| Need help copying cds Maybe you guys can help with some questions:I have made backup recordings at 40x,32x, 24x, and s8x. The high speed recordings seem to sound fine. I use an athlon 1800 w/512mb, EAS 52x cd, tdk 40x cdr, 15K scsi hd, and Nero 5, windows 2000 pro, and... | |
| Need help : Single ended, Low power, SET amps.. I recently purchased a Terra Engineering Star 10. It uses el34, kt88, or 6550 tubes. It puts out ten watts and has a volume control. I have to admit, this little monster can bring across low level detail like I've never heard before. I generally p... | |
| Lester Young If you are an LP guy I recommend that you try to get him on LP rather than CD. I find those old jazz recordings sound much more alive on LP. I'm not a huge lester young collector, but I really like the 'Lady Day and Pres 1937-1941' | |
| Acoustic Zen Matrix..for me??? You win the '02 Fife award for devastating insults. I'm just trying to contribute based on what I have tried and what I have heard. I've own a very similar system to rwd and I've gone through over a dozen cables with it. I owned both of these cabl... | |
| Acoustic Zen Matrix..for me??? The idea behind that advice is that running balanced end to end will lower the noise floor overall. This is probably true with all components that are designed as balanced circuits from end to end. Most of the time I really don't hear that much of... | |
| Acoustic Zen Matrix..for me??? You might want to go with a balanced cable. I've tried both rca and xlr with my arc amp and found the xlr was noticably better. ARC recommends this as well. I use a vt100m2 and a bat vk-5i. I've also used/owned the arc ref1 and the ls5mkII with th... | |
| Shipping prices and buyers... I think when you ship the boxes via ups you should just assume that it will be dropped from 8 feet up onto a concrete floor. After this, another box weighing 100lbs will fall upon it. If you pack with this in mind you will be fine. Packaging from ... | |
| Speakers for A/R VT 100 Mk2/Aud.Illusions Pre If you like bass for rock and blues, I would go for a set of vandersteen 2ce signatures. These sacrifice detail, but give you wonderful instrument weight and coherence. I tried my vt100m2 with the van 3sigs and felt it didn't have the juice to dri... | |
| 1,500 tube preamp which one? It will cost a little more than 1500, but I would go for a bat vk-5i. Reference grade sound. Beware the unity gain button (you can easily disconnect this on the remote).There is one up for auction right now. | |
| 6550C vs KT88 So sorry to hear this. I know quite a few people, myself included, who run them without any problems. In fact a sales manager at ARC told me they had considered putting svetlana kt88's in as oem equipment. Did you turn down the bias setting for th... | |
| Is Sony SCD-1 still worth to possess? I heard it in my home - Dan brought it over. I only heard it side by side with my stock SCD-1. His tube stage XA77ES was much much better than my stock scd-1. No comparison really. I can't really say if the kern scd-1 was better or worse than the ... | |
| Keep my XA7ES, or get a DVP-S9000ES for CD play? I have not heard them side by side. I did own the xa7es for 2 years, and a good friend with a similar system had the 9000. I felt that the xa7es had a better sound. It's output stage just seemed to be much cleaner and the imaging a little better. ... | |
| 6550C vs KT88 Carl ? | |
| Is Sony SCD-1 still worth to possess? Richard Kern can be found at www.audiomod.comDan Wright is at www.modwright.com.Both guys do audiocom (an english company that makes the upgrades) installs, and some additional specialty stuff. I've met both of these guys and had both of their pla... | |
| 6550C vs KT88 It is safe to substitute the kt88 for the 6550. You just have to make sure you have the tubes appropriately matched for a vt100 (or whatever arc you are using). I have called arc about this very question, and they said kt88's are ok. I personally ... |