johnnantais
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II D'Oh! Pleased to meet you Bill, gotta stay on top of Internet-ese.On the speaker front the Klispch Cornwalls become my Reference Speaker, not because they're better than the big EVs, but because they simply interact with my room better (no horn co... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi TIA: the answer to the first question is how much is it worth to you? Considering that just sitting on bricks with a Rega stuck in the hole the Lenco easily bested a fully-tricked-out Linn LP12, and with not much more than that a VPI TNT (as re... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Lew, yep, you'll have to dismantle the thing to get at the nether end of the idler wheel arm, but I am planning on going down to do a whole slew of Lenco updates later in the fall, you might wait.Moving my Cornwalls in tonight, along with my fu... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Lew and Mario, back from the Great White North, the scenery on the way up was incredible. Now I can let the cat out of the bag, it was to deliver a Lenco, which conquered (in a system consisting of Joule Electra preamp, Sonic Frontiers phono st... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi all, really busy right now so consider this a guerilla hit and then I have to run. Be back later to elaborate. Yep, that 5751 makes a world of difference, in the EAR 834P anyway. Considered a lower-noise tube than the 12AX7 even the reduced gai... | |
| vinyl-only setups I don't know the specs, but I drove many amplifiers using the EAR as a stand-alone unit, once I rolled the right tubes in it sounded very dynamic and exciting. Would very likely be a considerable step up over the X-LPS too, it's dead quiet and doe... | |
| vinyl-only setups The EAR 834P comes with a volume control, and sounds excellent. | |
| Belt stretch This is a shining example of what I was talking about in one of my earlier threads, "The High end and Glubglub". Lifted from a discussions in logical argument and philosophy:"What he (the skeptic) wants it is logically impossible to supply. But do... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Lew, just taking a break from building shelving and thought I'd take a look. From the grapevine I've heard in fact the precise opposite concerning the AMT4's (these are the "smallest" stand-mounters) woofer/tweeter integration, and this is how ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike, sorry for the delay, sill moving and adjusting. No, Spectral has embraced the V-fet in their latest designs, (Yamaha had also, and their V-fet designs, B-1 and A-1 I believe, were considered the best they ever made), but won't fix Sony de... | |
| Belt stretch My ears started ringing and I knew I was being called :-)! Hi Rccc, I'm not here to flame you, been there myself, so let's stick to facts and logic. I'm the fellow who has historically made an issue on this forum and some others on the issue of st... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi all, for those who did track down certain vintage Sony pieces on my recommendations and reports, good news: I received my now perfectly-silent Sony 2000F back from the technician (who again stayed for some tunes via the Giant Direct Coupled Gla... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike, "voltage divider" huh? We're already into problems ;-). Sorry, I pour most of my energies into understanding and playing with turntables, tonearms, cartridges and phono stages, though I have assembled some tube amp kits and done my share ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II OK, the EAR 834P DOES do magic! I switched the V3 tube to a GE 5751, and the other two to Sovtek 12AX7s, and Bingo-Presto! tons of PRaT, gestalt, propulsion and excitement, all the good stuff an idler-wheel drive can dish out, putting the EAR in t... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II And again Mike, I've read that 5751s do wonders for the EAR, and that a shielded AC cable makes an difference too. Have you tried these simple things? Wouldn't you know it, my PV-8 has a pair of GE 5751's, and I'll resort to the Sovtek 12AX7 to br... |