jtgofish
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| Preamp Deal of the Century Opus and Marril,I think you should feel perfectly at ease making the statements you have.Your experiences are clearly not typical though.So either there is something unusual going on with your systems' synergy or you hear differently to most peopl... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Halogen lights[or their transformers?] in my house can cause hums.Fortunately I only have them in an adjoining room and can turn them off.Any number of experts wil tell you this should not happen but it does. | |
| Transparency: What speakers have it in spades? I am yet to hear a transparent speaker.They all have a sonic signature-even with very good stats you still hear the mylar.Perhaps some full range ribbons come closest but transparency is never going to be possible when a fabric/material is being u... | |
| Warmest speaker? Horses for courses really.Their is nothing wrong with warm sounding speakers if you have a bright or cold sounding room.If anything bright speakers will cause fatigue before warm sounding ones.The bextrene coned speakers of the 70s were warm sound... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt Creml, The A500 was reviewed in Hi Fi World December 2006.To quote-"Unlike hi fi amps the A500 suffers considerable crossover distortion even in the midband...whilst it measured 0.14% at 1 watt1kHz this figure rose to an unacceptable level of 1% a... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt The Hi Fi World magazine review showed that these amps do have unusually high distortion.Which is probably the main reason they said they were not really suited to serious hi fi use.This may or may not cause speaker damage but it is probably a goo... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century When people mention reliability they need to realise that no product is likely to have a perfect record.A recent discussion on another NG [aus hi fi] gave figures for Marantz amplifiers from the 1970s.Even the most reliable still had 0.5% failure ... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt Hi Fi world magazine reviewed these amps recently.They concluded they are excellent value PA type amps but did not measure or sound up to dedicated Hi Fi standards.If you want cheap amps that do sound fantastic you probably can't beat the Sonic Im... | |
| Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth" Mrtennis, My choice of preamp is the Supratek Cabernet 300b.It has the classic tube "gorgeousness".It is outside your budget however and the new Cabernets use different tubes I believe.Also the cheaper 300b tubes like the EH are not a patch on the... | |
| Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth" The differing opinions of Mrtennis and Audiofeil make for interesting reading.Audiofeil,I think you are being a bit harsh.Many people still want a tube preamp that has that classic tubey sound.Unfortunately this is typically delivered with a loss ... | |
| Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth" You can't beat a 300b for warmth.Especially the TJ meshplates.Look for preamps that use the 300b.I own a Supratek Cabernet that uses these tubes but there must be others. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Paulfobrecht, I think I got the last of the 300b Cabernets.I forgot to mention the speed of the Sauvignon.I used to use a Metaxas Marquis 2 preamp[SS] that was considered a reference point for speed[very short signal paths] but the Sauvignon was e... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Paulfolbrecht, I had chance to compare the Sauvignon and the Cabernet.I ended up buying the Cabernet 300b because I have been using Gainclone type power amps which sound superb but are a quite cold sounding.[pehaps just neutral] I really loved the... | |
| Options to replace Supratek Chennin Pre The Van den Hul carbon fibre interconnects will give a richer,fuller,bigger sound without having to change your preamp.Otherwise a Suptatek Cabernet with TJ 300b meshplate tubes will give you the least lean sound you can probably encounter. | |
| Speaker cone material pro's and con's The point is that there appears to be no correct sounding cone material.They all have their sonic signature and once you become aware of this it comes down to choosing the one which causes least offence rather than one which is "best".Cone/box spe... |