kana813
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| Live DSD recording at Stereophile Show And who cares about owning SACDs of Ecstasy In Numbers and the Kevin Jones Band? Recording groups like this, is why SACD is going no where. | |
| Cable long question Audioengr-"The results indicate that speaker cables should never be shorter than IC's."My results using balanced ICs which are longer than the speaker cables indicate this is not an empirical rule. | |
| Vote for the Best Preamp: Audion, Jadis, ARC or CJ Look for a used Sonic Frontiers Line 2 or 3 and go with balanced cables between the preamp & amp. | |
| Digital Amps? Marketing Hype? Jlamb- FYI- the digital input on the Spectron amp isn't avaialble yet. Should be soon.Performance using the balanced analog input is outstanding. | |
| Anything beat dh labs t-14 for the money...... Acouple of months ago, a local HT dealer ask me to help him select the best speaker wire in the $5./foot range. He looking for a good sounding bulk cable to use in his HT installations. We try a niumber of different cables including the T-14 and A... | |
| upgrade tube for SF line 2 As Lafish points out, if you are using single eneded RCA outputs the bias trimpot position doesn't matter, but for XLR balanced outputs you should adjust the bias after replacing any of the tubes. The easiest way is as follows:1. Disconnect cable ... | |
| need preamp advice to mate with gamut d 200 The Gamut sounds it's best with a balanced preamp.Lower noise, more detail and more dynamic.Look for a balanced preamp or wait for Gamut's new D2. | |
| Who are the Jazz Cats on Audiogon? Yes-on the Jazz, no on the cats. Cats should never be allow in a serious music room. Theylike to lay on power amps and then the room smells like pussy.I try to buy at least one new Jazz release per week (this week- Lalo Schirin's "Ins and Outs and... | |
| Harvey Rosenberg: Did he or didn't he...... I also had the pleasure of visiting the Tube God's headquarters. Puchased one of his first preamps. Sounded very good with the Futterman OTLs and Quad 63 I was using.No one was more passionate about audio than Harvey. | |
| SFL-2 Bias Question...Helllp As Newbee points out, if you are using RCA connection the trimpot position doesn't matter, but for XLR the easiest way is as follows:1. Disconnect cable from preamp to power amp.2. With the preamp warmed up for 20 minutes, play a 1 kHz sine wave f... | |
| need help with impedance on SF power 2 Waip7- I also have a SF Line 2, running a single-ended/RCAsource in and balanced XLR out to the amp is perfectlyfine.A volume level between 60-70 for loud normal playbackis also fine. I normally listen between 55-65, but my amp'sinput sensitivity ... | |
| Best Power Cord for the Audio Magic Stealth Warrenh- no anger involved here. I just think it's ridiculous to spend $1700. or $2700. as you did on an power conditioner and then have to upgrade the power cord to get it to perform properly. If you have AC power problems, the first thing you sh... | |
| Best Power Cord for the Audio Magic Stealth The best PC for the Magic box, is one that bypasses itand connects your system directly to a wall outleton a dedicated 20 amp circuit with good in the wallwiring and grounding. | |
| need help with impedance on SF power 2 You are very luckly to get an SE. Using the 8 ohm tap will not shorten tube life.Just make sure the tube bias is set correctly, which is very easy to do on SF amps.If you decide you don't like the amp, please contact me. | |
| The Fastest most musical amp Go to http://www.spectronav.com/index.htm.They have what you're looking for. |