kevziek
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| Compare BAT Vk30 to Sonic Frontiers Line 2? BAT and SF owners? Where are you? | |
| Safe removal of tweeter grill on B&W 801 Series 2 Leave it alone. Besides risking damaging the cone, I understand that you can break a fragile plastic ring around the grill, and you won't be able to put the grill back on. | |
| Is their any way to keep voltage steady? Monster Cable makes a voltage regulator that retails for $1500. I'm not sure, but I think the PS Powerplant, which is considered the finest sounding device, also keeps voltage at one of several preset levels. | |
| News about Bel Canto Dac2 Release Gunbei,Why don't you wait until the DAC2 is out at your dealer's. Then take your DAC1.1 and Hermes there and compare. Better yet, if he's a decent dealer, do a take home evaluation with him. | |
| CLASSE - Great amps or highly flawed? Thanks, Tweekerman, for defending me and the original reason for my thread. This thread has basically served to allow others to spew upon me nastiness, condescension, and anger; which has only served to reveal their personality flaws and emotional... | |
| Audiogon Ethics I think we all need to remember that much of the equipment for sale on Audiogon is priced on the low side. No, not all of it, but many deals are out there, and if a person buys it and for whatever reason doesn't like it, he is free to ask whatever... | |
| Best KT88's for an Mc 2000 ? Any suggestions There's no reason for you to spend that kind of money. Mac uses the Svetlana KT88's, which you can get from Kevin Deal at Upscale Audio for $45 a piece, in matched quads. Actually, since the Mac has biasing on each tube, if I'm not mistaken, match... | |
| ARC VT-100 MK II vs. Sonic Frontiers Power 2 Nameci, I haven't changed the 6922's. They are original from 1/99. I have been using the Power 2 & the VT-100 single-ended. I have a good balanced cable that I'm now using between DAC & preamp, so maybe I'll switch that with the single end... | |
| ARC VT-100 MK II vs. Sonic Frontiers Power 2 Since posting this, I did get a Power 2. First thing I noticed is less immediacy and liveliness. Then I changed the tubes to KT88s, with a substantial change. Now, the sound is fuller and more dynamic, more immediate. It sounds part of the way tow... | |
| Audioquest or Transparent? I agree with Marakanetz. The AQ Pythons blow away the Transparent Ultras. The AQs are clean, clean, without the haze and texture of the Transparents. Yeah, if you want a bloated midrange, a dirty texture, and miss hearing half the detail, get the ... | |
| Mcintosh - Love Em' or Hate Em' ......Why? I, too, used to think -- McIntosh?? But since being exposed to a friend's Mac equipment, I changed my opinion. His MC2000 tube amp is quite good, although I still like my VT100 MkII better. My friend also had a MC 352, huge solid state amp, with t... | |
| Rap music on high-end speakers Nilthepill, you continue to speak volumes about yourself by bragging about how an engineer at Boeing runs about in his car blasting rap music into his neighborhoods and proud of it. Frankly, none of your abusive comments deserve any attention, and... | |
| Rap music on high-end speakers Rap isn't music. It's a garbage symptomatic of a diseased society. It's a glorification of violence, mayhem and low-life ghetto lifestyle.I tired of hearing the phrase "personal taste" pandered about to excuse every inferior or amoral thing. Is li... | |
| CLASSE - Great amps or highly flawed? Ramstl, taste and opinion are just that. However, repeatable, sonic characteristics are not the same. The Classe 201's damped out, airless, rolled-off high end was very obvious to three different listeners on highly resolving systems. So was the w... | |
| Transparent Audio IC's and Speaker Cable Transparent Ultra IC's have a pushed-up midrange, a bloated bass, and rolled-off highs that lack detail and are not clean. This was the result discovered in a comparison with Audioquest Python, which is $500 a meter. I think Transparent is extreme... |