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| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? dseltz, I've heard, and really liked, the Charney Companion with the BD3 driver, in a system driven by a SET 300B amp. While this amp does deliver more power than a 45 SET, I know your system can get quite loud while remaining clean. It is hard... | |
| DON:T WAIT! Replace Those Old Power Tubes! Some testers, like the Amplitrex, do test at full power and do give one an idea of how much life is left in the tube. This tester, if attached to a computer, will curve trace the tube. Someone who owns dozens of modern and vintage testers told m... | |
| Can I play my stereo records on a mono rig? It should be fine for playing stereo records. The basic design of Ortofon mono cartridges is the same for stereo and mono cartridges. The suspension is the same so that the stylus is free to move in the vertical direction needed for a stereo sig... | |
| Tweeters with or without fluid? The main function of the fluid is to cool the voice coil of the driver by transferring heat to nearby structures. The fluid can also act to damp the motion of the coil/diaphtagm. The main downside is that the fluid will dry out in about 15 to 20... | |
| Nosferatu I like the recommendations made above. I would add to that list Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive." | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato As a kid, when we were driving around my father would make the same argument about how stupid is the music playing on the radio. When he started up on that, I would start to sing "Three little fishies in an itty bitty pool. Three little fishies ... | |
| Will Accuphase E-800 be enough to power Klipsch La Scala speakers? You will have way more power than you can sensibly use. | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design One of my favorite basic design is a three-way, with a compression-driver/horn midrange covering a wide part of the range. The compression drivers I like are all vintage—from 1930’s to 1960’s. I own a system fitting that description—twin 12” woo... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Even if you are limiting this discussion to conventional cone drivers (e.g., not considering electrostatic or planar magnetic panel speakers, bending wave drivers like MBL speakers), there are great examples of one, teo, three, and more-way speake... | |
| Preamp issue Measuring DC offset does not rule out an intermittent failure like a large buildup of charge that is discharged as a large pulse characterized as a “pop.” But, I have not heard of such pulse damaging a tube linestage. I think Backert Labs will ... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? A particularly good Windham Hill album is Michael Hedges’ “Arial Boundaries” a terrific acoustic guitar album with extremely good sound on top of great music. | |
| Preamp issue If you can, talk to manufacturers of both components. The Backert Labs folks should be able to tell what was the likely cause of the damage to its component. At high fi shows, their folks seem to be quite frank and forthcoming. | |
| Preamp issue For the DAC to be the cause, something intermittent and very strong affecting both channels would have to be the cause. I don’t have any idea what that would be, but my guess is that this is an unlikely event. Most likely is something wrong in t... | |
| Garrard 301 tonearm build...thoughts? The table, assuming it has been properly reconditioned, is suitable for the finest systems. I know a dealer who recommends that table for systems deep into six figures. He loses a lot of money by NOT selling exotic modern tables, but he likes th... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? Yes, the LA 4 record, particularly the original release, is terrific sounding. East Wind is a Japanese label that consistently released great sounding records. |