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| Tube Amps Watts vs SS amp If you are starting with the premise that you need 400 wpc, and you have a somewhat tight budget restriction, most tube amps are not good candidates. I think that even ultra expensive high powered tube amps don't sound very good and would stick w... | |
| Digital vs Vinyl: The winner is ?? dave_b,Thank you for the link. For a short presentation, this was pretty good. I agree with the comment that vinyl and digital differences in sound are a small part of the overall sound. As for the paper--on digital tape vs. analogue tape--that... | |
| Synposium Acoustics - Impressed! For maximum damping, the shelf should contact the bottom of the speaker. If you need more height, or to angle the speaker a bit upward, then footers should be placed under the shelf (i.e., between the shelf and the floor). I wanted a slight tilt... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? My speakers have a Jensen-Onken cabinet for the twin 12" woofers, with the midrange compression driver/horn sitting on a cradle above this box (bullet tweeter on a cradle below the horn). It was easy to just replace the compression driver and hor... | |
| Synposium Acoustics - Impressed! I use Symposium Ultra platforms under a couple of different components and the Svelte shelves under my speakers. Like any vibration damping products, it is a matter of "tuning" so that more damping is not necessarily an improvement--it is possibl... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? I don't know if I would rule out the bigger ProAc speakers based on hearing their smaller models. Certainly someone who likes Harbeth, Audio Note and Spendor would at least be a candidate for ProAc speakers. I don't know how easy it would be to ... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? Why not, if that is something that you are interested in? Grandma Moses took up painting at 78, so you have a 22 year head start on becoming a well recognized practitioner of your chosen field. I would guess that it is easier these days to be se... | |
| What's Your Fantasy Supergroup? Having heard Yoko Ono cover Adele, I think Adele should be added to the supergroup so that they can sing duets while looking lovingly into each other's eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsgMbxyDmCY | |
| Replacing Vintage Spendors is not as easy as I thought I like the Harbeth's too, and they certainly do have some similarity in sound to Spendor vintage speakers. For me, the slight hardness/sibilance in the upper midrange/treble region in all of their speakers, except the 40.2's, is a little bit of a... | |
| Replacing Vintage Spendors is not as easy as I thought I would be auditioning Audio Note speakers--I have never heard of anyone complaining about too much treble response with their speakers and they are quite easy to drive so they work with a wide variety of amplifiers (by the way, what amps would yo... | |
| Audio Research Reference 6 or Mark Levinson Reference n32 Haine, I find the Reference No. 32 to be a very composed, easy to listen to linestage. But, like most things solid state, it lacks a little bit of a "spark" of liveliness or vividness that comes with really good tube linestages. It also tends to... | |
| Difference Between DAC Types I have no idea which type of DAC topology might be better than another. I do know that NAIM dubs their reference gear with the "555" number. Their "555" CD player had a R2R DAC. Their very best server/DAC, until recently, did not "earn" their "... | |
| Top five live Rock And Roll Albums Concert for BangladeshDylan: Before the FloodAllman Bros.: Fillmore EastLittle Feat: Waiting for ColumbusThe Band: The Last Waltz | |
| What equipment have you bought this year so far ? Naim ND 555 Network Player (already had the necessary 555 DR power supply) | |
| Repair Shop In VA / Washington DC - Rec Please Your component, being a receiver, might be harder to service than a typical tube component. Still, three months is a really long time. I would contact the places mentioned above and describe what you have and what you want done and they might be... |