larryi
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| Electronics for Harbeth, Especially Monitor 40 series I have only heard the 40.2 with tube amps. It sounded particularly good with a new re-build of the old Western Electric 124 amp. This amp puts out about 12 watts; I don't think high powered amps are a requirement with these speakers. If speaker... | |
| Looking for preamp recommendations to go with First Watt J2 - Under $1K on used market Another possibility is a different form of passive that employs a transformer volume control. Instead of attenuating by burning off the signal in a resistor, transformer volume controls (TVC) attenuate by converting voltage to current. At lower ... | |
| Looking for preamp recommendations to go with First Watt J2 - Under $1K on used market Tom, First Watt specifies the input impedance at 100k ohms, but does not give a sensitivity number. When you play CDs, you achieve adequate volume without the amp distorting? If that is the case, then you do indeed need more gain from your lines... | |
| The Best & Rarest of all Stereo Gear I suppose much of what I currently run is rare and quite nice sounding. My preamp is custom-made by Aldo D'Urso in Italy. This makes it "modern," although very few of the components are actually modern. The chassis, tube (310 and 311s), input a... | |
| HIGH Quality Electric Service Panel I know someone who use to design high end music and theater rooms. He would start with a high quality electric panel I believe he liked Equi=Tech. | |
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? I have heard them numerous times at shows and in a couple showrooms. At their best, they sound VERY good. The best that I heard them sound was in quite large rooms, rooms that were closer to small auditorium than even a large living room. Also,... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? I have found that how loud a system needs to be played to be satisfying is not just a matter of the type of speaker or particular models of speakers. The nature of the amplifier is as important. I have been at demonstrations where people who are... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? I particularly like horns because they can sound dynamic, lively, and satisfying at quite low volume levels. It is just a guess, but, I bet that is part of the reason they are so popular in Japan where everyone lives close together and no one wan... | |
| Music Server Thanks everyone for the response so far. Although I have not been in the market for a server for some time, when I did look into the matter, I did not particularly like computers running software approach as much as a purpose-built server. I fou... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals I like Marianne Faithfull's "Sister Morphine" more than the Stone's version, but, I don't know which is the cover (Jagger and Faithfull co-wrote the song).Peter Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is another decent cover.I like covers that ch... | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? From the standpoint of safety, longevity and energy savings, it makes sense to power down everything. This is particularly true of tube gear. I can understand not wanting to power down amps which can take a really long time to come back up to so... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland Inna,What do you mean by youtube auditioning? I hope you don't seriously mean that you have attempted to discern what stuff sounds like by the audio portion of a youtube posting. At best, youtube tells you something about what the gear looks lik... | |
| Viva, no longer a fan The type of protection of the US distributor and the local dealerships that Viva appears to be employing will, unfortunately, hurt some used buyers that unknowingly purchased a unit that has ended up in another country/sales region. But, absent s... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! emailist,The insect tweak is part of a comprehensive approach I take to just about all my endeavors--If I can get away with doing nothing, that is how I will handle it. That is why I also use "dust damping" for my turntable and other components--... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I am in agreement with most of what Art Dudley says about vintage 1930-60's gear, generally speaking, but, the specific examples he mentioned in the excerpts quoted above, are not what I would be setting out as examples. The Quad? Yes, a terrific... |