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| Latest Absolute Sound I am quite surprised about how much is actually being sold. Last weekend, I went to a dealer that was doing a demonstration of the $200,000 ClearAudio turntable/arm/cartridge combination. The US distributor and ClearAudio representatives from Ge... | |
| Latest Absolute Sound One big difference between the ultra-expensive supercars and the audio component equivalents is that VERY few of the owners of such cars will ever actually drive the cars to the limit of their capability and actually "use" all that technology and ... | |
| VPI Traveler and Lyra Delos Jonathan Carr, the maker of Lyra cartridges has stated that his cartridges require a high quality arm because they transmit a lot of vibrational energy to the arm. This energy must be damped or dissipated properly and the arm bearings must be ver... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Hi ct0517,It appears that your Quad 57 setup is extremely well thought out and executed. While the 57 is a speaker that is fairly "easy" to set up and will deliver good sound under most conditions, I am sure that going the extra mile as you have ... | |
| What do you think is the best make volume control ?? ALPS NOBLE ???? My issue with some stepped attenuators is that many don't have enough steps; it seems like the ideal level is somewhere between the two steps. I find 24 steps is WAY to few; those with something like 47 steps, and steps no larger than than 1.5 db... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes I am not surprised that the EML meshplates turned out to be not robust enough to be driven hard. A lot of modern designs do drive tubes harder than do older amps. My EML meshplate 2a3s had a long life span in my Audio Note Kagekis, but, when I t... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Salectric,I am sure that your 753-type system sounds terrific. I really like the drivers you are using. I recently heard a system that is still in the tuning stage of build that utilizes the 32A horn and a 302 compression driver, a 15" field-coi... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Salectric,I agree with you about extreme vintage systems. I heard a monster set up in a huge dedicated room that sounded magnificent. It was based around a Western Electric 555 midrange driver and a 15A horn and twin 18" woofers (looked tiny in ... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Hi Charles 1 dad,Have you tried the EML meshplae tubes? I know they are not supposed to be as robust as the XLS, but, I do wonder how they sound. I use to run EML meshplate 2a3s in my Kageki, and that was a VERY interesting tube and quite differ... | |
| Elrog 300B vs Takatsuki 300B tubes Pani,I have heard one of the First Watt amps (cannot remember the specific model) in my system for about two weeks (borrowed from a friend). I liked it a lot--smooth, clear and lively. Yes, there was a bit of brittleness and an artificially hard... | |
| Spindle Holes There are actually three slightly different spindle hole sizes that are "standard" sizes. I saw an alignment protractor made by Axiom that has attachments for the three different spindle sizes. How crazy can an industry be that cannot get even t... | |
| Best near wall high end speaker If you don't mind stand-mounted speakers, the Audio Note AN-E are good candidates for near wall placement. These have the advantage of being reasonably efficient and easy to drive, so they can be used with a wide variety of lower powered amps. T... | |
| 12" Tonearms for TD-124 The Thorens 124 is the favorite table of a local dealer (apart from the $100k Audionote table with three motors and three giant power supplies for the motors). He particularly likes to equip them with the top of the line 12" Ortofon arm. This co... | |
| What do you think is the best make volume control ?? ALPS NOBLE ???? My headphone amp has a very good ALP RK50 volume control (not stepped). This is one of those "legendary" components. However, this is a very BIG pot and it costs quite a lot. A friend tried to buy one from the US distributor. He was told that... | |
| New Forum Format Sucks I am having a problem that I don't know if it is just particular to me. Even when I am logged in, I cannot post a message when I use IE as the browser, but I have no problems with Chrome. With IE, the box shows up to add a comment, but, I cannot... |