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| The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp As an owner of a high end system, you are undoubtably aware that there is no one single "best" in any component category. There are plenty of headphone users that like electrostatics and many that don't, and there is disagreement about the merits ... | |
| LS3/5A vs Sonus Faber Liuto Monitor I have not heard the two anywhere near contemporaneously or in even remotely similar setups. But, I liked the sound of both. The Liuto is a very capable, "modern" (meaning that it tends toward the brighter and leaner side) sounding speaker. In the... | |
| Tube preamp for SS amp A friend of mine has an Act 2 and it is very quiet. His system has speakers that are 105 db/w efficient, so they reveal the smallest amount of noise in the amplification chain and he has no noise issues with this linestage. | |
| VPI Classic 3 vs Basis 2200 The Vector arm should work well with ANY of the commonly used cartridges. The arm is very good at dampening/grounding vibrational energy from cartridge, meaning that it would work with demanding cartridges that impart a lot of energy to the tonear... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? Highroller,I don't know about your Lyr, but, a time delay mute is designed to prevent any output from the amp until it is warmed up and stable. Some tube gear will put out pretty nasty noise as it is powered up so a mute is designed to protect the... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? Most tube gear sounds pretty decent within 10-15 minutes of being turned on so there is no good reason to leave the gear on all of the time--waste of energy and waste of the limited life of tubes. While there is a possible safety issue with leavin... | |
| Tube preamp for SS amp From my own experience, it is an absolute requirement that the specific tube linestage be tried with the specific solid state amplifier. Even with supposedly compatible impdedances and short cable runs, etc., the result of going from tube into sol... | |
| VPI Classic 3 vs Basis 2200 I have a synchrowave and it makes a difference, though I would hardly consider it to be a major improvement. Pitch stability is good with Basis tables without a separate power supply so what one hears is not so much related to obviously better pit... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? It was made some time in the 1970's by a Greek audiophile who made several variants of these amps. Two of these amps where brought to the US by a Greek diplomat. One set is a four chassis monster and the other is a two-chassis monster. I believe b... | |
| VPI Classic 3 vs Basis 2200 I currently own a Basis Debut with an outboard motor controller and vacuum clamping system. The build quality is exceptional. Unlike some other tables where you can see slight play or out-of-round "wobble" in rotating parts, absolutely nothing of ... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I still like my Audionote Kageki amps, although these days, I use a modern version of a Western Electric 133 pushpull amp (uses Western Electric transformers, vintage caps and resistors, and Western Electric 348 and 349 tubes). This amp has 600 oh... | |
| Why so many cut Nordost Odins? There are some cables which include a kind of electrical network in the cable, with different networks for different cable lengths. These cables cannot be shortened and re-terminated without adversely affecting performance (e.g. NBS cables). I don... | |
| Washington DC I don't know if there is any kind of active society in the area anymore. The closest thing is a bunch of guys who hang out at Deja Vu Audio in McLean Virginia on Saturdays. | |
| VPI Classic 3 vs Basis 2200 On a Basis 2500, a friend of mine had both a Vector 2 and a Graham Phantom arm. Using both a Lyra Titan i and a Transfiguration Orpheus cartridge for comparison, several listeners compared the two arms while cartridges were switched in the arms. E... | |
| Why so many cut Nordost Odins? I would be a bit cautious when buying reterminated cables, particularly Nordost cables (or cables with similar construction) because they are harder to reterminate. These cables have multiple conductors, each individually insulated and wrapped wit... |