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| Replicant 100 stylus longevity - truth or myth? Raul,I don't go beyond about 1,000 hours myself. I am currently running a Transfiguration Orpheus L, and it does not have that many hours on it. I still have the Titan, and it too is well under 1,000 hours. I did run a Helikon to about 1,000 hours... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus longevity - truth or myth? I believe it is the folks at Benz that state that the inherent longevity of a stylus is principally determined by the quality of the diamond. Higher quality natural diamonds being much superior to synthetic diamonds because of the better crystal l... | |
| Mini Amplifiers Look at the line of amplifiers from the Italian company Synthesis Audio. They have a line of EL84 tube integrated amps that sound really good for the money and look quite nice (comes in a variety of colors). These are not that easy to find in the ... | |
| Is there a service to install CDs in a Server? Thanks to you Kirkus, I am interested in the terra-san ripping service, though I have to ask them a number of questions. Because they do not list my server (Naim NDS) on their request form, I don't know if their metadata is compatible with my mach... | |
| Is there a service to install CDs in a Server? There are plenty of ripping service companies out there that will take your entire collection and rip them to hard drive storage. You should start by Googling "CD ripping service." The tricky part is getting the data about each CD to match up with... | |
| Impedance Mismatch ??? I am currently running an amp that has 600 ohm input transformers. This tube amp does not match up well with anything but a linestage that also has 600 ohm output transformers (I have such a linestage). A friend has a different amp that also has i... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari Mbovaird,If I were looking in that kind of price range, I would also look at some "unconventional" speakers, particularly the high efficiency speakers that can deliver dynamic and lively sound, even when played at quite low levels. Many horn and o... | |
| Impedance Mismatch ??? Adding an extra stage to increase input impedance to 40k probably degrades sound a little bit, so not doing so would be an improvement. The trade off is less compatibility with tube linestages which can have fairly high output impedances. Rowland ... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari A friend has a pair. I have listened mostly to jazz on his setup (he is both and avid jazz listener and a jazz guitar player). This speaker sound very, very good--very natural and realistic tonal balance, rich and saturated harmonics, and lack of ... | |
| Mark Levinson 326s I own a Reference 32 preamp (same as 326, except with power supply in a separate box). I did not do any sort of rigorous testing so I cannot say if any particular setting is the "best." I don't think that the different choices reflect actual diffe... | |
| Budget vacuum tube preamp? I know that going with a tube preamp/linestage and solid state amplifier is an often recommended combination. But, you should at least address certain issues before going that route. First, I have found the interaction of any particular tube lines... | |
| full range single speaker I heard the top of the line model(sorry, I don't know the name) driven by a Thoress amp one time and by a Tron amp another time. I like the very lively sound that these speakers deliver. The Surreal Sound speaker, which is similarly priced, is als... | |
| full range single speaker A good full-range driver in a proper enclosure can certainly do much better than 80 db, and can sound very alive, fast and dynamic. But, as with everything in audio, there are tradeoffs, particularly in the way of a lack of bass extension and a so... | |
| how make your speker faster I don't think there is any "answer" that would be universally applicable, so, any suggestion must come with a caveat that one must accept trial and error as the only means to improving dynamics and the perception of speed.Speakers tend to sound sl... | |
| Long term Hovland amp owners, are you still happy? I am not an owner, but, I have listened extensively to a friend's system that had the same combination. I think they produced very good sound for solid state back then, and I doubt much has changed since then (most "progress" is essentially market... |