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| First Watt to Pass Labs I can't compare any First Wattt amp with a Pass amp, but, just yesterday, I borrowed a friend's J2 to try in my system. It is being used to drive 99 db/w speakers with a nominal 8 ohm impedance, so the match seems reasonable.On a basic, operationa... | |
| Tonearm choices Grubscrew,I've only heard a Whest phonostage once, and I thought it sounded pretty good. I currently use a tube phonostage myself (Viva Fono), though I've owned a few solid state units in the past (Linn Linto, the phonostage built into a Levinson ... | |
| Tonearm choices A friend of mine had both a Graham Phantom and a Basis Vector arm on a Basis table. He much preferred the Basis Vector with his Orpheus cartridge. I preferred that combination too, though this sort of judgment is very system specific. A friend in ... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave Of course, having the ability to deliver very deep and powerful bass is a big advantage. I just think that, given the usual constraints of size, power requirement, and BIG dollars, there are tradeoffs involved. There are tradeoffs for ANY aspect o... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave If one can get deeper bass without any tradeoff of other qualities, why not? But, such "free" deep bass is hardly ever achieved. Bigger drivers able to push more air usually means more mass (inertia makes such drivers less nimble), bigger cabinets... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals One more for the list:The Ballad of Lucy Jordan by Marianne Faithfull. I like that version much more than the overwrought version by Dr. Hook. | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals How about Jazz "covers" of popular tunes, such as:Coltrane "My Favorite Things"Johnny Griffin "The Way You Look Tonight" | |
| how close in sound can a tube and ss amp sound ? It is interesting that most of the comments have to do with differences at clipping levels. To me, the biggest differences are at quite low volume levels. A lot of solid state gear sounds flat, dull and unengaging, compared to tube gear, at lower ... | |
| Sound diffusion panels--do they reduce brightness? It looks like you are discovering one of the most annoying "secrets" about audio. It can literally take years to discover the ideal placement of speakers. Results are quite unpredictable, and shockingly small movement can have BIG sonic consequenc... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Shonen Knife: Top of the World Nazareth: Love Hurts (and I love Orbison)Persuasions: Angel of HarlemCowboy Junkies: Thunder RoadEagles: Hotel California (tell me this is not a steal/cover of Jethro Tull's "We Used to Know") | |
| Sound diffusion panels--do they reduce brightness? Hi Blueskies,Have you solved, or at leat diagnosed, the problem with excessive brightness? | |
| How essential is shielding? I once had problems with noise in my phono system so I ended up bringing my table to the dealership. At the dealer, the noise problem did not occur, but, the dealer noted that the phonocable was unshielded. He had a cable that was supposedly ident... | |
| New Lyra Delos wheres the bass? Cyclopse,It sounds like you covered all of the basics--I would look primarily at loading and VTA when there is an issue of tonal balance. Perhaps you could try loading down the cartridge a little more (lower number, like 125 ohms or even lower num... | |
| Amp damping factor? If I manufactured an amp with low output impedance, I would certainly tout its high damping factor as a positive attribute. But, for anything other than really high output impedance amps, like some SET and triode pushpull tube amps, playing into s... | |
| Ultralinear vs. Triode vs. SET Pubul57,Off the top of my head, there is the Audiospace AS-6m (KT88, ultralinear/triode switchable), Primal Luna Prologue 5 integrated amp (KT88 ultralinear), Cayin A-88 integrated amp (KT88 ultralinear/triode switchable), at least one Ayon integr... |