larryi
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| Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time Well adjusted and maintained versions of the Marantz and McIntosh tuners are terrific. The Fisher is pretty good too. I would add Naim tuners to the list.I own a Magnum Dynalab Etude. This is an unfailingly musical, sweet sounding tuner, but a tou... | |
| Using platforms / shelves under floorstanders? The type of coupling for any kind of speaker to the floor is a matter of system tuning. In other words, there is no one right way to do it; one must experiment to see what works best. A lot of times spiking a speaker to the floor is not the best a... | |
| is getting a tube pre a valid option with ss amp? Hi Mjcmt,I don't know if one can reasonably generalize about even a personal preference on type of tube based on a single comparison. First, type of tube chosen would depend not only on the designer's preference for the sound, but also circuit req... | |
| is getting a tube pre a valid option with ss amp? Eweedhome,I too am generally not enamored with the 6H30 for the same reasons. This again illustrates a problem with generalizing about the sound of tubes. There are quite a lot of high-powered amps running 6550 pentodes which use a lot of negative... | |
| is getting a tube pre a valid option with ss amp? Mjcmt, perhaps the AES/Cary is less touchy than some of the tube linestages I've tried. It is all a matter of actually trying combinations; any other way is a crapshoot.Wireless200, I am not surprised that your combination works well. There is som... | |
| is getting a tube pre a valid option with ss amp? I am a bit leery about any theoretical attempts to "compensate" for certain qualities or tendencies by finding another component with supposedly opposite qualities. This hardly ever works out as hoped, and for the most part results are unpredictab... | |
| Any one using Dampening fluid on there Schroeder? What fluid? Dampening of that arm is basically determined by its construction (choice of arm material and design) with some adjustment made by altering the space between the magnets that hold the string "bearing" taut. I would never put anything o... | |
| Need an amp with a 'turbo' top end I doubt that a brighter amp would help, but then again, this is a pure guess, particularly because you never mentioned the amp you are currently using. I would consider adding a supertweeter, something like the Elac, which has an omnidirectional d... | |
| Kimber 8TC or NBS King/Serpent speaker cables NBS has several basic designs with distinctively different sounds. The King Serpent group tends to be warmer, a bit relaxed and not as analytical as the other group. I like these speaker cables a lot.NBS cables are extremely stiff. With the King S... | |
| Silent Subwoofers ie: Buttkicker -your thoughts? I sat in one at CES, where I got to feel the chair shake when depth charges went off in "U-571." This really does not do much for the theater experience (worth a few chuckles more than anything else). It kind of reminded me of "The Tingler." When ... | |
| Please recommend a high-powered SS amp Khwarezm,To get a 9db increase, you would need 8 time the power, and that is assuming the speaker itself does not begin to severely compress the signal (heating of the voice coil increases resistance) which it will do. The Proac speakers I have he... | |
| Measure My Turntable Speed Just use a very cheap strobe disc and a flourescent bulb light source. The bulb flickers at a rate related to the 60Hz regulated frequency of the powerline. Even an incandescent bulb does this and can be used (though the image is not as clear). Th... | |
| Spades or bananas connectors? I haven't experimented myself, so I am just relaying information from two friends who are high end dealers. For convenience, dealers love Banana plugs because they change out gear all of the time. However, neither use banana plugs because they fin... | |
| Genuine Telefunken? Oops, I think they are marked 803 S. Sorry, I haven't pulled them from my phono stage in a LONG time. | |
| Genuine Telefunken? I don't know if the conterfeiters have managed to get the embossed emblem right, but,on the bottom of real Telefunkens should be their diamond symbol that is actually part of the glass pressing (raised surface) and not painted or etched into the g... |