larryi
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| viva remot control The "controller," which you hold in your hands costs nothing. I would want a small manufacturer to select a reliable and cheap model and not waste time and money reinventing the wheel. The cost comes from the motorized volume pot or resistor ladde... | |
| Recommend relatively obscure high end tube preamps I have just picked up the "VivA Fono" stage. This stage works extremely well with my Lyra Titan cartridge once I removed the loading resistors and substituted the 12AX7 tubes with Amperex Bugle Boys (the model I tried was originally set up for a T... | |
| viva remot control You could email the US distributor for VivA (info@profundo.us). They are extremely helpful. | |
| Tube Preamplifier Time If, as it appears to be the case, the original poster auditioned in a brick and mortar store then bought on-line, I have quite a different hope than expressed by Jond above. I hope the thing craps out and he as no recourse --that would be both jus... | |
| differences between tube and solid state designs Trelja,I think you nailed it perfectly describing what tubes can do better than solid state. I do enjoy systems based on solid state amps, but NONE can, so far, deliver what a good tube amp can deliver. Unfortunately, there are a lot more BAD tube... | |
| What is the best phono preamp you have heard? Can't say, because I've heard precious few in my own system. But, I have "heard" (i.e., they were in systems that I heard playing) the Connoisseur, the top-of-the-line Boulder, an Audionote (uk) M-10, and a Kondo rig (I think M-77 with stepup). Th... | |
| CD Players – life of laser Imin2u,Unless you are hoping for a Guinness book entry, what is the purpose of constantly running the player? It seems like "break in" mania taken to an extreme. Long before the whole thing dies, why wouldn't you expect performance to deteriorate ... | |
| What is your favorite speaker wood or veneer? I like the deep red stained Maple of Sonus Faber Anniversarios and Stradivarius. Other interesting finishes can be found by going to the Avalonacoustics.com site and finding their page of different speaker finishes.For darker stained wood, I perso... | |
| CD Players – life of laser I don't know about ALL players, but for most, neither the laser nor the spindle motor is operating when a disc is in the machine but it is not playing and not left in "pause." Thus, the parts that more readily wear out, namely the transport and la... | |
| bat vk-51se vs. audio research ref2mkii I find that it is almost impossible to predict how two pieces of gear will interact and sound together. You must ultimately make a choice based on actual trial -- anything else is a crapshoot. Recently, I heard a trial of a 5 watt pushpull 45 amp ... | |
| What is Better? SS Amp+Tube CD OR Tube Amp+SS CD Bonger, Your friend assumes that solid state gear is "neutral" and "clean" while tube gear is somehow less pure. I think a lot of us would disagree. All gear has its characteristic sound, and it is hard to generalize about which is more neutral. T... | |
| levinson 32 heat Wadia,Most linestage/preamps are Class A biased. Given the low output of linestages, excessive heat is normally not an issue with solid state linestages. Besides, with the Ref. No. 32, the amplification stage, input switching and volume resistor l... | |
| Helikon LOADING My VTA adjustment is quite subtle. The arm, at the pivot, is .3mm down from dead parallel. That little difference can be heard. | |
| Helikon LOADING Loading affects the frequency balance -- LESS loading (higher value like 1k or 47k) means a more prominent peak in the treble response, but, it also means that the peak and fall off after the peak occurs at a higher frequency. Therefor, it is hard... | |
| cartridge demanatising Absolutely the wrong kind of demagnetization. With a cartridge, a strong "electrical" signal is sent through the coils of a moving coil cartridge to demagnetize certain iron parts of the cartridge which should not be magnetized. A bulk demagetizer... |