larryi
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| Leave tube amp on all day? I would consult with Cary on this one. Manufacturers say different things. The manufacturer of my amp, Audionote (uk) says that my amp should stay on all of the time. Other manufacturers say turn on only when in use.I turn my amp off during the we... | |
| Linear Tracking or Not?, Any Experiences and Recs Years ago, I had a nightmarish stint with a Maplenoll table that had an air bearing arm. But, this was a very cheap table with a very, very cheap air pump. The pump was the source of the problem.I know of three brands of arm/tables offering tangen... | |
| Is calibration services for DLP set worth it? I have a Sony Qualia set (uses the SXRD chip set). I agree that it is quite an improvement over any DLP RPTV. I admit to being too lazy to have the set properly calibrated (I've done it by eye, the Sony allows for an amazing amount of owner calibr... | |
| Is There any Truly "High End" Integrated Amp? A possible candidate is the Viva Solisti. This is an Italian single-ended design that uses an 845 tube for each channel. It is a true integrated, not one of those tube "integrated" amps that have a passive linestage (only volume control and switch... | |
| Best MONITORS availables I've only heard the Magico at a show. It sounded okay, and then I saw the price. YIKES! I know it is not quite a monitor, but for a small speaker, I think the Gryphon Cantata is quite nice sounding. But it too is way up there in price.Still, as go... | |
| What exactly does "Hospital Grade" mean? Hospital grade outlets cannot overcome the tenacity of human folly. In South Africa, a hospital noted that patients in a particular bed in the ICU unit were found dead on Saturday morning on a regular basis. Suspecting a serial killer, investigato... | |
| Worst Name for A Piece of Equipment I think I saw a Von Gaylord amp at CES last year. It was a tube amp that utilized big transmitting tubes, like a 211. The output tubes were encased in glass or plexiglass that was filled with WATER. You could see the heat causing ripples in the co... | |
| Worst Name for A Piece of Equipment An audio dealer that carried the Ars Audes speaker line had the really nice sounding "Sol" model, which he liked to refer to as the Ars Sols. | |
| OK WILSON OWNERS. HERE IS YOUR CHALLENGE How can any kind of fair and realistic comparison be made under these conditions? How will anyone know if the performance of each contender was optimized, and optimized for whose taste? II heard MAXX IIs in several CES/THE SHOW set ups last year. ... | |
| Purpose of Decanters? I can't imagine that there is any advantage to decanting distilled spirits. With scotch, you want to minimize exposure to air (oxygen); some people even inject nitrogen to displace the oxygen in order to reduce exposure once a bottle is opened. De... | |
| Best tube preamp, cost not object ? I, too, have recently been looking for a very good linestage. I have not heard most of the top candidates in my own system or systems that I have some familiarity. I have heard a top level Kondo and the Audionote (uk) M-8 and M-10. These are all t... | |
| CDP for Naim I am personally a bit leery about even NAIM's emphasis on what they call PRAT. If one were looking for the player to impart a kind of impact or edginess that makes the beat more obvious and insistent in rock music, then yes, the CDS3 is not that k... | |
| CDP for Naim I have a CDS3. It is quite a different animal from the CDX2. It appears, on first audition, to be less dynamic than the CDX2. But, it's leading edge attack seem, to me, more natural. It sounds a lot less mechanical and artificial in this respect. ... | |
| search for musical s.s. yields a tube epiphany I am not saying tubes are superior to solid state, or vise versa, but you've discovered that, FOR YOU, tubes deliver the things that matter most. I feel the same way. But if taut and punch bass were what I crave, uber alles, or if I fell in love w... | |
| Jumpers for Spendors A friend of mine with Spendor S-8s hates the jumpers that come with the speaker and insists on using high quality jumpers made out of speaker cable. A dealer does the same with all of the speakers that come with double binding posts. |