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| Synthesis Amplifiers: One of High End's Best Kept Secrets? I like the Titan with every speaker I heard it driving, but, I like the A40 as much with high efficiency speakers. But, neither is a Western Electric 124. I know someone with unlimited resources replace triamping with three $250,000 amps with on... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands I am a tube gear fan. While I don’t think Ayre gear sounds particularly like tube gear, and their stuff is not tonally warm, I like their sound for some reason. | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? I heard the same cartridge (Transfiguration Orpheus L) on the same table (Linn LP12) with two different arms (Naim ARO and Basis Vector 3). The Naim ARO was a livelier sounding arm, but, surface noise was a little bit more prominent. In this pa... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands If you don't need remote control, Klyne Audio makes good sounding and exquisitely built line stages stages, phono stages and preamps (built in phono). That is pretty much all they make or have ever made. | |
| Gold coated brass speaker spades Certain assumptions are being used to justify finding brass or any other material inferior without the assumptions being supported. Is conductivity the deciding factor in what sounds good? Is it necessarily the case that a material that that red... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands It might help to know more about what you need, such as remote control, balance control, any other features and function, and price range. It's been a while since I heard your candidates, but, I liked Ayre and I owned, and liked Coda. However, I... | |
| HiFi satisfaction and/ or Musical enjoyment I think it is great that he found a path to happiness. I did not think it was really preaching to all of us and suggesting any other approach is wrong. Although he did not specify what was in the dedicated room system, it might well be that he s... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? I’ve heard some arm swaps using the same table and cartridge where the sound changed and apparent surface noise changed too. Arms that make the sound seem livelier also tend to make noise more prominent, while arms that sound more precise and tig... | |
| Gold coated brass speaker spades Brass might be cheaper than copper, but, do we really know that it is bad for sound or that it is a bad choice to do cost cutting on the choice of spades vs. cost cutting elsewhere? Presumably, only the very top models of these companies represen... | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp The sound issue you mention DOES sound like a loading issue which will have a much bigger impact on sound than would tube choice. The VERY long cable to your phono stage would add a lot of capacitance. The best thing is to find a way to locate t... | |
| Gold coated brass speaker spades There are no set rules on this sort of thing. There are many good sounding and bad sounding examples of all sort of connectors and the binding posts. A speaker builder in my area who makes custom amps and speakers, some ultra expensive, looks fo... | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp Yes, it has only 70% of the gain of a 12AX7. Aside from reducing gain, if it is used as part of the equalizer circuit, that lower gain could screw up the equalization curve and mess up the sound that way. | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp New Teles are JJ (Slovakian). Even supposedly vintage Teles could be Chinese fakes. These days, the fakes look pretty authentic—they have the diamond molded into the glass like the real thing. Anything good has fake copies. I’ve seen fake Aud... | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp The Telefunkens I run in my phono stage are the crazy expensive ECC 803S (equivalent of 12AX7). I have heard others, but I don’t recall specifics. | |
| NOS Tube Recommendation for Quicksilver Phono Pre Amp Is the cartridge loading the same for both the new and old phono stage/section? That warm and "wet blanket" sound can be the product of incorrect loading. If you have options, try a different setting for loading. The right value for loading is ... |