larryi
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| Amplifier for Cornwall IV A very cheap, but quite good sounding, approach would be to build the Elekit 300b amplifier. Even if you don't have much in the way of soldering and other amplifier building skills, these can be learned on line and the it should be relatively eas... | |
| High end turntables As you discovered, a cartridge with a narrow profile stylus can play a part of the groove that has not been previously damaged or worn, which came make so battered records sound new (as long as you clean the record thoroughly). Also, good tonearm... | |
| High Fidelity Sound Speaker You have capacitors providing a high pass to the tweeters, so how is this a crossoverless system? Even if the fullrange drivers are used full range (no lowpass filter to that driver), there is a crossover to the tweeters. I’ve heard quite a few... | |
| 30 to 50 watts seems to be all I desire I have three amps, the “biggest” being rated at 6.5 watts per channel (parallel single-ended 2a3). I bought a pushpull 349 amp from an Italian builder. I had the amp for a couple of years and had no idea of its output capability. When He came h... | |
| High Sensitivity, high / flat impedance Speaker Shopping Among the very best speakers I’ve heard are Charney Audio speakers. The models I heard were a bit over your price range, so I don’t know about the sound of the models that are in your target range. The $17,000 model I particularly liked is not t... | |
| How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers? Well, if you never heard such a setup, you cannot comment based on experience. As I write this I am sitting 8 ft from a horn setup in a most sized room. I have heard few systems I like more than what I have (those too were horn systems), and I’v... | |
| How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers? I have heard the AG Duos in four different rooms, including two small rooms and liked them in all instances. The bass sounded more even and better integrated in the larger rooms, but there was plenty to like in even the smaller rooms—vivid, livel... | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good For such albums with no weak tracks include: Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks Rolling Stones: Some Girls Graham Parker: Sueezing Out Sparks Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | |
| SET Shootout China VS The USA I agree with Atmasphere--most tube amps, both single-ended or pushpull, benefit from driver tubes with more oomph than the 12AX7 or 12AU7, which often means a 6SN7. By the way, Atmasphere is being quite diplomatic by not mentioning the type of ... | |
| SET Shootout China VS The USA charles1dad, A nice concise history of what happened. I would add that another aspect to the story. When stereo came around, the need to find room for two speakers, instead of just one, meant that smaller speakers gained in popularity. These s... | |
| Basis Audio Fans My table was built in black, but, it looks grey because I don't bother to dust (I rely on dust damping of the plinth). The platter is covered by a Charlie Rich album someone gave me which acts as a dust cover--it is by a wide margin the record mo... | |
| 2A3 vs. 300B single end triode.... There are plenty of listeners with extensive experience with all of the low-powered triodes that love the 300b for its midrange beauty. I personally think it delivers a slightly bloated and mushy bass, a slightly rolled off top end and less dynam... | |
| Basis Audio Fans I met him twice at shows and he was a soft spoken gentleman that would never bad mouth competitors and would even speak freely about limitations of his own product. He was so open and generous with advice about turntables and tonearms. | |
| SET Shootout China VS The USA If the idea is that one should not buy products from a country that ranks lower than one's own, based on whatever social metric, this would be problematic for those countries that rank high. You could scarcely buy anything non-domestic if you liv... | |
| Basis Audio Fans I don’t know if it is still the case, but when i bought my Debut (with vacuum clamp and motor controller), the most impressive thing was the precision machining and tight manufacturing tolerances—you cannot see any evidence of runout when the plat... |