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| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Well, we agree that the CLS IIz was best driven by an SS amplifier, and I added that this is because M-L were targeting such an audience and told me point blank that they were not interested in building a speaker for tube amplifier aficionados. | |
| Where is the significant point of diminishing returns on hi-end turntable? I hope you are relatively young, and I hope you have the wisdom to pretty much ignore all this advice. Except mine, of course. Start low and slow and listen carefully at each step in your system development. Add and then take away in order to g... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? So, Totem, are you going to take the plunge, or not? | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Bag, You wrote, " Firstly, I never owned any versons before the IIz, and only heard a friends I many times as he sought to find an amp to drive them - Jadis, ARC, Krell, yada yada - he sold them. The Scintilla's are the only speaker that was h... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Sampsa, Somewhere I have or had a hard copy. But I will also check my other computer to see if I have an e-copy. It's one of those almost laughable translations from the Japanese, but one can make sense of the main points. I see this problem wi... | |
| ...a second listen I like the (graphite) Boston Audio mats. Sadly, BA is out of the business of making mats. They do come up second hand from time to time and do not cost a mint. While it is a bit contrary to Atma-sphere's advice, I also like my SAEC SS300 metal m... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Sampsa (and Fleib), Just a few things:While it does appear from visual inspection that the headshell of the RS-A1 might rotate in order to maintain tangency to the groove, this actually does not happen, because the wires from the arm wand to the c... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Arrrggghhh. Audioman, please read the earlier posts in this thread. You're preaching a certain kind of gospel put out by false industry prophets, but you're not speaking the truth. Think for yourself and do some reading, and most of all know th... | |
| If this sounds like YOUR Turntable story, please share your final chapter fjn, Do you perceive an internal contradiction in your lament? On the one hand you think there is something special about the WT, and on the other hand you also think it is the weak link. Can you say how these two positions are both tenable? I ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Bag, The ORIGINAL ML CLS was a match made in heaven for a tube amplifier; it was a nominal 16-ohm load. After I auditioned a pair in a store, I bought them immediately and loved them in my home system, although they were a bit bass shy. I relate... | |
| If this sounds like YOUR Turntable story, please share your final chapter You're leaving out the main characters in this plot: What tonearm and cartridge? Did you transfer them to the new turntable from the old one en bloc? If not, what? It would also be good to know at least whether your new turntable uses a differe... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Downunder, I don't think we're really "debating" the 3 curves so much as we are talking about what curve is optimal for what tonearms and why. I recently got very interested in tonearms that have zero headshell offset angle and are designed to be... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. That's a well known question for Martin-Logan's design. Most ESLs are not curvi-linear, however. Most are truly planar. The Sound Labs may appear to be curvilinear, but the apparent curve is composed of an array of planar facets, created by str... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Something just occurred to me: Is the offset angle required for Stevenson much more acute than that which is required for Lofgren and Baerwald? I think it's the opposite, because of the aforementioned need to twist the cartridge inward on a Stev... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Thoughts on pairing the Reed with the SME turntable(s): Just do it. The interaction of a tonearm with a turntable is much less significant than the complex interactions among the mat, the tonearm, and the cartridge, each with the other two. In ... |