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| Weird Thing after I lift my ground. Your digital gear is telling you that you did something that was not kosher. By lifting ground you are depending on the connection between neutral and earth ground all the way back at the box. IF there is resistance between earth and neutral becau... | |
| Battery Powered amps and preamps Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the NEW amps were designed by Nelson Pass. I have heard that the design is good but reliability has something to be desired. I have never owned one so this is just hearsay. | |
| power cords/surge protector-conditioner I have not seen a schematic of either conditioner so I am just speculating or taking a WAG. Sometimes in the world of audio less is more. I am not a big fan of adding equipment into a system unless there is a need for it. The purpose of a line con... | |
| Switched from well known Amp to Odyssey Sheadlee, which Audio Research amps have you compared them to? I have heard the Stratos because I recommended them to a neighbor who did not have alot to spend. For the money they have no rival but I respectfiully disagree that they blow away any ... | |
| Rogue 88 or AR Classic 60 ? Sonically, with good 6550's the classic 60 is far superior to the rogue. Too many owners of the Classic 60 settled for the sound they got using the stock 6550's from ARC. With better tubes this little amp was wonderful. If you are looking for a re... | |
| Switched from well known Amp to Odyssey The first four amps you mention are amoung the creme de la creme of solid state amplifiers. While for the money it is tough to beat the Odyssey, I do not know of anybody who would give up their Plinius, Krell, Rowland or Levinson for one. I could ... | |
| power cords/surge protector-conditioner Sorry Dekay, I meant to say plug both into one outlet box. When you do this the conditioners are in parrallel. In my origional post I should have pluralized the HTS2000. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. Let me know if you tried it and if... | |
| Calling all Recording Engineers Frogman, you lucky dog! I have not been fortunate enough to have seen the Bill Evans Trio play live. I live on Eastern Long Island and have to travel to NYC for good jazz. I try to stop by Fat Tuesdays and the Blue Note whenever I am in the city b... | |
| Isolation? IMHO isolation does make a difference with an amp. The key is to make you amp stand of material that is difficult to resonate. I went to home depot and purchased a concrete patio boack for 2 bucks and a can of black spray paint. The block was 24" ... | |
| power cords/surge protector-conditioner Dekay, for digital and analog grounding the rule of thumb is to have the analog and digital circuits have separate grounds that tie together at one point. Therefore, I recommend you have your HTS2000 plugged into one outlet box essentially putting... | |
| Point of Diminishing Returns? Al, don't sweat the negative votes. You neither said or did anything wrong. It take all types and the party that voted negatively on your post was of the non-intelligent, low life and immature type. Enough said, I think I will get about 100 negati... | |
| Calling all Recording Engineers Excellent points Frogman! I know you are a Bill Evans fan. On his album "Waltz for Debbie" the drummer uses brushes quite alot. On one particular number (I do not recall which) he rubs his brushes on his snare and it is the most live sounding reco... | |
| Before They Were Famous Joplin and Hendrix at the Singer Pavillion of the old New York Worlds Fair in Flushing, Queens. I think it was 1968 and I was 16 at the time (went with some older kids and it was my first concert)....Unbelievable!!! | |
| bananas or spades? There may be some audible differences between spade lugs and bananna plugs. My personal opinion on this subject is that you should go with the spades because they give you a superior mechanical connection to your amp and/or speaker. Good luck with... | |
| Calling all Recording Engineers Kudos to all responders. It's rewarding to participate in a forum where the music is being discussed and not the cables, amps etc. that plays it back for us. All the great equipment is useless unless we have something good to playback. I hope we g... |