lloydc
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| Mesa Baron I forgot to add that I have had the best results with old Telefunken input tubes, but the difference was very subtle and I am not sure it is worth the trouble and expense. | |
| Mesa Baron I can only imagine how difficult and expensive it would be to send the amp back to Mesa for the mods, from Malaysia! You might be able to get it done locally with advice from Mesa. The mods cost almost $1000 in 1998; they included better caps and ... | |
| Mesa Baron Thanks so much! I am indeed still on that quest, since buying Baron #54 in '96, and will try it. Mesa used to recommend a passive pre. I have also used an AR LS-15 pre (for many years). Would suspect your advice applies to all transformer-based pa... | |
| Remove paint from Rega tonearm? I had no idea anyone had carried Rega mods so far. Thanks for the link! | |
| Most Important? Once you reach a certain point, the room matters a great deal. I do not switch gear very often, but have moved several times in the last decade. In each room, the system sounded very different. Consider the difference the venue makes at a concert. | |
| Hi End rack really deliver? From the point of view of any wife I ever met, even a Billy Bags rack ("ugly") is relatively expensive ($1200+) and a Finite Element is astronomically so ($4500). Once she hears the cost, the discussion may be academic... | |
| Is your image centred? I have had the same chronic issue, also with a Grado cartridge (Statement Reference), which did not occur with cd. I have wondered whether the Grado was off or just more sensitive than other cartridges. It was improved by readjusting azimuth, and ... | |
| recommend full featured preamps? My speakers are Infinity Prelude PF-R, which are highly efficient - but I think their impedence curve does dip down to almost 3 ohms at one point. The Baron is not like other tube amps, its output is more dependent on the speakers' imp. curve., bu... | |
| recommend full featured preamps? Thanks for the suggestions. I'm currently using an AR LS-15 preamp, Mesa Baron amp, EAR 834P phone pre. I have a backup pre, a DB Sytems 2B with excellent tone contols, which was very good in its day, and generally considered better than anything ... | |
| What did you replace your Aerial 10T's with? Going to a tube amp would solve the mid issues, but probably would not do drums quite so well as the Krell. | |
| how to correct channel imbalance? thanks. I'll get a dmm and do more testing and switching. | |
| Directv DVR and external portable Hard Drive check the video forums - there's a tremendous amount of info on this topic. the (Comcast) Scientific Atlanta SA 8000 HD is said to use the internal and external at the same time. You do have to use the esata connection. Western Digital makes an ex... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Bent can not get the s&B trannies any more, that's why they are redesigning the MU. | |
| Analog digital converters is the concensus that 24bit/192kHz converters are required to fully realize the potential of lp's? they all seem to be more than $2K. | |
| Ear protection for concerts The foam types are terrible for this purpose. The cheap solution is "musician" type earplugs, which theoretically decrease the total volume while preserving the relative balance of the sound spectrum. I keep pair in my car at all times. I got some... |