lostbears
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| Whats playing on your system today? The Hart Valley Drifters album Folk Time. Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter 1962! Before the Grateful Dead or even the Warlocks. | |
| Audio Research Foundation Series I have a friend who had a Calypso Signature and then a Ref 5se. The Calypso Signature is very good but the Ref 5se was better. He is now moving up to the Ref 6. He is using a pass .8 series amp. I agree with you about the looks of the Ref 5se. T... | |
| Linestage vs. Preamplifier.... A preamp has a built in phono preamp. A line stage does not. You can (and is sometimes better) use a separate phone preamp with your line stage. You can choose a separate phono preamp that is an excellent fit for your phono cartridge. | |
| Audio Research Foundation Series I have heard the LS28 at my dealer, I do not own one. I own a Ref 5se along with a DAC8. I like my Ref 5se much better than the LS28. It has a bigger more well defined soundstage. It also has more presence. The Ref 5 has tubes in the power supply... | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 and Sonus Faber Cremona I drive a pair of Sonus Faber Elipsa SEs with a Ref 110. It is an excellent match. Generally they are known to work very well together. Audio Research is owned by the same parent company as Sonus Faber. They are demoed at shows together a lot an... | |
| Solidsteel 5 or Adona Zero racks I had a Solidsteel rack and sold it. I now have a Zoethecus rack. If I were looking for a rack it would be made of maple. I have tube gear and I have found maple sounds more natural. | |
| How do i tell if i have a failed tube in my preamp? Are all the tubes lit up? Take the tubes from one channel and but them in the other. Does the distortion move to the other channel? If so it is a tube that has gone bad. Then just go one by one until you find the tube. Be sure you unplug the prea... | |
| power conditioner gdhal, I don't know. I sold both the Adcom and Furman after I bought the Shunyata Triton. I also don't actually know how the Triton would fair in the situation. I threw away the light bulb when I found that was the problem. I did not want in the ... | |
| power conditioner The hum was definitely coming from the preamp. The cause was a compact fluorescent bulb in the dining room. We don't use the lights in dining room much. The bulb was putting noise in the line. You turn the lights on, the preamp had a hum. You ... | |
| power conditioner I did not have any real complaints about the Furman other than I thought it should have helped protect against the hum. I actually thought something was wrong with my preamp and ended up sending it back to Audio Research. It was only when my deal... | |
| power conditioner I have had a number of power conditioners over the years. An Adcom Ace 515, PS Audio P300, Furman Elite 15 PFI and Shunyata Triton to name a few. I only use a power conditioner for my front end. I plug my amp straight into the wall. I leave all m... | |
| ARC PH 3 running Balanced through ARC BL 1 Atributes? Explain what you are trying to do and what equipment you are using and I will try to help. As I remember the CD3 has both balanced and single ended outputs so you can use either. What preamp (I assume) are you trying to connect to it? The preamp ... | |
| Record weights It all depends on the table. Clearaudio makes a clamp for the especially for the Concept. They also have the Twister that would work well with the Concept. I own a Clearaudio Innovvation Wood and use the VPI record weight. But my guess is that it... | |
| What HardDrive Do You Use? I use a Synology 415+ NAS and keep the hard drives out of the room with my stereo. The NAS is populated with HGST drives. HGST drives have one of the lowest failure rate among high capacity hard drives. I have a Samsung solid state drive in my co... | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona Auditors or Olympica I First let me say that I am a big Sonus Faber fan. I own the Elipsa SE Red speakers. I had the Sonus Faber Cremona Auditors in my system a few years ago. I think they were the M version but can't say for sure. I was not impressed. I have also he... |