lou_3rd
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| What are your thoughts on the Dragon tape deck? Sank is capable of good work, under some conditions, but he is also capable of taking money not earned and returning gear in worse shape than it was in when it was sent. Not only that, but things he seems to never get done on time. I had to resort... | |
| Adcom or Creek? Hi Miles,Depends, upon system resolution, etc. I am not sure what you mean about extra cost though. I am going to assume that you mean over the cost of a DI/O, You can have my DI/O it is garbage! The voltage regulator went in it, and it is such ju... | |
| Directionality for Alphacore Goertz MI 2 cable? Hi Salby,Goertz offers free parts for a Zoble upon request, due to the low impedence and very high capacitance Goertz cables can cause a multiplicity of problems with some amps. Zobles should clear all that up, if this is your problem. Goertz are ... | |
| Review: Acoustat Trans Nova Twin 200 Amplifier Hi Ferrari,Thanks, poor memory I guess.. I believe Van Alstine did the phono sectin design for several of the Acoustat preamps, but as far as I know had no input into the amps. | |
| Adcom or Creek? Hi Josh,I would not bother with the Art DI/O. I tried one and Boulder Cable did all they could do to it, but it was pretty unimpressive. One of the late 80 Sony ES top of the line single CDP's will give you better sound, but if you are going that ... | |
| Adcom or Creek? Hi Josh,It all depends upon funds. If funds are tight, I would never recommend tubes. You can get a nice old Perreaux SM-2 preamp for a few dollars, replace the 2 modular bridge rectifiers with Freds, the other diodes in the power supply with low ... | |
| What are your thoughts on the Dragon tape deck? Sank says he is an "Authorised Servicer" because he is NOT an Authorized servicer, I checked with Nak, he apparently mis-spells Authorized to mislead people, because he knows it is mis-spelled, I told him. Perhaps he also hopes it will help him to... | |
| Adcom or Creek? Hi Joe,If you want the most bang for the buck, Adcom is a great place to start. Until recently, their unmoded gear has been a bit less than impressive, items like the GCD-750, GFP-750, and the 5802 amp have changed that. These too need mods to rea... | |
| Review: New York Audio Labs Minuet in Tube preamp I'd recommend Stan Warren of Supermods. He is prompt, knows his stuff, he is the S in PS Audio, not sure why he left, I think it may have been family related. Then he started Superphon, grew tired of manufacturing, sold to Audio Advisor, who did n... | |
| Anyone heard speakers by Stephen Sank. Pic of In my opinion, I would only recommend him to people I wanted tormented. He honors his 90 day guarantee if and when he wants to, he sent an amp back to me that was worse then when it was sent, and was tardy doing so. He will not repair it, so I'll ... | |
| Review: New York Audio Labs Minuet in Tube preamp After other events, I have to say that I would not recommend Mr. Sank to anyone. | |
| Review: New York Audio Labs Minuet in Tube preamp I am forced, due to experiance and feedback from others, to most strongly urge that if you want Mr. Sank to mod your preamp, amp, or other gear, that you buy and send him the parts, and pay him when the gear is returned by going C.O.D. He has prom... | |
| How old is too old ?.... Sean, Sean, Sean, why did you not tell him to replace the coils with Alpha-Core and any resistors will Mills as well as the caps with AudioCap Thetas? The speakers will be FAR more transparent and things that were a little muddy before should be v... | |
| Review: Acoustat Trans Nova Twin 200 Amplifier Hi Ferrari,Great review, thanks! The Acoustat Trans-Nova Twin 200 was a Hafler design, and I believe was manufactured for them by David Hafler. Thus it is an improvement over the DH-500. One of the things that made it so great was the capacitance,... | |
| Spectral DMC 12, 20 or 30 preamp? Hi Robert,If it is going to cost anything in the area of $2,500.00 I'd forget the Spectral and find a used NYAL Minuet in A, send it to Stephen Sank, and be perpared for a 6 to 8 month wait while he works some serious magic on it.... I have heard ... |