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Responses from lou_setriodes
| Need to learn about Audio Research The late Roger Modjeski (of Music Reference & Beveridge fame) started out as a tech before either of those companies existed. He said he always hated working on ARC gear. It was always way over engineered and difficult to work on. YMMV, but... | |
| Rank choice of three turntables Price, distance, coolness factor, what are your priorities? Is it being shipped or are you picking it up? Are we talking just the TT or complete table with plinth, tonearm, and cartridge? For me, at this stage of the game (I’m 64), if I went w... | |
| Is a Sophia Electric Baby & Yarland FV-34C MkIV the same amp internally? Bummer, was hoping and thought the tubes in the SE Baby was the Russian military version of an EL84. They are probably built in the same factory since the amps clearly resemble each other | |
| What's the weakest link in my stereo set up? I live in a townhome, so limited on space. I live in a small apartment and have similar limited placement issues. I have a large LP collection (housed in IKEA Expedit) and recently moved the LPs out of the listening room to a small bedroom in place of a smaller IKEA Kallax and lower speak... | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Here’s a few from the 80’s: 1. “She said Shut up!” (Voices Carry by Til Tuesday) 2. “Look out for the Bikini Whale!” (Rock Lobster by B52’s) 3. “Shout!” (In a Big Country by Big Country) | |
| I need a little help from a UK, German, Greek or Israel member. I live in Israel, I can send them a message for you. But my thinking is that if they only accept messages from those 4 countries, perhaps they might only wish to ship to those 4 countries? Send me a private message with their information and wha... | |
| Korneff or similar 45 Alan used to sell tubes on eBay and a good friend of his, a retired long time McIntosh engineer, from time to time would make beautiful custom amps mods from organ amps. Jim Edmunds I think his name was, and about 15 years ago or so, I bought an a... | |
| Korneff or similar 45 Once upon a time I owned a very early Jeff Korneff 6BQ5 SE amp that was amazing. Years later, when it came time to sell it, I was in contact with Jeff Korneff and he asked me not to describe it as a Korneff amp, but as an early Jeff Korneff desig... | |
| Help me identify an amp Carlsbad2 - Absolutely Not!!! Never ever do that with vintage tube gear unless you want to risk replacing an expensive and hard to find transformer. Bring up the voltage slowly on a variac is the right thing to do. so it may be a GSI modified... | |
| Speaker List narrowed down… @grislybutter - apparently so :) @aj523 - I’m not shaming anyone here, your doing that all by yourself. More power to you that you can spend $25K on speakers, I think that’s great. Likewise, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what I said... | |
| Speaker List narrowed down… $25K is a lot of $$$ for speakers. You could buy a great pair of used speakers for much much less and commission someone to refinish them in high gloss white and they would look brand new. | |
| Personal Turntable Evolution Updated Turntable Journey: 1. Dual 1225 2. Bang & Olufsen RX w/MMC5 cartridge 3. Denon DP59L 4. Rega Planar 3 with Accutex MM cartridge 5. Kenwood KD-5070 w/Audio Technica cartridge 6. Harman Kardon T45 w/Ortofon OA-30 cartridge 7. Thorens TD... | |
| Amps that don’t impersonate space heaters. Go check out Derek Sanderson’s Fleawatt amps, you’ll be very surprised. When I A/B’d it against a 6B4G SET amp, I had trouble justifying tubes, it just made no sense in running tubes when I listened to it…. | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions Just checked quickly on US Audiomart and for about $1000-1200 you could get: 1. A Tandberg stack - amp & preamp; 2. Aragon 2004 & 24K preamp; 3. Muse 100 amp & Morrison Elad preamp; 4. B&K M200 monos, Threshold CAS2 or Mona... | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions If it were me, (and admittedly I am not familiar with all the different upgrades of Vandersteen 2CI, 2CE, etc), I would look to upgrade both electronics and speakers and buy used as you can save quite a bundle on used gear. The Adcom GFA2 is an o... |