ltmandella
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| Best Tube Amp for High Sensitivity Speakers: 45, PX25, or 300B? There is a 300B based OTL amp available in kit form. If you don't want to build it, announce on the manufacturer's forum that you would like someone to build it for you. You will have to compensate the builder but it is the best 300B amp money c... | |
| Sharing SACDs I would add that I was around when cassette tapes and portable tape players were invented. The record companies when crazy, even testifying before Congress how taping of music from the radio, or dubbing from records, would completely decimate and... | |
| Sharing SACDs All ripping is illegal. Doesn't matter owner or anyone else. | |
| Suggestions for Phono Preamp The rich Saudis will scoff at spending less than $1000 on a phono preamp, but you really should give the IFI phono preamp a trial. It has EXTERNAL switches for gain settings for MM and MC cartridges of various output levels. I tried it with a mid... | |
| mcintosh mc-462 @roxy54 or any less? | |
| How To Keep Cat Off Stereo Equipment? trade your cat for a rabbit. rabbies are as smart as tabbies. just as clean. | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps Reference3A DeCapoI. No crossover electronics that waste power. Just a high pass cap for the tweeter, The Midwoofer is allowed to roll off naturally. Relatively large cabinet for a stand speaker. And the midwoofer also is relatively large. B... | |
| Fee for home audition I think it makes sense that the dealer does not want to "loan" you the unit, even with CC hold. The problem is that you could damage the unit, possibly not even realizing it. Or realizing it but then not wanting to buy the unit. The headaches w... | |
| going from tube preamp to solid state I would do it just on principle. What principle is that you may ask? The principal of the boiling frog. Tubes degrade over time. SS much, much less so. I own Tube and SS equipment; amps and preamps. Every few months I will switch between S... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs I commend your effort to try the experiment. Given the tiny scale of weight we are interested in, I think this experiment is impossible to do reliably without very expensive lab equipment and carefully conducted in a controlled lab environment...... | |
| streaming and audiophile stereo Any poorly performing link in the chain of reproduction can have detrimental effect on fidelity and listening enjoyment. Having said that, there is no guarantee that more $$ spent on one component type over another will be worth the money. I t... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? Complex musical passages can be a challenge for some systems and environments. To succeed with such music: 1: Your system must not be "power" starved. It needs gobs of power adequate to control the requirements of the particular speakers in use. ... | |
| Qobuz hell I had a different dissatisfaction with QOBUZ which caused me to cancel. The cancellation worked fine for me. I wonder, could you have been close in time to the start of a new month's subscription, and there is some time difference issue consider... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? Ultrasonic is head and shoulders above any other method. I previously used Recor Doctor vacuum with wet wash. But it is unbelievable how quiet my LPs became after ultrasonic. Ultrasonic even removed a lot of vinyl scraps from the grooves of bra... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I live in the desert. Burning up in the summer and cold as a witches tit in the winter. My class A and tube amps collect dust in the summer. Even my class A/B Quad 909 runs too hot to run for the summer here. So Class D in the summer, Class A ... |