lucky_doggg7
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| Budget High Current Power Cords I'll throw my selection in the hat...Parts Connexion, or the old Sonic Frontiers as it was called back in the day. They make a cord that seems good - now, it's NOT Nordost Odin or Valhalla good, but for price they sold it to me for, yeah, it's go... | |
| Looking for Speaker Input Focal Sopras: twin 8 inch woofers; I'm guessing deep bass performance is your issue, as this speaker I'm guessing plays flat down to the low to mid 40-ish hz range or so. It might play deeper but at -3 dB or more; that's probably adequate for mos... | |
| Aged components / service!? For front ends, here in Cali, a well known outfit is George Meyer AV in the Los Angeles area; I seem to recall they are an authorized Mark Levinson, and Krell repair center. As for other service centers, a good reference is on the V-Cap website, ... | |
| How to tell if Raidho ribbon tweeter is damaged? "retightened by heat gun" Yikes! So it's just like tightening the mylar skin on RC balsa airplanes then - right? The benefit of RC airplanes, when you screw up, you just cut another piece and heat tack it on; on a $10K speaker, eeeeh, embarking... | |
| Amp craftmanship/Quality In my first "nice" system which consists of a Pass Labs X0.2 3-box arrangement front end, and a pair of Aleph 1.2 mono's (200 wpc Class A), plus a Nakamichi Dragon CD Changer, which are all about 20 years old now; all of my equipment runs like a t... | |
| Best Way To Maximize Preamp Tube Life? Man, a fella can learn a thing or two off this forum. If you don't want to worry about tubes forever, see if you can home audition a Pass Labs preamp, which has that inviting midrange bloom, smoothness of a tube amp, and that lit from within soun... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics Less than 30 posts... Hmmm :(Tweaks... There is no doubt that the core components are the foundation of a system. Is there still something that is locked away in the core components that can be exposed? I say yes. And to what degree, I say a... | |
| The smallest tube amp Man, that little devil is expensive. | |
| How long does Class A have? I seem to notice that equipment in the "hifi" world that sounds good, tends to stick around for a long time. Vinyl records with the right combo of equipment sounds good, and fill that niche for carrying on the torch of nostalgia. Tube amps survi... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Before you drop some serious coin on the ability to stream, as a less expensive solution, how about this bluetooth streaming device from McIntosh... This MB20 looks cool. https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/media-streamers/MB20Looks like the p... | |
| D’agostino preamp - unfortunate its SS? D.A. audio equipment and tube sound…. Hmmmm…. I’m guessing this sounds fast, deep bass, forward, with midrange bloom so to speak…. In my limited experience, this would be something like any big Krell amp, connected to some big Apogee speakers, wit... | |
| What's your dream speaker? Let's see here... broken into two categories, here goes: 1. Old School - Von Schweikert VR-10 Mk II2. New School - Von Schweikert Ultra 11 | |
| As you have moved on, are there any items you remember fondly...or most fondly? Sonic Frontiers Power 3 Mono Amps, 220 WPC - Pretty awesomeJM Lab Mini Utopia - My first pair, woah... Much better than KEF Ref 1sAdcom GFP-750 Preamp - It was pretty good...Sonic Frontiers Line 2 - Much better than Adcom...Pass Labs Aleph 5 - My... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? When I think Class D, I automatically think of the good stuff like Devialet, Linn Amps, and Bryston (sp?) amps. I have a very nice pair of Audio Research DS450M monos that I really like. These are fairly powerful, meaning 450 wpc into 8 and 650 ... | |
| Class A amplifiers Vintage amps are cool. I listened to my first Levinson ML9 (100 wpc, Class A) connected to a monster sized pair of Apogee flat panel speakers. Woooweee, that amp and those speakers were a match made in heaven. The thing about though is that an ... |