marakanetz
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| Musical Fidelity Buffer It's simply 100% inverting op-amp with tubes that eliminates distortions. It's beneficial for unstable components. Any IC or SS op-amp can do the same job except tubes bring its own pleasant previously mentioned coloration to the system.As to tech... | |
| When to get your amp up graded caps ??? I'm with Has2be, Wolf-Garcia and Liz. Macs would less-likely need 'upgrade' or change for the better components which will probably be the waste of time and money.If the time has come, you'll need to replace them with identical equivalents. To tes... | |
| Inexpensive Phono Cables Recommendations From phono to pre I'd recommend running balanced interconnects that will be beneficial and superior for analogue set up. Mogamy Gold series 10' microphone cable will be approx $40 each and $80 for pair.As to tonearm wire if you're savyy to rewire ... | |
| In the under $2500 category, diminishing returns? Forgot about integrated.Once you get introduced to W4S STI500, you'll realize that diminishing returns are almost at its best right there. | |
| Benchmark dac - why such diverging opinions? Very simple: Stereo magazines are commercial and being paid to advertise the product from the good side. The bad side is usually found on discusussions and blogs. | |
| In the under $2500 category, diminishing returns? For bellow a $1k Aragon 8008 300Wpc will drive'em near perfect. The rest of budget you can get sub and dive into nirvana. | |
| What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's? 80's for me all the way. | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner If it does change the sound than either power conditioner or components are designed bad. | |
| YouTube Favorites to share. don't want to copy a lot of URLS since I've had lots of tubing experience:Alessandro Penezzi, Brazilian Choro guitaristGoran Ivanovic and Andreas Kapsalis guitar duo | |
| Do Interconnects need to "warm up"? Bravo, Maestro WAG! LOL! | |
| Where R U????? Moved to Madison WI a year ago from NYC. Bigger Condo, bigger speakers, bigger hi-fi, bigger life. | |
| Do Interconnects need to "warm up"? Realistic isn't always cynical, but Synergistic research products are unrealistic for me. ROI is too small or nothing vs. Mogamy as an example. | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner Lissnr,In reality I can wage 5:1 that you will loose on blind testing. Whould you challange nuts in my hand? I'd like to see the flop! | |
| opinions on favorite cartridge I would with no problem use top of the line cartridges with GPCH phonostage. It's realy a winner in this business. | |
| Do Interconnects need to "warm up"? Chrisr,Make sure your measuring device handles magnitudes of 10 or more decimal positions. |