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marakanetz

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What's Wrong With My Cartridge/Setup?
Brian,Check load resistance on your tube phono pre. 
What's Wrong With My Cartridge/Setup?
You're most-probably using MM cartridge onto MC section or your load impedance of your phono is too low. 
Big Stupid Warm Speakers
Don't forget about Totem Wind used at arround $3600... 
Big Stupid Warm Speakers
I would suggest looking arround Martin Logan line especially those fully electro-static.Before they play they need to get WORM. 
Which amp is better suited for LP playback?
A follow-up similar question:What pen would suit best a Psychology majoring student of Columbia University?Also if he/she decides to minor in Anthropology which one is in that case? 
Zero feedback amps
There are a lot of tricks just to screw up your mind in terms of presence or abcense of global Negative Feedback in the amp.For example: Today's amplifiers give it or take must have low output impedance to drive today's speakers. They also must ha... 
best rock voices
1st comes Jack Bruce(truely a rock voice king!)2nd is Peter Hammil3rd is Peter Gabriel 
mixing tube and solid state amps
I passively bi-amp with VTL MB100 tubes on the top and Sunfire Symphonic Reference on the bottom.These amps are way out of gain match but I controll the gain of the Sunfire with professional ClearBock balanced line converter that I use to decrease... 
Bi-amping with no pre-outs
Eldartford,Receivers that have configured to use jumpers between pre-out and amp-in usually run with amp disconnected thus cannot be used in bi-amplification.The skillfull tech should just connect a pair of RCA without disconnecting an input to th... 
FedEx, and HELL VTL to the rescue
I was also ammong the ones falling in love with VTL's oriental lady:-) 
Jazz Recs for Classical Music Fan - Challenging
Rob It's me who's totally abstract or even 'off the wall' sunk onto the underground staff but the list I gave you isn't abstact and has lots in common with classical music.Unfortunally you less likely will get these at BMG for $2.99 sale... 
Rogue M-150 and Cremona Auditors
The question lies in your budget. Having bought from Mac I guess you will have no worse service than Rogue. Becides, larger name and probably the highest authority in high definition audio performance. I figured for myself that Mac is the last amp... 
Jazz Recs for Classical Music Fan - Challenging
One of my dear friends who lives in Israel plays professionally classical piano and had been granted a very large gift from God.She's very skeptic listening to jazz except when it comes to Chick Corea no matter whether it's acoustic or electric ba... 
Autoformer tech info is desired...
Ed, Thanks, I've got the point.Aball,If I had a buck I'd go for all Mac:-)No brainer, it's literally the best electronics! 
Possible Speaker Damage cause by Vinyl?
Most of the speakers can handle that but shurely to some degree you're overstressing the voice coil.Try not to forget to turn the volume down or mute or switch to different source before lifting or setting a styli.