marakanetz
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| Is there a Guide Available to Grading LP's. There is a Goldmine standard on grading records. Basically it sais that if the record doesn't skip it's good otherwise it's trash.Mint means new or unplayed.Near-mint looks like new plays like new but "doesn't feel like new"VG+ looks barely used a... | |
| Which amplifier??? if sell your preamp you can stretch o plinius 8100 or 8200 one of the integrated amps(8200 is with phono). they have a large margin working in class A and sound tubey and musical in midrange far more musical than DNA1. | |
| Ratio of Subwoofer wattage to main amp... Avantgarde speakers truly represent the best bi-amplified speaker combo with active woofers. It's recommended to drive them with 10...20W/ch mid to highs amp and the sub amp is 150W/side.So far I haven't heard any bi-amplified system that can outp... | |
| how old is too old when buying speakers? speakers that have a good quality cabinets can never get old.drivers are replacable even on some of them you can replace just a voice coil on older models if the driver surface is still stiff.thiels are probably the oldest descent speakers out the... | |
| What Tube Amp Looks Coolest? Viva indeed! | |
| Buried treasures you've forgotten? Huh, The Beatles is now a burried treasure for me. I was driven by the ambitions and Zep...s turned me on much better than Beatles or Stones and since that time Beatles are the buried treasure for me. Zep...s someway can be also added to that cate... | |
| Different cable lengths for biwiring well, resistance in this case is negligable especially in case with bi-wiring. the capacitance is already increased and i assume that your amp can handle a large capacitance loads(probably direct-coupled SS amp). thus don't sweat to trim your wire... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? I heard many horn speakers and I can say they're all joke EXCEPT Avantgarde, but they consider to be not full-horn speakers except Trios that cost $50k at least, but even with no woofers go down to 32hz flat.Blw, you might not believe but you can ... | |
| Avantgarde's are Great but Bass Integration? I listened yesterday Unos and newest SOLOs. The SOLOs are active monitors simply amazed me with excellent bass compared to Unos and tight organized sound with Capitole-2/Placette...I was actually about to audition UNOs and listened to them more th... | |
| What are the "Must have" LP's? All of CAN and its members, all of VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and PETE HAMMILL solos, all of PAT METHENY, all of KING CRIMSON and its members, all of FOCUS and YAN AKKERMAN, all of PIERRE MOERLEN, all of PEKKA POHJOLA, all of DAVID SYLVIAN, FZ JAZZ F... | |
| What's My Problem? Used Vandy 1b or 1c can be the same price as your new NHT but they can work great with weak and low-powered amps due to the stable impedance. Also for the vertually same amount of funds you can change for small Creek integrated to replace your sep... | |
| How important is speaker positioning?My experience ...no need to shop at circuit city or best buy. if you're talented enough you can brew the speaker that suits only your room with cheap drivers that will blow 10x spent for the factory ones. saw the professional acoustic engineer's artwork myself ... | |
| Amplifier Hum In addition to kr...'s comments, I can add that the power line influence is likely act on tubes but under certain conditions can act on transistors as well. So make also sure that your amp is not standing next to the AC outlet; check AC outlet for... | |
| Speaker break in period DON'T TAKE MY PREVIOUS POST REAL SERIOUSELY since if you pass an enormous signal you might damage or over-stress the voice-coil. Over-stressed voice coil(i.e. with damaged or deformed chrystalic structure) will permanently revoke any of your break... | |
| Lullabies, Anyone? Chick Corea's "Children Songs" solo album. |