marakanetz
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| Avanti III or Joseph audio Pearl ? The new Willson Watt 7 will blow them both with ease. You need some juice to throw there though. These guys can sound quiet and can sound very loud and have stable impedance comparing to JM Lab Utopias. | |
| VTL Transformer Up-Grades, Worth It? First of all as far as I know that the signature transformer upgrade is not available on all VTL models. It is available only on latest models starting from MB185 or greater. I recently spoke with Bea from VTL on that issue. | |
| Moving coil cartridge advice needed What about Shelter901?It can fall in your range with a-bit more if you order directly from Japan or Hong-Kong... | |
| A better matched amp for my Totem Speakers? i use vtl MB100 that I bought used for 1200 to drive totem forest speakers...i was also auditioning them with pathos twin towers that have only 35W/ch and it was also great.totem speakers despite their lack of efficiency can be driven with less po... | |
| Do new tubes undergo break-in like other devices? here is my conclusion...tubes do not break-in they start to work out their life time just from the moment you turn your amp(s) on. within the time to the end of tube life tubes sound dull and mushy and certainly need to be replaced. next thing you... | |
| What is the worst recorded CD you have? i can only present the largest comparison between cd and vinyl that is so obvious on king crimson's "islands" album that sounds so great on vinyl and so poor on cd. | |
| When to bi-wire? I've just had to my consideration an unsuccessfull bi-wire.I don't know when can I stop experimenting but I lost the details mixing Analysis+ 12 with VanDenHul CV125H. I previousely used only VanDenHul unterminated with wires threaded through the ... | |
| Where does your user name come from? This is actually a cool thread!My user name is my nick-name that is completely abstract and can be interpreted with huge bunch of definitions. Since definitions for this nick name is so many I now consider my user-name abstract and give members an... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? SACD equipment is made the way that SACD sounds better but in reality good CD-player can do much better than SACD player so this test for golden ears as absolutely irrelevant.If you ask me if I ever put my golden ears to the test I would say no si... | |
| Cable directionality And another cable question to Orbeck:How long it's needed to take off the statics from the dielectric if it's all we need to break-in the cable?I would estimate it to tenths fractions of the second or even less... | |
| Cable directionality I'm glad to hear the vast word from Audioengr!I might add that conductors inside the cables have a certain % of impurities that have mostly semi-conductive structure; there are some dielectrical micro-structures as well. All these components might... | |
| System for weekly traveller to use in hotel room www.headphone.com will solve all your issues. there is no compact and portable system works better than a nice headphone setup. | |
| Tube Amp Ventilation? C.J. has tube cages to hide them from animals and kids. I would not recommend to enclose the tube amp in any case since it will worm up the whole stand and the components arround it. To the amp itself it's beneficial to be hot and no ventilation t... | |
| Amplifier Fan Autospec,What sence does it make to cool off the tube amp??? | |
| Which components produce a convincing 3-D image? In general analogue components produce more convincing 3D image than digital. |