marakanetz
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| To bridge or not to bridge.... Do you mean that your 4B-st were clipping??? With what speakers???Dedicated monoblocks will definitely do the job better than bridged amplifier.If you somewhay sacrifice quantity over the quality you won't go too far away towards higher budjet ove... | |
| LONG LIVE THE KING There is a nice abstraction for THE KING created by Robert Fripp(a guitarist of King Crimson) with the same name as title of this thread.I would now just think of THE KING listening to this album. | |
| Has your system changed the music you listen to? So, most of ya folks "transformed" into jazz becase:a)jazz recordings have a good quality and sound great;b)classical large-orchestral music is too expencive to bring it to the level of pleasant reproduction or even i'd say nearly impossible;c)roc... | |
| How often do you upgrade your other passions? ooohhh! I almost forgot I love BEER and explore every time extra-ordinary bars that actually produce their own beer or brew on the premises under the trademarks of famous european beer brewers. Getting to the Manhattan with public transportation g... | |
| Has your system changed the music you listen to? ...some music tastes change but virtually speaking location where I find myself in the music never changes. I imagine that music in general is some kind-of array with certain laws and sometimes exceptions that everyone whether one wants or not def... | |
| How often do you upgrade your other passions? Besides an audio habbit, I enjoy cooking and despite doing it less often than my wife(due to the lack of time) I have all home-professional cooking equipment and for "critical" gourmet dinners none in my family can compete. I'm very skeptical in t... | |
| Audiogon Hall of Fame? And the nominees are... Why don't we folks give such opportunity to judge Audiogon on who is the best?We're all humans communicating between each other here and everyone of us has our own opinion that will realy flod this thread in dissorganized way with our own judgemen... | |
| Transformer coupled / Capacitor coupled Peter, what would you say on passive transformer-coupled preamp? Is it possible?Did you also research Manley 300B preamp? I'm not sure about coupling transformers but it definitely used power output tubes. I was stupid not to ask EveAnna if they c... | |
| Pop-free fm stations. I forgot to mention that both of above said stations have extreamly weak signal but I must admit that my appartment is pretty high since the building is located at the top of the hill. | |
| Ok, so what does Phase Inversion actually do?? Pardon to continue asking question: Can phase inversion cancel bass freequencies if you use mono woofer? | |
| Question on using bi-amp... if i had bat i would definitely contact viktor that is always helps either thorugh e-mail or phone. please make a note that bat units is very costly $$$ to fix! you can also buy a pair of bat monos(usually sells cheaper per each than one stereo am... | |
| Brush/scrubbing ideas for VPI 16.5 record cleaner. Somehow I managed to use VPI for even stained and garage-acquired vinyls that can now easily can be graded VG.I simply did a few cleaning cycles and it does the job. | |
| Ok, so what does Phase Inversion actually do?? in the professional industry you use not only speakers but microphones as well. if the both speakers in phase thay will interact with microphone adding the signal to each-other and create a wisstling or hum. that's where you realy need the phase i... | |
| Does your system sound better in the winter? the only thing i know that if outside on the street is 100 i have to turn on A/C and despite i have quite quiet model it's still noisy and swallows details which doesn't happen in winter time. in the winter time i used to have a very noisy heater ... | |
| When it's to good to be true? when you go to spain watch your pockets and bags. |