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| McIntosh Mc202 or Conrad Johnson MF2300a amp? The Mac will give you a slightly more defined sound but either will give you a musical style presentation. The Mac I think sounds a bit more dynamic as well if that is important. | |
| Power Cables - Which component first? Just to overemphasize the point. No one can predict with any degree of certainty, which cord will sound best, or make the biggest improvement in your system. For me I think it was the PC to the CDP but in truth the dedicated line I had put in made... | |
| Audiogon sellers, please stop and read this thread Perhaps we ought not be so passive. Why not try to actually get these scum arrested by reporting them to the apprpriate authority. I believe interstate internet sales are actually policed by the Postmaster General's office. I am unsure if there ar... | |
| Compact Disc as a format I agree that the CD will survive in some form. My hunch is the due to their more durable nature and their small size that they will be around for some time. It is knd or ironic that as a medium starts to decline in popularity the playback systems ... | |
| Amp design logic You can't turn a Volkswagon into Bugatti, but you can alter/modify cars to excel at specific purposes. I think it is obvious that cars used in many races are based upon street models but have many parts changed/exchanged to upgrade performance. Th... | |
| Ever heard of, any opinions on, these speakers? They are made in China. I read the "about us" statement. The usual all designed here in Canada with completely unique parts....but manufactured in CHINA. As far as buying them goes they apppear to be big enough to support the product and nowadays ... | |
| Amp design logic So the parts (I am guessing) are 10% and a retailer marks up double in most cases. How much is the manufacturers and distributors profit? Isn't overhead part of construction costs? | |
| Cd player with a good hi-fi headphone output Your best bet is to ask on "Head-Fi.org" many expert "can" aficianodos are there. My own experience is that the headphone output circuit on a CD player, seems any afterthought and not an important feature. I own a now disgraced but really incredib... | |
| vibration counter weight I also endorse EdenSound as an excellent source of custom brass at a very reasonable price. Give hime a call with the specs.BTW Yes you can still buy lead but don't let your kids chew it. Look up lead metal sheet and you find it comes in many form... | |
| Amp design logic The price of anything is always what someone is willing to pay for it. A $50K amp that has never been sold is not worth $50K, it is really quite simple.OTOH some of the "best" parts prices (called components by manufacturers BTW) are higher than y... | |
| Jolida jd-502p I think Sovtek 12AX7 LPS tubes are "curent" production. In any event I consider them as current products. I know some are now speaking the virtues of Russian Old stock. | |
| using 2 centers as mains Will you get "Phantom Mono" sound?I can't figure out why running 2 center speakers will use less tube life than using 2 other relatively high sensivity low reactance speakers. I guess that you are running a powered sub because center speakers don'... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Why are so many speakers built with woofer arrays/types that are 4 ohm or less? Is it that hard to make speakers with high low end impedances? That said, I own JM Focal that have less than 4 Ohm minimum impedance and drive them with 78 wpc Tube Mo... | |
| Info on jbl paragon I would like to add to the ideas that 1. The drivers need to be original and clean. In particular the 375 compression driver and it's horn needs to be in very good unaltered shape . 2. Most collectors really think of condition as a very critical m... | |
| ARC SP-6 Warmup time I own a modded 6-B which never took more than a minute or so. When I first glanced at the topic, I thought No the tone of my ARC 6-B was always on the colder, analytic side, and couldn't be warmed up by my usual tube rolls LOL! |