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| Your homemade tweaks? Just one word viscoelastic. Like a tube in a signal chain insert anywhere and get the benefit. | |
| System Placement Question If your amp and CDP are kept to the side and your speakers can be pulled away from the wall and spread far apart from the radiator you have no problem. If OTOH the speakers still will actually get hot from the radiator then...You are stuck using t... | |
| Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player I suppose since a CD player relys on a digital format. The question will be more about how religious one is about the file type and it being identical regardless of where it is stored. Then as pointed out the analog output section becomes paramoun... | |
| Help a confused newbie build his first setup... You must go out and listen to speakers and amp combos. There are a few ways to do this. Bear in mind that what you like is correct for you and there is no one right sound. The options are going to a real 2 channel audio retailer with a good select... | |
| Preamp match for a mcIntosh 275 Hoe much do you want to spend? I would say that unless you can spend a lot more or can't spend as much that the AES ( Cary) AE-3 DJH Sig available from Upscale audio on sale new for about $1100 is one great line stage. It happens to use 6SN7s in t... | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights I can't understand what benefit completely decoupled counterwieghts could function. They would have to exert a force on the arm, in some way to be effective. I have to ask what the most ridgid structure would be? I understand the shorter the bette... | |
| What is a decent first portable player ? Oh my goodness my dyslexia fully exposed oops! | |
| recommendation for power cables for Gryphon amp Well if I can't be the electronics distributor can I import your cable line? I am thinking about a number of now orphaned Hi End Audio to represent as a group. Jadis need NA representation now as well. I am also thinking in getting a consortium to... | |
| Treble harshness - interconnects as culprits? There was a thread on this the other day. Get rid of the Radio Shack ICs and get the free ones that come with your oldest and cheapest CD or DVD player. If it sounds worse you know that is the problem.. The other way to approach this is to buy a v... | |
| Phone stage for AYON Triton advice pls Budget? SS or tube? how veratile? what Cartridge/s? which TT? etc. There are so many Phono stages to choose amongst you really need to give us more guidance than the amp that you are using. i haven't nencountered an amp with the wrong sensitivity ... | |
| Are there any good rock, blues ETC. SACD's ? The link refers you to various Amazon marketplaces so why not vist them directly. Also perhaps, big time ebay dealers, with good records ( an unitentional pun, but a SACD is not a record per se, it is a recording yes, and so on...yada... yada... y... | |
| EL34 in a 6550 amp? Some amps that take EL 34s and can also accomodate KT-88s KT-90s KT77s and of course the 6CA7. Some will tell you that even the auto biased amps require some manual biasing to do this. It certainly makes intuitive sense that different bias voltage... | |
| 12ax7 tubes can be enterchanged with xxx tubes? Thank you Twinbugles- I have heard of Hamfests but I am afraid they will peg me as an audio guy not a radio guy and jack up the prices. What do you do with all the odd tubes. I have bought lots like that in the past and don't have the heart or min... | |
| What is a decent first portable player ? sorry about miscapitalizing the url but I think they take the caps out anyway. Not the bypass caps. | |
| recommendation for power cables for Gryphon amp GryphonaudioIf you are in fact Gryphon could I be your distributor? I am currently not working. I am passionate about, love and know something about audio. All I need is a little start up money to put together a showroom/office, storage facilities... |