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| recommendation for power cables for Gryphon amp I thought Gryphon had no US distributor. How do you buy them ? Manufacturer direct? How do you audition them even more importantly? I think it is always helpful to see which cords they use at shows and demos, but don't recall them being in the US ... | |
| What is a decent first portable player ? Even though you got some serious replys I would pose the question over on Hed-Fi.org. That is the place where portable audio is a huge area of interest. It competes only with home based headphone audio. | |
| Looking to get back into Vinyl. I am still enamored of my plain jane VPI Scout/ JMW Mem 9 with a Dyna 20x HO and Graham Amp 2 SE phono stage. The whole set up now must be used unless they are still making the Scout II, will cost well under $2K. It is a fabulous starter rig for a... | |
| Impact of low quality analog RCA interconnects Smoe cables can work to reduce sibilance. All you need to do is search for warm sounding cable using the search feature of the forums. That said the problem of sibilance is more likely a problem with your electronics and tweeter type. In paricular... | |
| Anyone tried changing OPAMPS in Music Hall A25.2? Evidently the Australian Burson company of DAC fame makes modified Op amps are the rollable into MH. These are expensive but are reported to be incredible. | |
| Is there better amp for bass then Cary Rocket 88 Michael I strongly agree with you. My SS phono stage into my tube pre to tube amps pumps out incredibly rich bass. I would entertain the use of an SS pre myself but I absolutely love the imaging that my modded little AE-3 AES preamp makes. It is m... | |
| why do my AR9's sound so lousy? Did they ever sound good? It reminds me of the joke. "Dr. will I be able to play piano after the operation" " I don't know did you play piano before"?I agree with the notion of possibly using the wrong woofers throwing the crossover off and/or jus... | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights DgarretsonI am curious about some of your tone arm parameters. I am not suggesting that you are wrong I simply am an ignorant analog novice trying to learn something. Why can't the arm wands be effectively damped to stop resonance. Is it because d... | |
| Tubes to Watts Ratio I am sure that Rodger Modjeski (sp?) of RAM tubes and RM amps fame can give you an idea. Some of his amps seem to produce very few watts per tube while other an astonishing number of watts per tube. I think there are some SS in the cascode of ampl... | |
| Best sounding PC for adudio may vary It would be great to have a real production PC sonics shootout. The PCs would have to be capable of working as regular PCs not just servers. | |
| tube rolling for Cayin A-50T? If it uses an EL34 then you can use a 6CA7 and probably a KT77. The only new production 6CA7 that is well recieved is the Electro Harmonix "Fat Bottle". I use this tube myself and it works remarkably well in my Opera Consonance Cyber 800 Monoblock... | |
| Budgeting for 2011 Music and Gear I hope to sell some stuff so -66.6% gear and + 33.3% music live and mostly recorded. | |
| Detail Magnifiers by Econotweek The web site says you have to use them for a while, and then take them off, to hear how much they do. They say it is like having a heavy woolen Burka lifted from in front of your speakers. All kidding aside they are RC networks which do have a pos... | |
| 12ax7 tubes can be enterchanged with xxx tubes? Twinbugles would you kindly share where it was that you found $5 12AX7s US made in the 1960s. I would like to expand my search to places offering such bargains. Can you Help me out? If they also have RCA 1950s triple mica blackplate 5751s for a si... | |
| Amplifier for Magnepan 20.1s Tubes are not glamourous or for show in my systems. I was a reluctant convert to tubes for my main rig. Once I did change over to tubes my system was a whole new animal and I loved it.Finally at last... tubes at last, thank G almighty, tubes at last! |