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| Have you ever got emotionally attached I still own my Father's JBL C38 Signatures speakers with the 030 package (D -130 extended range and 075 tweeters N-2400 X-over). One was bought the year I was born the other a year later when stereo became common. I will never part with them. They... | |
| Vibration control devices for EMM CDSA. That moon gel pad looks like a softer version of the Sorbothane footers by Herbies. The Older Sorbothane footers can support a piece of equipment. These moon gels can only be applied to the surface. As you say they look like a useful accessory esp... | |
| Vibration control devices for EMM CDSA. Heavy brass footers like the "fat bastards" that were made by Edensound an Agoner. I don't know if he still makes them. If you use the heavy footers on a platform that itself rests on viscoelastic foam or has dynamat affixed to it the dampening im... | |
| Spending on dac vs amp Everyone seems to have forgotten that the price of HI End gear doesn't always correlate with better sound. In other words you don't always get what you pay for in this hobby. There are plenty of superb sounding "Giant Killers" around. I must empha... | |
| Cueing/Rega RP1w/Bias 2 cartridge Instead of lowering the anti skate just increase the skate. | |
| Adding tubes to SS system-Tube Preamp Amp or Int? I know that for me there was no contest. The tube power amp provided the tube magic . I had tried the tube front end solutions but none of them did what the tube power amps did. Not a tube preamp, nor a tubed CD, player could came close to the eff... | |
| Rack : I need your help I would stay away from glass it can be a reflecting surface or worse tintinabulate on you. The multi layer composites however have been intuitively appealing and birch plywood is a welded multi layered wood. | |
| Kappa 9 vs Martin Logan Quest Z RrogMy point is that he has an exceptional ear for sound and has heard most speakers including I expect ML. Thus he would be a good source for any analysis and a good advisor for helping to choose the "right" speaker for Mickey44. Not that anyone ... | |
| Arcam FMJ P7 or Parasound Halo A51? Wow whats up with all that heat sink. How many bi-polar devices are on each one I wonder. You can't see anything except the 2 toroids and heatsink. | |
| Kappa 9 vs Martin Logan Quest Z In defense of my statement about Bill, he has worked on probably every major speaker marketed in this country his knowledge is comprehensive. He has been doing speaker repair and light modification with a perfectionist skill for listening as well ... | |
| Cables for high efficiency speakers? I would also add a vote for TRS cables by Coincident I have heard them on Coincident speakers and they are excellent at retrieving low level detail and have excellent dynamic capability. I am not sure what the recipe is in terms of the wire's meta... | |
| "American Sound" Speakers Viridian Thanks for your endorsement! | |
| Best Integrated, period. A Jadis DA 60 with rolled input tubes. I use the usual best 5751 period which is th PITA to get triple mica blackplate Sylvania. And for the 12AU7s I have yet to find anything that comes close to the Amperex Heerlen only early 1960s late 1950s lon... | |
| Kappa 9 vs Martin Logan Quest Z The difference between the two would probably be best know to Bill LeGall of Miller Sound. He is truly a specialist in Infinity speakers and has worked on and improved numerous Kappa 9s. He is Wlegall on Agon just read his feedback. You may be abl... | |
| Cables for high efficiency speakers? Well if you want the best chance of getting all the detail and treble energy your system can deliver, than the best objectively measured conductor is indeed silver. If so I can recommend a medium priced pure silver cable by Homegrown the Silver La... |