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| Musical Fidelity A300 Integrated Try Cardas cables in your system, get the Golden Reference, if you can swing it. Used Golden anything they make should add the mellow sound you seek and cool off your tweeters . Other than that you run into major structural changes in your system.... | |
| Power Cords: A Skeptic Looking to Dabble... Despite claims to the contrary let me be the 3rd to endorse Pangea, a lot of cable for a very reasonable price. I bought a Triode Wire cable with copper connectors (not plated) recently and like it very much but it wasn't cheap. I am also afraid o... | |
| W4S STI500 or MF A5.5 for Kef R500? You don't actually use all the power an amp can produce in excess of what your speakers can handle according to the manufacturer. So having too much power, is like having a 450 HP engine in your car, knowing the speed limits in your area would hav... | |
| Rogue Audio Cronus Question All that sais and it is usually referred to as cross talk there may be another potential problem to consider, which is just your phono pre picking up true RFI. I had a friend with that problem and one solution was to use a Faraday cage. I do think... | |
| classical newbie I was happy to see this thread topic because I have suddenly become drawn to classical music myself. I don't know if it is a product of aging like balding or thre disease du jour "low T".Lowrider 57 thanks for the recommendations, but I didn't und... | |
| Which used preamp for Halo A21, under $1,000? I was surprised by the YS audio preamps The prices were very reasonable. It appeared to be a 12AX7 design (not sure), I wondered which tubes needed to be changed. Although I put old stock tubes in my gear where ever it makes sense. | |
| Musical Fidelity A300 Integrated Are you sure you really want to biamp. I have never heard that before, about your speakers. Do the speakers sound good now? I owned a 308 integrated a few years ago, it is a powerful amp maybe you just want to try more power, with one amp. | |
| Thinking About A Change Have you actually heard the Legacy speakers? Why do you want them in particular? | |
| Integrated tube amp has no bass Cayin A50T It is the nature of the beast, its a 35 wpc tube amp in push pull and 16 wpc in triode. One thing you can do is check and be sure you are not in triode if you want to maximize bass. | |
| should i go old or stay new need help I bought a lot of older gear that is now called vintage (a ridiculous word use) and had plenty of trouble with it. By the time you figure out that this older stuff needs to be professionally refurbished with new electrolytic capacitors amongst oth... | |
| Wrong speakers If you are bummed by Theils treble with your SS output stage precision amp, I strongly recommend speakers with a very sweet "musical" top end. I own Focal 936s and would say they are too clinical for you but there is a pair on sale right now prett... | |
| Which used preamp for Halo A21, under $1,000? Do you want an SS pre or are you interested in tubes? | |
| Tube preamp question I don't know if Cary has balanced outputs but you already know you like the sound so that is logical. The other plus about Cary is that most of their preamps use 6SN7 tubes extensively. These tubes are readily available as Old Stock even true NOS.... | |
| Power Supply Options - Pre Amp and Power Amp I needed the help of electricians but I am no DIY type. A dedicated line is an electrical circuit that is used by your audio equipment only. The Idea is to ensure that no other outlets or appliances share that line. If you want to upgrade it to 20... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapter Dilemma Liz I believe that the less stuff in the signal path rule is pretty much accepted as a truth. I realize that it does represent a theory or tenet of a widely held belief system that many audio people ascribe to. I also know about your "tube buffer"... |