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| DIY Speaker wire I don't remember the exact guage but they were easy enough to braid (not really easy they were kinda stiff green jacketed). Just like Grannyring I used 3 insulated solid core wires in each braided leg for the speakers one braid for pos one for neg... | |
| need amp for Prima Luna Prologue 3 preamp If you can get the McCormack more power to you.My thoughts drift to McIntosh power amps, you would be forced get an older one with about 200 wpc. You might be able to find one on your price range. Yes it would be a vintage amp but if you buy from ... | |
| Cd player repair in San Diego You will be lucky if it is just dust. "Transports are the first thing to fail on a CD player and are frequently the death sentence". I was stunned when I was told that about a well worn Jolida I had bought and later on Audio Aero Prima I really gr... | |
| rear firing tweeters.... I meant VR-2 my mistake and apology. It does have a volume potentiometer as mentioned above, but it's functional range is very limited and on the low side. | |
| interconnect brand/model attributes???? Let me be the first to say nay to the cost of certain cables. There you have it a cable naysayer albeit cost related, not a functional nay. | |
| Hafler DH200 sounds scratchy /static Anything old with caps is subject to cap failures. Take it to a tech and see if everything is up to spec. | |
| DIY Speaker wire I have used connecting wire as speaker cable which was simgle stranded heavy guage copper that I used 3 to makes a braid. They worked really well,- impurities and all. I eventually only used them as jumpers, then they got replaced by expensive Car... | |
| Class A amps or Class D??: Which sounds better?? Class A has been preferred over all other classes by the the majority of listeners over a very long run and seems likely to be preferred in the fututre. | |
| Gain for HO MC or MM cartridge? I use a HO MC Dynevector20X with a Graham amp 2SE for MM or HO MC. My results are fabulous and leave me wanting for nothing. I think the carts output is about 2.5 MV and the phono stage gain is about 40 DB but look it up for exact numbers. | |
| rear firing tweeters.... I have a pair of VS2 Von Scheickerts which do have an "ambience tweeter/?high midrange " driver. It does see to add space to the sound but not much more so than a good tube output power amp qould ( I use both). It doesn't seem to hurt that's for s... | |
| Spendors comparable to Harbeth C7ES3? I think that many of the non e-stat quads are made with the same sensibility in mind. I do very strongly recommend that to listen to the Harbeth's to be certain that what you've heard about them and what you will hear from them are indeed almost t... | |
| 4 ohm or 8 ohm tap on old tube amps? I tried the different outlet taps on my tube amps with the speakers I was going to use and simply listened for the sound I liked best. It has worked out very well in a couple of different, amp/speaker combinations, without damage to amp or speaker... | |
| Best speakers to "abuse" for around $2k ? Another vote for Cerwin Vega. I am sure that there are plenty of speakers that can easily match the CW's SPLs, I own Klipsch La Scalas but few wil keep the party really thumping in the era before sub woofers the way Cerwin Vegas did, those were th... | |
| Best speakers to "abuse" for around $2k ? Another vote for Cerwin Vega. I am sure that there are plenty of speakers that can easily match the CW's SPLs, I own Klipsch La Scalas that can get really loud but few will keep the party really thumping in the era before sub woofers the way Cerwi... | |
| CDP or DAC/Transport for $1300 new? That is what happens to CD players I was told much to my amazement with an Audio Aero Prima which I really liked and had tweaked to suit my taste. I was told "Well you have to toss it now the repairs are worth what the player cast" I was really bu... |