mechans
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| Tube Pre amp noise It certainly sounds like the tube preamp, but audible hiss is frequently from noisy tubes which you have ruled out. A tube preamp may have some low level hiss, I don't know what you can tolerate. Crackles and pops are never normal and thus the pre... | |
| easy way to make dipole Linaeums to monopole? Look for the "Black Dahlia" website I think that is where his speaker plans are. | |
| Psvane 845-HIFI or Shuguang 845B? I believe the Psvanes are made by Shuguang perhaps with tighter tolerances and QC for the "higher" quality Psvane is supposed to represent. I can't tell you however, with certainty, that the 2 845s you mentioned are identical electrically. | |
| Sota Sapphire & Lenco 75.. Better for whom? | |
| Roger LS 3/5A I have seen them for sale here and elsewhere from time to time. They are represented as real 11 Ohm Rogers LS3/5a. I don't doubt it, they were and are popular speakers with Audio people. | |
| How diverse is your musical taste? There is almost nothing aside from certain "ethnic" music I won't listen to. The question though is what do I mean by ethnic? I will keep it to myself for now. I should add that I am not a really knowledgable musicologist but always willing to learn. | |
| pure silver speaker wire Man that is a big chunk of silver. Something like that is going to cost a ton. I can only guess you are going to use it for a power cable? Is that right? | |
| Adcom GFA 5802 Upgrade You will hear the refrain that Magnepans perform better with as much power as you can give them. Or something to that effect. I am afraid a quality SS high current amp is going to cost more than $2K.Nonetheless there are certain amps that are know... | |
| Practicality of footers to isolate turntables. Which of the TMC products is the one you are referring to. I didn't see anything on their site with the name "active pneumatic table". Just curious, thanks. | |
| which are the best headshell wires ?? The wires you like the best. I would seriously only consider headshell lesds which have really good clips such as, silver over copper for instance, as for the wires themselves. I would think a very pure silver would be best followed by copper. The... | |
| Help needed to recover costs please If you tell them that you are willing to reveal their name to the Audiogon community you may get what you have been asking for. | |
| Replacement for Audiquest Diamondback Interconnect Indeed the Adcom should be upgraded. A quick band aid solution which is not cheap, is to use Cardas Golden anything interconnects. There is something about that Cardas Copper or geometry that really helps mellow the sound without losing detailed i... | |
| Need advice for B&W 804 diamond amplification How much do you want to spend max.? The best use of speakers that good is strictly 2 channel for music.Movie sound tracks do very well with fairly inexpensive speaker sets with a good sub for LFE which means low frequency effects.I would seriously... | |
| Integrated around 200-300 quid I didn't know that people accept squid for payment but they are tasty when fried in a light batter. Anyway my vote among your choices is the Roksan Candy/ or the Audiolab. I think both are a good notch better than the others, whose sound is just n... | |
| Practicality of footers to isolate turntables. Big Brass footers from EdenSound spiked into a very thick maple board will do it. Have Edensound make a platform for your motor and put it on the board too. Vibration will be minimalized. |