mezmo
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| Pre with Pass-Thru for HT Processor The one I settled on for those requirements was the VTL TL 2.5. (New around $1.5k, used for $8-900-ish). Gives you a nice little tube preamp with both a processor loop and a tape loop. Oops, re-read the post, and the VTL is single ended. If all yo... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Dude, where can I git meself a Golden Jalopy 1500? | |
| Zap Sound out of Speakers when Powering Off Yea, sometimes tired tubes can fart a bit (for lack of a better word) when powering down. While you're waiting for the new ones, one thing you can do to test whether it's the tubes is, to the extent that it is reliably happening in the right chann... | |
| Zap Sound out of Speakers when Powering Off Jeesh, don't sound normal to me. As a preliminary suggestion, it's a good idea to turn off the amp first when shutting down. That way, if any of the other gear discharges anything weird when shutting down it's not passed along (and amplified) on i... | |
| Headphone Amp Question not a HD600/RS-1 debate Usually the best way to run an headphone amp off a preamp is to put it on the tape or processor loop out. That way, it is in no way keyed to the volume pot on the preamp and you only have one volume pot in the circuit to potentially muck with the ... | |
| Replacing tubes.... Unfortunately, you can also have a tube that is definitely "bad" without it being all that ostentatious about it. After a while, they simply lose steam and sound flatter and more constricted -- it may not make noise or advertise the fact that it's... | |
| Tweeter cone on my B&W 805 Naut's is pushed in Well, if it was that way when the fellow you bought it from sold it to you and he didn't tell you, then that's cause for being more than a little cross. But that's a different axe to grind.Sonically, it really shouldn't make much difference at all... | |
| What do You listen to? Man, I can't believe I left out AC/DC, the Cure and the Violent Femmes. Pure high school for me, but I still say You Shook Me All Night Long is one of the top songs, ever. By the by, the Hogwaller Ramblers (a Charlottesville bluegrass fusion band)... | |
| What do You listen to? Interesting question. Got me thinking. I recently reorganized my whole CD collection and, in the process, went through a bit wider rotation of CDs over the past week than I might normally. As a little challenge, thought to give myself 10 minutes t... | |
| Getting started, need amp recommendation Save yourself! Run, hide under a rock, turn up the TV, do whatever you need to do to avoid setting toe one on this consuming primrose path! (You've been warned...). Otherwise, welcome to the loonie bin. | |
| 5 best underrated or unknown bands and why? Hey, I can do a shameless plug for a friend of mine who's making some excellent music, right? If you're into amazing, often sublime lyrics with a very talented, folkey guitar back, this is the best stuff going, in my experience. Danny Schmidt Also... | |
| Has audiophilia changed your music taste? Yep, me too. If anything, it has broadened the scope of things that I listen to, though, so I consider it a good thing. In fact, I sometimes find myself listening to and seeking out things purely because I like the lushness or tonality or warmth o... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Precisely--they suck and we can expect them to get worse. There was a "comminuty owned" radio station in Charlottesville, VA that was, and still is, one of the best that I have ever heard. Then I moved to NYC and expected to be able to find here, ... | |
| Are You Satisfied? Paul, I think you hit a sizable portion of my own mania right on the head. I own two tubed preamps and a tubed CD player and, although I love the sound, I always seem to be second guessing them one way or another. I switched out the CD player and ... | |
| Are You Satisfied? Hell no. Way I see it, the prusuit of perfection in anything is a life-long endevour. Now anyone who fails to relish and enjoy each any every step along the way is missing the point, but, satisfied? I'll be satisfied only if, the day they put me i... |