midareff1
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| Tweaks for a new ARC preamp? Well, it wasn't an SP 17, it was an LS17SE. If there is anything, and I mean anything the LS2B MKII has taught me over the years, and it's almost 25, is that it's sound and musical involvement is directly related to the vacuum tube in it. Chines... | |
| Tweaks for a new ARC preamp? Well, at the end of the day the LS2B MKII ran the 17 SE right out of the room. Not even close. Sold to a jerk on eBay who returned it against my wishes at 600 hours and then resold to dealer.Have always played with tubes... anything 6DJ8, then... | |
| Balanced cables In my experience moving to balanced from single ended prodiced a slight increase in articulation, most noticeably in the bass. | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? My system has been basically the same for more than 25 years except for the CD player. ARC pre, LS2B MKII + remote takes a 6DJ8 but has been on a diet of late 1960's to early 1970's 6922 Cca Siemens and Halske grey plate NOS for the last 20 years... | |
| Cable Survey When I first built the system I still have (twenty-five + years ago) Fatwyre was a cable lending company. I tried about 10 or 12 different speaker cables, and about the same amount of interconnects finding out what worked best with the components... | |
| Audio Research I’ve been using the same Audio Research pre for about 25 years, and that isn’t for lack of trying at anything resembling a sane price. LS17-SE, LS27 .. dog meat compared to Filet Mignon. What is it? An Audio Research LS2 B MKII with remote volume/... | |
| Tuner or Receiver Look up the Tuner Information Center.... http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/index.html#audiophileand you will have subjective sonic results of lots of tuners.. Based on extensive reading I acquired a near 45 year old Sansui TU-9900 fully modified by Mik... | |
| What type of Audio Gal or Guy are you? Do You Know? Eureka moment.... discovered late 50's and early 60's Siemens and Halske 6922 Cca grey plate tubes. | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Dual 1219 in the 70's with a Shure V15 mk3 ... went to CD about 1980? and never looked back. | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. Easy solution although not bargain priced. I use a Magnum Dynalab ST-2 half wave (whip) mast designed for outdoor use in my listening room.. in the corner mounted so the tip reaches a nine foot ceiling. From there the signal goes to a Magnum Dynal... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? Main system.. Acoustat 1100’s w/modified base modules. .. since roughly 1993 As far as this system is concerned I’ve had stuff in house to demo against existing components quite a few times. Pre, amps, tuner and speakers remain the same. CD player... | |
| whats the very best sounding cables for realistic money After using the cable services to demo many different speaker and ic cables it became apparent that Straightwire Maestro was the best performing speaker and ic in my system. I think cables are very system specific. | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Still use a pair of Sumo Andromeda II A’s driving a pair of like vintage Acoustat 1100’s via a like vintage Audio Research LS 2B MKII. Every time I bring in something new to test drive against what I have the newbie gets smoked and sent back. Ha... | |
| Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money? A Sony XA5400ES CD/SACD player I bought as a close out direct from Sony with a 2 year extended warranty for $400. Was $1600 new and a raved Stereophile component. | |
| My Audio Research experience Don't have any experience with ARC power amps but have been using an ARC LS2 MKII B remote preamp for getting close to 30 years. I audition stuff from time to time but it beats back all pretenders to the crown including recently an LS17-SE and an... |