mikelavigne
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| best preamp ever - cost is no object the darTZeel NHB-18NS is the best i've heard; and i've heard many listed so far. battery powered and including a world class phono stage and remote volume control it is hard to beat. if you are using a darTZeel amp you can use the 'cheap' 50 ohm B... | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? i have been one watching and waiting on this whole CDR burning thing.....and almost pulled the trigger a few times on RC......but it seemed a bit of a moving target. i was at an interesting 'late night' demo at 2006 CES where some RC 'insiders' di... | |
| Dartzeel amp lives up to hype first, there was only one pre-production dart preamp in the western hemisphere from October 05' to late December 05'. which was at jtinn's, RMAF, and then in my room. it went no-where else. there were 2 pre-production units in Europe during that t... | |
| Shunyata Anaconda Alpha or Elrod Statement? in my above comments i didn't want to go OT and bring up another power cord......but since i didn't start it i'll second Rgwrjs's comments. i now am using 7 Jena Labs Fundamental One power cords in place of my Elrods. I found that the Jena's were ... | |
| Shunyata Anaconda Alpha or Elrod Statement? In my system on Tenor 300 watt Hybrids with 20 amp IEC's i preferred the Elrod Statements to the Anaconda Alpha's. The Elrods were a good deal more dynamic and portrayed a better sense of effortlessness. The Elrods seemed to 'flesh-out' images bet... | |
| DartZeel phono section... Ct, to be fair to the Io; i had heard later that Jim White had found that he had some noisey tubes (or was it resistors?) so that might have been part of my issue back then. also, the Lamm has only 57.5db of gain and is loaded at 400 ohms so it is... | |
| DartZeel phono section... Ct; i had the darTZeel NHB-18NS battery powered preamp with phono stage in my system for most of the last three months.the Aesthetix Io was my reference phono stage from 1999 thru 2002. at that point i tried the Io Signature with 2 power supplies ... | |
| Calling all Von Schweikert VR-9 owners Hooper; are you describing an 'electrical buzz' (a kind of hum) or a 'vibration buzz' (something loose that rattles)?i assume that you have turned off the subwoofer and the noise went away to isolate the noise to a subwoffer issue. btw, i get zero... | |
| Best power amp below US $ 20.000,00 ?? Elberoth2, in your 14' x 19' foot room you may not need a 'big amp' that is typically associated with Eidolons.you mention your interest in an 'SET mid-range' yet have a 87db, 4 ohm speaker. depending on listening habits, finding an amp that can c... | |
| Dartzeel amp lives up to hype congrats, and welcome to the darTZeel club. i agree that the dart is deceptively dynamic for 100 watts. the fact it is fully broken in is very significant as to dynamics.you know, of course, you now "need" the darTZeel battery powered pre. it is m... | |
| What pre-amp goes well with the Tenor 150 HPs amp? having tried lots of preamps (at least 10 others......although none of those you listed) with Tenor 300 Hybrids and Tenor OTL's; the winner for me was the Placette passive RVC.as long as you keep the interconnects very short between the Placette a... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? Alex; you will be welcome here any time it might work out.as far as your generous suggestion; unfortunately my current setup for vinyl utilizes a pre-production darTZeel preamp with only BNC outputs operational. therefore i have no way to input th... | |
| VTL, CTC, Lamm, ARC, EAR, Halcro, Mark Levison David, Herve Delatraz (Mr. darTZeel) is in Geneva, SW. if you contact him directly i would expect something could be worked out.www.dartzeel.com his e-mail address is rehve@darTZeel.comthe Connoisseur Definitions was the phono stage/pre which had ... | |
| VTL, CTC, Lamm, ARC, EAR, Halcro, Mark Levison i owned the Exquisite 1D's for 4 years and have owned the Levinson #32 as well as had the Lamm L2, Aesthetix Calisto Sig. w/2 power supplies, and CTC Blowtorch in my room with the 1D's. however, i have not had the ML2.1's in my room.i likely agree... | |
| Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there? "Well I had assumed that when you say "get out of the way of the music" you were referring to the invisibility of your speakers."it is not possible to isolate issues to one factor.....and more than a few speakers 'disappear'. in addition there is ... |