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| Problem with Esoteric service Buy a return ticket to Tokyo (currently $823) and take it as luggage. Do some sightseeing and enjoy some sushi while they service it, get a free trip to Japan and save $1177 (or pay UPS $2,000 to do the same thing 🙂) And if you don’t have the tim... | |
| Hum from devices. Plug all of your equipment into the same socket using an adapter ... this is probably a ground loop issue and using the same earth point for all your equipment (which a single point of plug in will do) should solve it. | |
| Checking power transistors http://www.electronicspoint.com/mosfet-power-amp-transistor-replacement-and-debugging-t52971.html | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? "With USB and Firewire interfaces, Yes."Any logic to why a particular interface would make a WAV sound better? | |
| Subwoofer Crossover Setting with B&W 805S Buy a Lyngdorf RP-1 and let it tell you what you should be doing, based on the acoustics of your room. | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? Use DBPoweramp and read the manual - as they say, experience is what you get if you don't read the manual... | |
| EL 34 Amp Recommendations If you can stretch to around $3500 (!) buy a used Wolcott Presence amp. Tremendous sound and auto biasing of the EL34 tubes . | |
| Fremer lays an Ostrich egg... Try reading Fremer's review of the Whest 0.20 phono stage for a laugh... First says that it is better than the Boulder, then backtracks furiously, then every Whest phono stage he has since reviewed is so-so.If you haven't realized that some of the... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Giovanni Mariani, of Graaf fame, should definitely be on this list.Anyone with the balls to design a 32 driver tube OTL amp like the GM200 has got to have a place on the Designer Hall of Fame! Nothing quite like it from an audio performance, sheer... | |
| Center channel for esoteric mg-20's These are without any doubt, some of the best imaging speakers ever built. You do NOT need to use a center channel speaker with them. | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I have to agree with all pf the OTL recommendations (Atma-sphere, Joule Electric, etc.)I have a Graaf GM200 that I intend to take with me to my grave and have two replacement sets of the PL504 output tubes (64 in total) stored that I will need to ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Wilson Benesch Bishops, driven by Graaf GM200 amp. | |
| Opinions on Graaf Amps Replacing the entire set of 32 tubes on the GM200 costs an extremely reasonable 500 Euro for a matched set from the factory (you really want to order them from the factory as close matching is absolutely necessary). This is hardly expensive, espec... | |
| Graaf Amplifiers Factory closed down The Graaf factory has NOT closed down. I called the number in Italy this morning that is on their web site and spoke to someone about order a set of new tubes... | |
| Good speakers at low volume? Well, how big is your apartment? There are probably no better low-level speakers available than the Soundlab electrostatics... :-)I believe that it has to do with their patented spacing of the cells that make up each panel. Just amazing to listen ... |