mulveling
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| Charge for TT setup? On a $6K table there WILL be ample margin to at least include free setup. And if they're at all competent, it won't take much of their time to do so, and do it properly. The dealer sounds rather stingy to me, unless they've got those $6K tables fl... | |
| upgrading the analog setup Upgraded to a Clearaudio Innovation Wood last year, but ran an old Series III SOTA Star before that. The SOTA was my 1st table, and it made me fall in love with vinyl. I can heartily recommend it, and I'd urge you towards a SOTA table with the 4-p... | |
| Rogue Apollo v. VAC Phi 300.1a Hey Bill, Yep, the RCA 12AX7 black plate has been one of my favorites too. I'm currently running a pair in the Rogue Ares phono, though they sound good in the Apollos too. In addition to some of the usual suspects -- Mullard LP, Telefunken RP, RCA... | |
| Rogue Apollo v. VAC Phi 300.1a Hi Bill,Sounds like we have similar price pain-points. I stretched on the analog source and speakers, but $20K for a single amp/preamp component is well past my comfort zone.I remember rolling a few times in the VAC Ren III preamp, and going back ... | |
| Rogue Apollo v. VAC Phi 300.1a I've run the Apollos for a few years now, and they're excellent. Probably loafing on my 96dB/Watt Tannoys, but I do like it loud ;)Dynamics as good as anything I've heard. Responds like crazy to tube rolling! All of the tube slots respond signific... | |
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? Lost art. That's why. New stuff can be very good, but will always be different. I wish some of these way-to-damn-rich philanthropists would occasionally pick a dying (beautiful) technology to keep alive (like vacuum tubes back in the 60's-70's) --... | |
| New to headphone amps --- I'm wondering ..... Mechans -- as far as the AKG 545's specs go, Almarg's 97dB/99dB calculations are correct. And yes, I too am surprised that they are so low. Potential hearing damage issues aside, a $300 headphone that is limited to 99dB max (as spec'd, which does ... | |
| New to headphone amps --- I'm wondering ..... In your case, by running from tape-out you're almost certainly creating an impedance mismatch that is rolling off your bass response big-time, and in general wreaking havoc on the net frequency response. The effect is exacerbated with headphones o... | |
| Why so many cut Nordost Odins? In fact, what they're doing is segmenting the market. These cable companies still get to act like their flagship cables are magical, and keep the MSRP prices up where only the top 0.1% and Kanye West can afford them. Hence they command a HUGE prof... | |
| Why so many cut Nordost Odins? They're not necessarily fakes. The cables are so ludicrously priced per inch (not only Nordost is guilty of this) that there's huge incentive to make the most of every inch. Say you could -- at extremely aggressive discount -- get a several meter ... | |
| Tannoy Speakers & Bi-wiring Hi Pani, The Tannoy dual-concentric really is not time aligned. The compression driver diaphragm is about 6 inches behind the woofer's acoustic center. However, Tannoys are phase coherent at the crossover point, thanks to the following slick hack:... | |
| Poor man's Rockport Atrias? I agree so completely and wholeheartedly with Soix on this that I'm pretty sure we're either clones or doppelgangers of each other. The seed of desire has been planted; anything less will just waste your time, money, and good nature. | |
| Tannoy Speakers & Bi-wiring Pani, that page does little to convince me of such a fundamental rule. There can be no impact on time alignment, even with cables of slightly differing lengths -- electronic signals are orders of magnitude faster than sound waves. My Tannoys are n... | |
| Tannoy Speakers & Bi-wiring I have Canterbury SE, and bi-wire with Audioquest Mont Blanc low and KE-4 high. I really want to think cables are BS, but there is a modest improvement in resolution, clarity, and extension by running this bi-wire config vs. either cable alone (th... | |
| Remote volume control = unacceptable compromise? Yeah, to echo Grannyring again, the Alps blue pots suck for high-end audio applications. They're cool for say a $600 headphone amp or an entry level hifi integrated/pre, but I shudder seeing pics of (for example) a $4K preamp's internals with the ... |