muralman1
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| modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima Hi Distortion, Congratulations! Look at the plastic inside. Black plate is black. All 5751 tubes beat any 12ax7 tubes IMO.Just wait a month. The Jolida will increasingly give you ever more satisfaction. | |
| The Truth About Preamps It has been my experience the cdp is something you can spend way too much for. In my case a pre amp is necessary to make my cdp sound better. A cdp just does not have the ability to saturate my amps. The highs and lows just roll off. Also, no one ... | |
| The Truth About Preamps I have four sources. Doing without a preamp is senseless for me. I still would not buy a high priced cdp so I can bypass a pre amp. My pre amp allows me to adjust gain for each channel, or just go passive. I like the versatility. My $1600 (used) p... | |
| The Truth About Preamps That was a great response, Elizabeth. Budrew, the oft used statement equating an inert wire with a complex preamp is sophomoric.Mahandave, you must know you are ommitting a great number of exquisite pre amps that sell new for less than $10,000. | |
| modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima The Jolida itself will seem to take an inordinate time to break in. The tubes I've rolled, on the other hand, have exhibited most of their character at the outset.Now, I'll make a liar of myself. My first listen to a Jolida was with a rude pre amp... | |
| modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima Hi Distortion, give the Jolida a long break in. It will first appear constricted and anemic.If I were you, I'd lose the MIT, unless your amp is the great offender. MIT works through subtraction. I have never liked their results on a good system.Th... | |
| modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima Matty,Good to know that. I would love to hear the tube modded CD25. It hardly qualifies as a mod. I think I read the op amp is discarded, and a tube/transformer curcuit is put in it's place. | |
| modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima Matty, I'm glad you asked. It may be because I skipped almost all concerts, or it may be the genes, but my hearing is unusually acute.My speakers, Apogee Scintillas, are arguably the most sensitive transducers around. Their mid and hi ribbons util... | |
| modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima I do believe the Music Hall 25 and Sony ES could be improved by tube output mods. It is obvious the ss crowd is coming to grips with their unit's shortcomings.The Jolida, on the other hand, does not need modification. It's electronics were fine tu... | |
| Looking for a Speaker in the $15,000 Range I heard the $14,000 highly efficient Cabasse Karas recently at the Home Entertainment Show in San Francisco. Also present were the above mentioned speakers. There was no contest. the Cabasse was the only speaker I heard there that gave a truly lif... | |
| pass lab x-350 vs krell ksa 300s? Tabu - good answers. You know me. I have used quite a few amps, including Krell, and Pass.... On Apogees of course. Don't shy away from going used with Pass to save thousands. Pass amps have great track records.I would think a 250 could handle a C... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System Sean, my comments were not directed at you. Sorry, if I bruised toes. You are right, I do feel strongly cable cost effectiveness ratios are way out of line. I did mention, though, specialty cables may indeed calm grunge. I don't try to cypher the ... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System It was said once one upgrades their system sufficiently, they will more readily discern cable differences.My system stands shoulder to shoulder with the most transparent systems. I have tried a number of cables based on widely differing design pre... | |
| Shipping company for speakers- any good or bad one I ship ribbon speakers via small Moves/Vintage Transport which specialize in antiques and valuable art work. My speakers are wrapped in a moving blanket like everything else in the truck then tied to the walls of the truck. | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System I would not be surprised. there are manufacturers who do all kinds of foolish things to cables, and there are customers to match. I will put my system up against any system to see which is more resoving. Any body who has ever heard the well set up... |