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| Room and Placement for Revel Studios Good point Shadorne, I never thought about the possibility that the OP would sit in that area. I agree with your suggestions if he can't sit within the 14x20 ft area. I would equally recommend that he not put his speakers in the area you thought h... | |
| Room and Placement for Revel Studios In response to your last paragraph, I don't think there is any advantage, in fact I would suspect the opposite. One thing to consider, given the width of your room, is to try setting up your speakers on the long wall - that should pretty much take... | |
| Are DAC prices reflecting sound quality? I agree with much of what Tpreaves sez.Whether newer digital devises have 'improved', say since 2004, is probably less important than whether any subtle changes aka improvements will be sufficient to be heard on your system in your room and whethe... | |
| Lacking Soundstage - Vandersteen 2C Livin, FWIW Bondmanp and Programmergeek are correct about room set up being critical and responsible to your having a centered mono signal, but a stereo signal that is off center. While speaker location IS critical, in my room the listening positi... | |
| SED Winged C el34. Help Another vote for the SED EL34. I started using them in the mid 90's and have yet to have a major failure (short,etc) but some have naturally died of age. Very reliable and a nice tone as well. I still have the old St Petersburg Svetlana as well as... | |
| Drop in tube replacement 6N6 v 6CG7 Marco, I did try the distributor. He insists that the Cayin 6cg7 is just that. That the 6n6 imprinted by the tube manufacturer is "just a production code". He also sez the difference between them and other 6CG7's is just an issue of high gain whic... | |
| Drop in tube replacement 6N6 v 6CG7 Marco, Thanks for the offer. Problem is I think that a regular 6cg7 has too much gain for my A100T Cayin when using KT88's. I guess there are other tubes and combinations possible, but I'd at least like to resolve this 6N6 issue. I checked the goo... | |
| Acoustat upgrade to Spectra 4400 Based on what I heard with my 2200's and the old 2+2's one of the big sonic differences is that the Spectra's actually do a good job of image focus so vocals and solo instruments sound more accurately sized. No more room sized mouths!Nice speakers... | |
| 40-50w tube amp for Aerial 9 Something that you might like to research, its been talked about quite a bit here as Tvad knows, is the affect of the output impedence of the amp which is not linear thru its frequency response, especially if it is a tube amp many of which have a ... | |
| Cary 120s...anyone heard this amp Jdec, Visit Audio Asylem and read a recent thread by a couple of users and you will see that their views are in contrast to the posters in this thread. I have no idea which set of views are representative of the sellers on A-Gon. | |
| What paint sheen? Match the finish to other mouldings in the room like door trim, base boards, etc. I like semi gloss latex wall paint as opposed to enamel. Much easier to apply. FWIW | |
| Endler stepped attenuator w/Cary active preamp It is possible that the level of hiss that you are hearing, or not hearing, in the various configurations, has something to do with impedence matching between the sources and the amps, as well as the IC's used to connect them, when using either th... | |
| Endler stepped attenuator w/Cary active preamp You would put the Endlers between your pre-amp and your amps. I suspect you will discover that the noise still exists when you do. If you are concerned that the Cary might be the source of the hiss, simply turn your source off leaving the volume c... | |
| Endler stepped attenuator w/Cary active preamp If the hiss is constant it is in your pre-amp. If it fluctuates when you use the volume control then it is in the TP. If it is in the pre-amp using an inline attenuator, either a constant fixed value or one which can be used as a stand alone VC wi... | |
| KT88 or EL34 based tube amp for Titus ES Linearity and clarity for the most part. These are the SED6L6GC which have a good rep and are very rugged. (Caveat, there are lots of 6L6 types so if you are investigating them, be mindful of the differences, especially in the Baron. FWIW my Baron... |