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| Looking for CD player with volume control? Check out the Wadia 302 it not only has remote VC it has adjustible output to match your amps input sensitivity. Written up by Soundstage so you can read a review. I use mine with a tubed PP amp and its the best sound I've had in my hose to date. ... | |
| A question regarding "tubes" Maybe its time for you to think outside the box a bit. First I doubt that you will ever successfully optomize one system for both digital and analog, at least I haven't. Up until recently the digital always took second place. Until recently. Short... | |
| question on pwr cords Tplavas, I have to say that I'm amazed at your aural accuity! Just how does the difference that you can detect between a 1.5 and a 2 meter PC of ths same brand and construction manifest itself? What is it that you hear that is different? Do you th... | |
| opinions on 2nd system Sounds like a good match - the Spica's are detailed and image well, the 1700 is on the warm side of neutral, has all of the controls for playing with tone to match your set up and listening conditions, and best of all (I assume) its cheap. Now if ... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? OK I vote for Harleys definitions! Now just tell me when I'm listening to the fat lady sing how i know when the high note is 1500 or 2500 hz. Maybe in addition to Harleys breakdown, we also need one of those charts that show the range of all of th... | |
| Who Do You Credit For Getting You Into This Hobby? I can only blame myself. I was a strictly a music lover with a very modest system bought, without reasearch, to get some music into the house. Then I noticed that owning stereo systems was 'cool'. Been downhill ever since, and the worst of it is, ... | |
| A question regarding "tubes" Aball, You posted while I was typing. I find your question interesting and your observation about 'matching' right on. I've had a BAT DK5 for some time and I always was less than happy with it, not unhappy mind you, just thinking it wasn't worth a... | |
| A question regarding "tubes" "Do all....". Nope, not all, by a fair margin. Its all stereotyping. Some tube amps can be fairly competent in both highs and lows, depends a lot on the interface with the speakers to which they are attached. In pre-amps and CDP's its more about a... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? OK lets see if we can reach an agreement on that 'simple' request. :-)I nominate 100 to 300 hz for upper bass/lower mid range and 1500 to 4000 hz for upper mid-range lower treble. Are you keeping score Tvad? :-) | |
| question on pwr cords "Once you go beyond 1.5m...."Nsgarch, Can you explain why that is so? Are there any studies supporting this or is is it an anecdotal thing?What would the aural differences be between (lets for the sake of discussion say) 4 meter lengths of 14 gaug... | |
| Suggestions for adjustable gain CD player I looked at your system and noted that you like symplicity. Since I have many sources I can appreciate that. FWIW, I bought one of those 302's and while it was fine going thru my pre-amp with all the other stuff, I connected it to a tube amp direc... | |
| Powering on/off amps with preamp trigger Tbooze, Zero volume is not mute.I really am not familar with your pre-amp. Most pre-amps have the volume contols before the amplifing stage so the amp is always seeing the full output of the pre-amps line stage. The volume control only lowers the ... | |
| The importance of proper set-up I thought Stew just asked this question, perhaps in a slightly different form. The differences between thick and dark and thin and bright are emblematic of the differences heard when you are playing LP's of varying thickness using just one setting... | |
| Powering on/off amps with preamp trigger The reason that folks like to power on and off as you have mentioned is that a a pre-amp can do some nasty stuff during warm up if it doesn't have a mute circuit and you can also experience rude noises from the preamp when its shut down. Some amps... | |
| How to improve? What is this 'wow' factor you are looking for? What exactly do you feel is missing from your present system sonically speaking? Have you optomized room/speaker interface?FWIW, my last exposure to the 'WOW factor' occurred this spring when I connec... |