newbee
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| Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue? Could be set up problems. Do you have first reflection points under control? What have you done with toe in? Are you listening on speaker axis? You don't mention room conditions, size or location of speakers and listener position at all. Would lis... | |
| Loud Popping / Electrical Noise? Pre amp tubes have probably gotten noisy and need to be replaced. Turn off the pre amp (or mute it) leaving tha amp on. Does the noise go away? If so Its the Pre-amp. | |
| Oracle Delphi MarkII or Music Hall7? Which one? Uniformly great advise, especially the comments by Jhorowitz which are quite useful. With any luck you might find the tone arm mounting plate the previous owner used will be suitible for your new arm. There is a fairly large group that use the sam... | |
| What makes a $20,000 cd player cost 20,000? Douglas and Boa2, Interesting comments..not without some foundation I think.IMHO, only a fool hordes his money and only a boor makes a display of it. Once you have provided for a secure future for yourself and your family, spend the damm stuff on ... | |
| Odyssey Lorelelis, Tyler Acoustics Tylo 7U FWIW, I do not have the 7U's but I do have the Linbrook Signature Systems which I drive with an all tube system to great effect. The drivers themselves are very fast and revealing although the way Tyler has implemented them in this model they seem... | |
| upgrading CD player results Richmon, I'm also surprised that a $3000 player didn't cream (as you say) a $630 set up. Perhaps the Marantz/X10 sound better to you is because it is just synergistic with your present set up (speakers, amp and preamp), not because it is intrinsic... | |
| What's the funniest song you ever heard? This will make me odd man out, but I love Gilbert and Sullivans operettas of which my favorites are HMS Pinafore and the Mikado. But my favorite G&S witty ditty is A Capitol Ship... Which starts out, "A capitol ship for an ocean trip was the w... | |
| Audio Research vt100mkll question I suspect the harshness you hear is from the 6h30's. Call Leonard at ARC service dept - he will give you the straight scoop. | |
| Classical music - starting points Beemerrider, Solti's 1st, suggested by Rushton is a good place to start. It's in print and its a budget CD. If you can't find it Kubelik is another budget disc I'd recommend that is in print. If you want to try #6, Zander on Telarc is a fine place... | |
| Classical music - starting points Beemerrider, Don't give up on Mahler. I'm not at all sure that #2 is the best place to start though. The last movement is certainly a big part of this piece's attraction but it sure takes a long time to get there and even then it can seem uneven a... | |
| Classical music - starting points Rushton, Where's Mahler in your list! :-)Believe it on not, I recently exposed my adult daughter to classical music using my two favorite composers, Sibelius (Sym #4), and Mahler (Sym #6). She found Sibelius bland and just loved Mahler. Go figure! | |
| DOA- do we need to redefine the 'A'? Traditionally, all used products, not just audio products, sold used are sold as is unless they have been described. When described they must then meet the description made by the seller. That is why a prudent person making a purchase asks a lot o... | |
| tubes or no tubes Nrchy, From you 4th paragraph I can tell which side of the acrimony you hail from! FWIW, despite the maintenance issues, and they do exist but not to the degree that you suggest, my tubes sound better on their average days than the best SS stuff e... | |
| Classical music - starting points For someone new to classical music who is serious about getting some exposure to what is available from the different composers which would in turn give them some guidance in what music to move on to, I don't think you can beat the purchase of som... | |
| Better AM reception.... any ideas? Well, the truth is that most AM sections are mere afterthoughts on Stereo FM tuners and a frequently much less sensitive than a good table radio or your car radio. Additionally AM signals are sensitive to interference and the signal strenght which... |