newbee
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| Shorting caps/Cardas protective caps worth the $? RCA covering caps sound like dust preventers at best, however shorting plugs do work (to some degree). On my preamp I noticed on an unused input a buzz at highish levels. I put in shorting plugs and the buzz disappeared. Does that effect the outpu... | |
| Which speaker will perform Those ML's are great amps with tons of current but I doubt that you will find them powerful enuf to drive those Kappa 9's. Even high current 200wt amps have problems. There was a recent post on this Speaker - you might see if you can find it. It i... | |
| tube amp dilemma with electrostats Well here's a thought for you. When you listen to an amp you are listening to a lot more than the power tube. An amp with 6550's can sound bright, dull, or quite nice and a lot depends on the driver tubes. Years ago I got a Sonic Frontiers SFS80 a... | |
| all preamps gain and phase. I suspect the gain control allows you to reduce the gain of a source(s) before it reaches the attenuator on your amp - this is convenient when you have a high gain source. Without it you would only be able to get miniumum use of the VC before you ... | |
| System Components are Warm but Synergy is Bright? My read on the published reviews and quite a few of the user reviews on line have lead me to believe that the 303/200 can be bright, at least in some systems. I doubt that you have a unit with a defect, it just isn't synergistic with your componen... | |
| Sonic Frontiers to Conrad Johnson . Its not really so much about money as the general direction that tube audio has taken in the past 10+ years. All of the majors, ARC, Sonic's Frontiers, and CJ have moved away from the "warm" sound of tube amps from the 80's and early 90"s. Its my ... | |
| speaker help please, have Perraux pre amp and amp Well I'm not familar with your speakers but I'm very familar with your amp and preamp (I've owned the full Perreaux stack - 2l50, SM3, and TU3). I would be very careful in buying new speakers, especially very revealing ones. You may find your elec... | |
| What sonic improvements with a high end pre-amp Depends what you are trying to accomplish. Many would consider your SP14 to be on the cold side of neutral so if you're looking to warm up your system a pre-amp change could help. If you've voiced your system around the SP14 and you like it's tone... | |
| Does anyone out there have a liquid system I've read your other posts on this subject and can relate to your frustrations, however given the various known attributes which system components have, its what you do with them that will give you the sound you want. Its a long trip for most of u... | |
| Proposal - lets share our treasures Good idea, but tough project. In order for it to be really worth while it should be archival in nature so folks could use it as a reference and for that to work you would have to break it down in catagories so if someone wanted pop they wouldn't h... | |
| What`s with the Hyperion HPS 938 An interesting question, the answer to which I suspect has less to do with the speakers themselves than the folks who buy them based on reviews with out regard to how they might actually sound in their room with their equipment. When they get the ... | |
| 1970's Audio Research Equipment, worth having? I agree with Nsgarch that in the late 80's ARC made changes in going to hybrids...BUT i will not cede that this was an advancement. :-)I'm not up to speed on ARC's amps. The only one I've ever owned was the D115II - I never warmed up to it for var... | |
| ARC Reference 2 MkII Preamp white noise levels My gut reation to you situation is that you have a pre-amp with high gain, and amp with high sensitivity and/or very efficient speakers and you are hearing the noise floor of your pre-amp line stage. I recently got some higher efficiency speakers ... | |
| speaker that project mids farther out into room FWIW, I've heard that horns do this quite well. The only horns I have ever owned (Altec 19's) certainly did, they put the soundstage out in front of the speakers. Very interesting effect. They have been out of production for many years however and... | |
| Is my setup mid-fi or hi-fi? Marco, that was a pretty big box you were standing on. :-)Slov Dream, Great system. Now get the best CDP you can afford but which will leave you with enuf money to buy lot's of music. The music is where its really at! |