newbee
Responses from newbee
| Serendipity: perfect example Where have you been, after all of the discussions here on proper set up? Well, better late than never. :-)Incidentially, I just saw a photo of a well known equipment modder listening to his work over his system. His dynamic speakers were pointed s... | |
| When does the law diminishing returns kick in? The law of deminishing returns usually sets in after you have bought a prospectively wonderful component and find that it sounds like crap in your system! | |
| replacing tubes, AR sp6A preamp To tell if the tubes are bad....turn it on, hear any noise? How far do you have to rotate the volume control before you have noise? Connect (or turn on a source) how does it sound. Dull, rolled off. Perhaps your tubes are over the hill and could u... | |
| ARC users please I really don't know what pre amp you want. Like Ecclectique, I have had a SP10II since it first came out and have no intent to part with it. If I didn't have it I would buy a used CAT or a MFA Lumi. But these are beyond your budget. My recommendat... | |
| Best Floorstander Under 10K? I'll second the Tyler Acoustics Linbrook System. I just broke in a pair of the 1 piece systems. Very balanced, neutral and revealing, without undue upper range emphasis. Very smooth. Tight bass. Big soundstage at low to moderate volumes. They run ... | |
| ARC users please If memory serves me the SP7 is an older SS ARC pre-amp? ARC has never been known for its SS stuff, quite the contrary, the SP6 and the SP8 are both far, far, better preamps and would easily better the SP7 and can be found for $1000 or less dependi... | |
| What should I use between spikes and wood floor? I realize that this is not an answer to your question, but I wonder why you (or anyone) wants to couple speakers to a (suspended) wood floor. Personally, I want to hear my speakers not my floors, and I isolate them from the floors for whatever goo... | |
| Need to tame bass I agree with Sogood, re speaker positioning (and listener position). Moving your speakers or chair a few inches could make far greater difference in a problematic room than all of the speaker cables in the world. And, if you find a cable that will... | |
| Mahler 5 Slightly off topic, but since Megasam mentioned Bernstein, the one Bernstein performance that I consistently go back to is his live M9 with the Berliner Philharmoniker (1979). This is one of the most exciting M9 I have in my collection and totally... | |
| Plinius M16 Phono vs. Plinius M14 Separate Phono FWIW, I see nothing wrong with having to advance your volume control past 12 to get sufficent volume so long as when you get there, even if its at 3 o'clock your not getting to the noise threshold of your preamp. If the tone and dynamics are still... | |
| Eye-brain effect R Burke, Facinating theory. I can't connect reading with critically listening to music (maybe that's why I can listen with my eyes open, withouot my glasses I can't focus on anything enuf for it to be distracting :-), but I do know that when watch... | |
| Last 4 Years - Votes for Best Speaker Ever Heard Jeez, And I thought I needed to get a life! But, I'll grant you that the lack of an consensus is interesting. | |
| tube compliment for Anthem pre-1 All good questions. Regarding types, either read your manual or pop the lid of the pre-amp. You'll then be able to tell what tubes are used. Then listen a lot to the sound of the pre-amp and ask yourself - what don't I like or what do I want to im... | |
| Audio Research D-115 MKIII tube amp.. I owned one for a couple of years. Very balanced and smooth tone but not overly warmish (by early 90's standard). Tonally it was much like the SP10 pre-amp that came out at the same time. Soundwise it was a very good amp.Its got a lot of tubes in ... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Power 2 SE opinions please. If you like the tonal balance this is an excellent amp and it will easily drive your speakers. Value wise $2700 is borderline in MHO. Repair wise Parts Express can repair if necessary - they have one of SF experts there. Service wise these are bui... |