newbee
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| Room acoustics: diffusor or absorber? Diffusers would work best - absorbers would just deaden your room. However since your chair is against the wall I think you would not really gain by treating the back wall at all. The further out into the room you put your chair the more you want ... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for ARC VT100 Someone listed a pair of Paragon Jubilee/Jems on the For Sale site for 2300. These are full range dynamic speakers using Dynaudio drivers. The have a excellent impedence values for tubes (8ohm nominal and 5.6ohm minimum), are very transparent and ... | |
| New to tubes. This is fairly normal. All of my Yugo's do this as well as some others. Don't sweat it. | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Barry, What it all boils down to, for me anyway, is whether your presence here is merely to sell your products or to seriously participate in discussions about resonance control in a forthright and unbiased manner withour regard to whether or not ... | |
| Purpose of triangular placement of cones/spikes? Barry, Welcome to Audiogon - your post is like a breath of fresh air - it is clear and easily understood (and of course I happen to share your opinions). | |
| sf power 3 mono Last I heard, SF's folks were recommending Svetlana 6550's, which is what I use in my 160 mono's. This is an excellent new production tube. If you buy these be sure you get the ones made in St Petersburg. Svetlana has sold its name recently. | |
| Best midrange on SS amp ? Well, this will probably be of no help to you as I'm a tube enthusiast, but if I were going to get back into SS I would try to find a pair of Threshold SA1's (class A Mono's) built in the late 80's and spend some bucks to get them rebuilt (if even... | |
| Details don't mean a thing IMHO you can't get too much real detail HOWEVER, what is peddled as "more detail and more highly resolving" which is usually said in conjunction with "expanded stage and depth of image" is, more often than not,nothing more that either a slight rec... | |
| Turntable Advice I've nothing against the VPI but if I were going to start again, and did not intend to spend big bucks following the upgrade path - I'd opt out with a Nottingham Horizon with a Rega arm. Its been review well and has a pretty fair following. | |
| Which preamp to buy in the 2000.00 range used Find a Threshold Fet 10e - it would be a perfect match and they sell at about $750 =/- when they appear. Very neutral and natural presentation for SS :-). | |
| Loud "pop" heard when switching sources Sounds like a grounding problem - try disconnecting your satellite lead and see if it continues. | |
| Turntable hum??? Help Are your turntable cables passing near a transformer on any of your other equipment? | |
| Purpose of triangular placement of cones/spikes? Sonically, I doubt that it makes much difference. I prefer four adjustible corner points mainly because it makes a more stable platform - less likely to tip over (speakers). But three points (adjustible or not) are much easier to level, as Pmotz s... | |
| Your favorite recent discovery Rustem Hayroudinoff playing Rachmaninov's 24 Piano Preludes. Outstanding playing and the recorded sound of the piano is full bodied and excellent. Highly recommended for anyone interested in classical piano music. | |
| Please help, obsessive audiophile question FWIW, I've had this problem, perhaps to a slightly lesser degree, using tubes and SS with dynamic and electrostats, in several home. Drove me crazy (no snide comments please)because its not constant. Some days its spot on - some days I can center ... |