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| AR SP 9 hum/amp compatibility question - HELP FWIW, i have an old sp10 with banana jacks on the back of the pre-amp which must have a jumper connecting them in normal use "otherwise, severe hum and/or oscillation will occur". i don't know if these exist on the sp9 but check it out. if you do,... | |
| Advice on an upgrade dennis, in your original post on your disappointment with the BAT you mentioned that you were hoping for a warm, organic sound. you may recall my comments then. nothing has changed much in my opinion. i think the ML's can sound cold and etched if ... | |
| BAT VKD5 SE vs. Newcastle PART2 dennis, FWIW, i noted your other post requesting suggestions on amps for your speakers. you will recall i suggested earlier that one of your problems could be the synergy between your present amp and speakers, principally because of what you said ... | |
| Best tube amp for my system ---- 1k used???? don't overlook sonic frontiers. an sf 80 properly tubed can sound very good. used they are about 1k +/-. they err on the romantic side of neutral, but not as far as a cj does for expmple. | |
| A tubes vs. Solid State question. Tube-O-Lator. WOW! the ultimate tweak! clueless, after you've used up your first bottle please write up a testimonial for us. or a pan, whatever. FWIW if you can't hear a difference with tubes or value the difference you hear then stay with ss, it... | |
| Preferred recordings and classical labels answer depends on how much value you place on sonics vs performance. your choice of the previn/ashkenazy pc's was excellent one for preformance and a very good one for sonics as well. every label and every performer has their successes and failure... | |
| New Eva Cassidy - "Imagine" i cried when i heard her rendition of Danny Boy, but them i'm irish, what would you expect. imagine is excellent also. the other cuts w/out the band are very enjoyable, i'm just not fond of the cuts with the band as her voice is subsumed in the ba... | |
| Question about Mesa Baron that's why i tried it! sounds like the technician you talked to knew more about the amp than randy. i've found them to be good people and very helpful. bet you learned a bit about tubes from the manual. i did. | |
| Question about Mesa Baron yes - i tried it with both tesla e34l's and svetlana el34,s. i got cherry red tubes using the bias meter settings and i had no way to check plate voltage and try to bias in at a setting appropriate to and el34. i went back to 6L6's. if you're look... | |
| Where does your user name come from? i picked mine for lack of anything else more ironic that came to mind. i was new to internet chat sites but not to audio. it has been interesting to see how often people have thought i was a newbie to audio and acted accordingly. i think about cha... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? sugarbrie, if i admit to being a darwinist does that mean i can't pray to a god? do i get drummed out of the audiophile corp? i think its safer to try to be a darwinian revisionist while attending regular services. lord, its tuff being agnostic, p... | |
| Replacement Styli Cartridges he's trying to set you up for the purchase of a cartridge that he sells. other than that he's full of .......... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? inpepinnovations, i agree that people do tend to look to science for answers to questions they cannot understand, (or a god for that matter). i also agree that some people will hear a difference where no difference exists, i.e. your same wire exam... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? salut, i'm an easy sale for the proposition that people hear the same sound differenty. people can be predisposed to hear, or ignore, certain sounds. physically, the hearing apparatus of each individual is different and the brains interpertations ... | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? you guys know a lot more about cd and sacd than i do. i really know zip about sacd and i would for the sake of this question, at least, grant that it can produce a better than redbook sound. what i want to know is where is the software going to co... |