newbee
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| Audio Research VT100 MK1 and LS15 HELP!!! FWIW, Some European sourced small tubes do flash on turn-on. Not at all unusual and it is not significant. I suspect, as others, that your problem may be speaker location (set up in your room) combined with the basic difference in the sound of you... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues Re room acoustic's - my room is 13.5x19.5x9. I have Silverline Boleros. I'm not familiar with your speakers but I've certainly encountered your issues in setting up my speakers. I did something based on what many professionals do when setting up ... | |
| Does anyone know the bias on a VTL 225 with KT90 tubes in them? Try Google and review VTL's biasing instructions. I don't believe the values would vary between KT88's or KT90's, and they tell you how to do it if this is your first time out. Good luck. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados For adventurous Bach enthusiasts - '13 ways of looking at the Goldberg' by Lara Downes on Tritone Records (CD). A very interesting journey into the possible. Enjoy if you can. BTW, this lady, who I really enjoy, has an interesting discography. Fo... | |
| Acoustics You might consider changing your listening position - too close to a wall for example can really boost the bass. Inches can make a difference. If you haven't already done so, you might check out the Cardas set up - it is at worst a good starting p... | |
| Acoustics As dweller suggests move your speakers about - the spikes you are experiencing suggest to me that they are the result of room nodes which can be changed by speaker relocation. Another possibility is to use a sub woofer crossed over at 120hz +/- an... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert, Nice headphones - I have a pair and use them often with my Marantz CDP which has a built in headphone outlet. I can see why you like them. I found they had a warmer mid range than my Senn's and were very easy to listen to and much more c... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados jim204, Re 'smaller forces', i.e. big works with a chamber orchestra. I totally agree that there is little more refreshing especially with the old warhorse works by Beethoven, Brahms, & Schubert. I first discovered this with Harrnoncourt's Bee... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Re Liszt, I'm not so fond of his original works for solo piano but I really do enjoy a lot of his transcriptions (depending of course on the performer) and his Annes which I listen to more (usually in its parts) than the famous to B minor sonata. ... | |
| Do I go from a Primaluna HP Integrated to Schiit Freya+ and a pair of Aegir Amps? Good question, I'm curious as well. But they are pretty new so I don't expect to hear much soon. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados jim204 & two left ears, I agree with you both on a high ends systems inability to reproduce anything close to real over a home system. For me though a modest system and a good recording can serve well in bringing me me into the music itself . ... | |
| Do you have to be “in the mood?” Music seems to always be 'on' in my house, albeit a lot of it is in a background mode. For me mood is not an issue so much as opportunity. When I want to hear what is on the disc in it's purest sense I use headphones (I have a dedicated headphone ... | |
| Is there such a thing??-- Tube Preamp Question Wow, you have a lot of speakers! From the spec’s on the speakers and the Amp I would guess that the greatest noise issue would develope when you are using the Spatials. Very high sensitivity amp (2.9v) coupled with high speaker efficiency (95db) w... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados "Earl Wild was one of the great pianists of the 20th century"Hard to argue with that statement and, FWIW, he was made in America. :-)I'm very partial to his recordings for solo piano, and especially his transcriptions. Easy recommendations for 'Ra... | |
| Is there such a thing??-- Tube Preamp Question Tube preamps which are properly set up AND matched to associated equipment do not have to be a problem, but the potential for problems do exist when the amps and preamps output gain it too much for the speakers you utilized. High sensitivity speak... |