newbee
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| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high I used Rothwells on my SP10 going into a Mesa Baron. The Mesa worked best with low gain and the Rothwell 10db did the job without noticible side effects. If your line section is quiet enuf you can use the Rothwells between the source and the pre-a... | |
| What Instrument would you listen to? Solo piano for sure, an instrument I'm very familar with, live and recorded. But as you said, its not the only thing I listen to when auditioning stuff. | |
| can I get your input on a inexpensive pre-amp Do you have a budget? What amp are you going to use? | |
| top Mahler on vinyl Best? You jest! :-)But FWIW, on vinyl, Bernstein 60's cycle, 80's cycle, and not to be missed, his 1979 9th with the Berliner Phil on DG.Also Levine, Abbado, Tennstedt, and some even like Solti's.I hope you are not overlooking Digital, Mahler has ... | |
| PrimaLuna Prologue 5 and tube upgrades FWIW I agree with David re EI 12AX7A's. These tube have a bit more gain than others, excellent clarity and extended highs. If you buy NOS make sure they are tested, and buy an extra in case you have a failure.I don't know what small tubes Primalun... | |
| It's time for a good CD player. Consider the Marantz 8004. It gets great reviews, cost about $1000 new, and plays SACDs. I just bought it's big brother the SA11S3 and I'm impressed! And its not even broken in yet. | |
| cd player Better I don't know, but FWIW I'm breaking in a new Marantz SA11S3 and I'm impressed. Compared to Wadia, Raysonic, and BAT units which I have connected it is more detailed without being harsh (no digititis). More body than the Wadia, less transpar... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? Real 'live' violin sound is hard to hear listening to recordings, either massed or solo. To some degree you can simply charge this off to recording techniques, i.e. microphone placement. You usually are quite some distance from a violin when you h... | |
| Do not buy any Sonus Faber used Mtrot, You may be right, and while Sumiko's policy sort of sucks, I think folks who buy really high end stuff that costs mucho dollars in the first place really arn't thinking much of resale value. That is an affliction of the poor(er) who rarely ... | |
| tube amp storage By my experience several years has never been a problem with tube amps, large and small. | |
| Audio Horizon Pre Owners - Tube recommendations? I don't own an AH. I don't know what tone spectrum, if any, you are seeking. That said, of new production (cheap!) tubes, JJ 6922's are very good, but a bit on the warm side of neutral. On the cold side of neutral, and not quite as cheap you can g... | |
| Help me diagnose the problem Seems to me that it is possible that when your first tube shorted out that it burned out a resistor in the bias circuit for that tube. A very common occurence in tube amps for this to happen. Some times the tube comes up when changed but the bias ... | |
| Mc Intosh vs other brands And we should care about something an unidentified person said in an internet forum? Especially when it lacks any specificity. | |
| Is it possible to have an accurate speaker I don't know. How do you define accurate? How do others define accurate? What conditions would have to exist in order for one to know what accurate actually sounds like? Maybe 'warm' actually is accurate. Don't know. | |
| My amp has no faults I'm sure there is an amp without faults, but in order to determine which one it might be we would need a perfect speaker. You think? |