nmmusicman
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| Good speaker match for Mcintosh MC275 IV Zenblaster-Yes I have both the bi-wire and tri-wire Black Orpheus speaker cables as I also own Alon 1's, and Alon Lotus SE mk ll speakers as well and the MIT2 Bi-wire cables are superior in all 3 cases. Yes the Black Orpheus are a superb match wit... | |
| Good speaker match for Mcintosh MC275 IV I am having excellent results driving a pair of Nola Viper 1A's with an MC275 IV. However, it took replacing all the stock 275 tubes with Genalex/Mullard and upgrading to the optional AlNiCo magnet midrange drivers on the Vipers to really lock in ... | |
| Room Treatment: Whatcha Got? I have ASC 1/4 rounds in the corners from floor to ceiling behind the speakers, ASC tube traps on rear wall and side walls behind speakers. An ASC 1/4 round in rear corner behind listening futon, other rear corner is open via a door. RPG studio fo... | |
| Outlets Speaking of hard wiring, I hard wired/soldered the power cord of my high current balanced power transformer to the romex cable at the wall and it was a revelation and showed just how much that ALL outlets degrade the PRaT and sound quality. I left... | |
| Outlets I have tried quite a few outlets in my system(s) from all the Oyaide outlets including the R1, PS Audio PP down to the Arrow Hart's and have to say that the Oyaide WPC-Z wallplate mounting system is an essential part in dropping the noise floor an... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 I am using Mullard CV4004's in place of the stock 12AX7's in my MC275 V with very good results. Musicality and instrument definition greatly improved with the Mullards over the stock 12AX7's. Also found that the amp benefitted from using Audio Res... | |
| Anyone use CD tweaks Hands down, the best CD tweak I have found is to power the CD player with true AC regenerated power with the AC frequency set to ~90hz. This pretty much negates all other CD tweaks IME. I use a Walker Audio precision AC motor controller which best... | |
| Speaker upgrade - suggestion "Setup is in a large / bright room, I like to crank it loud, and currently listen to jazz, rock, latin, and almost everything else."May I suggest you start by addressing your room acoustics before changing out your speakers? The room your system i... | |
| Can I use my passive preamp with tube amps? I am using a Sonic Euphoria passive preamp that employs autoformers with a McIntosh MC275 V with outstanding results. Rock solid extended bass, huge soundstage with what sounds like limitless high's and a naturally delineated midrange. Of course, ... | |
| Mixed driver tube for Mcintosh MC275 in my MC275 V with very good results. Musicality and instrument definition greatly improved with the Mullards over the stock 12AX7's. Also found that the amp benefitted from using Audio Research tube dampers on V1, V2 and V5. Tried the dampers on ... | |
| Anyone use CD tweaks is to power the CD player with true AC regenerated power with the AC frequency set to ~90hz. Pretty much negates all other CD tweaks IME. I use a Walker Audio precision AC motor controller which bested a PS Audio PP600. The Walker unit employs bot... | |
| Driving ALON V with CJ Premier 11: Can I improve? I'm not sure but do the Alon V's have seperate inputs for Low, Mid and Highs? If so, you would need to use the set of jumpers that came with the V's and I would suggest using those to jump from the High input over to the Mid input or to avoid the ... | |
| Driving ALON V with CJ Premier 11: Can I improve? May I suggest trying a pair of MIT Bi-wire speaker cables before changing out the components. I have Alon 1's, Alon Lotus MK ll's and Nola Viper 1A's and they all benefited from MIT Bi-wire cables over the Acarian Black Orpheus cables. The sound w... | |
| REL Subwoofer Cable Upgrade? Absolutely. I use a REL Stadium lll and a REL Strata lll in 2 different systems and upgrading to the Synergistics Research Resolution Reference active cable made a substantial improvement in both sub's performance.Both blended MUCH better and had ... | |
| Pass Labs Power Cord I found my Aleph 3 to benefit from an aftermarket PC which is a Wireworld Electra lll and also the TEL wire PC but the biggest benefit was powering the Aleph 3 with a high current balanced power conditioner. Powering the Aleph 3 with the Platinum ... |