normanthagard
Responses from normanthagard
| Do you build anything for your high fidelity system? If so, what do you make? The current moving-coil phono preamp, 50-watt center channel amplifier, and 120-wpc left rear/right rear stereo amplifier (Published in Audio Xpress magazine) are all of my design and construction. In the past, the front left/right 100-watt pure ... | |
| which turntable for the future? I bought a VPI TNT 3.5 turntable with 10" JMW Memorial tonearm in August 2001. It has been in constant use for over 20 years. Although I had to replace the motor several years ago; VPI promptly supplied me with a new motor at reasonable cost. ... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges I, too, had a Hana SL moving-coil cartridge mounted on a JMW 10" Memorial Tonearm on a VPI TNT 3.5 turntable. It was superb but one channel failed open after a bit more than one year. Before that a Clearaudio Stradivari v2 lasted six years in th... | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer I have a pair of Mac 611 monoblocks driving B&W 802D's that sound wonderful. They replaced eight parallel-series connected Harmon Kardon Citation II tube amps that output over 500 watts/channel at 0,1% THD into those same 'speakers. Sound wa... |