nsgarch
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| PAD Musaeus vs. Venustas I have an all-Venustas system (plus a Musaeus IC for my tuner, and a couple of Dominus power cords.) There are multiple possible answers to your question, but they depend on your gear -- in terms of matching the capabilities to the capabilities of... | |
| Why Do You Still Have Vinyl if You Don't Play it? Mitch -- I agree, this shouldn't be a discussion about formats. Which is why I proposed the idea that there are no "old formats". I realize now that 'old' was a poor choice of words; by 'old' I didn't mean a format's chronological age. so much as ... | |
| Why Do You Still Have Vinyl if You Don't Play it? RE: "Chewing Gum for the Ears"Is my audiophile homage to the great Frank Lloyd Wright, who absolutely HATED wall paper! And used to refer to it as "Chewing gum for the eyes." ;--). | |
| Why Do You Still Have Vinyl if You Don't Play it? Mitch, thanks for starting this thread. It's a topic so many of us think about, so it's refreshing to read everyone's slant on the issue. They are many, and they each make sense -- to someone -- sort of -- which is why I think it remains such a 's... | |
| Tube amps known to have a low damping factor? (Limited) damping in tube amps is not due to the power output tubes, but to the magnetic hysteresis (lag) of the power output transformers. SS amps (*most of them) where the speaker (load) is connected directly to the power output transistors, can... | |
| Just Purchased Infinity RS2B / RSIIb owned RS 2.5 Marchand Electronics has been around as long as I can remember (we're talkin' half a century!) and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Infinity "borrowed" their equalizer from this unit, although in a "watered-down" version. Come to think of it,... | |
| SRA change from 140g to 180g Glai, read this thread I posted some time back (including pictures!) and all will be revealed:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1140840022&openmine&zzNsgarch&4&5#Nsgarch. | |
| Anyone have experiance with KLH-9 power supplies? It's not THAT hard to remove the wax. I did it for a friend who has a pair of 9's. The reason it's not THAT hard, as I recall, is that you don't have to remove ALL the wax. Just enough to get to the components.We tipped the unit on its side over s... | |
| what's causing a SME 3 to stick after a few spins? Leisual, I'm happy that things seemed to resolve on their own. If it were me, I probably couldn't just let it go at that, and I'd still want to know what caused the symptoms in the first place, but that's me ;--)In any case, should the problem ret... | |
| Purist Audio Speaker cable question Other than the Proteus Provectus, which has solid conductors, the rest of the Purist line (as you go up the model range) varies as follows:1.) Conductors: total wire gauge (AWG = American Wire Gauge)) as caluclated for EACH conductor (signal, sign... | |
| Purist Audio Speaker cable question The Proteus cables are Purists only (I think) solid core conductor cables; and for ease of management, the speaker cable comes in two separate runs (+ and --) per cable like the Virtual Dynamics cables.There are certain considerations when choosin... | |
| Purist Audio Speaker cable question I have an all Purist Venustas system right down to the tonearm cable, except for a couple of killer Purist Dominus power cords, and I love how everything sounds. Pricewise, Venustas has always been, and still is, the best value in the entire line;... | |
| Phono preamp directly into amp? You'll of course need a phono amp. You didn't say what Wadia unit you have, nor is your system posted. But if your Wadia has digital inputs, I'd recommend a high quality analog-to-digital converter (like the Wadia 150) to receive the output of you... | |
| what's causing a SME 3 to stick after a few spins? Leisual -- Did you change the cartridge too? I wasn't betting on the cartridge, but it's worth taking the time to rule it out. That said, (and for what it's worth ;--) here's what I think (and I truly hope I'm wrong) but I believe there's a proble... | |
| Adding a 2nd center channel? I totally agree with everything Kr4 said. However, if you just feel like screwing around (to see what happens ;--) you might try placing the two center channel speakers back to back; i.e., one pointed AWAY from the room, and with its speaker cable... |