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| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? I hate to ask a question when I have no experience with the components, but if you like the ARC sound, and want to try a solid state amp, have you listened to any of the current ARC solid state amps in the DS series?As for ARC reliability, I have ... | |
| Experience with the Pass Labs XP-15 phono stage? If you are happy with your PH-8 (mine is a "lowly" PH-5) why not consider a step-up transformer rather than an entirely new phono stage? | |
| ARC preamp line up First, you mention solid state. While the SP-5 was a solid state pre-amp, none of the later SP series were; all were tubed. Looking at later SP-series pre-amps, the SP-9 had two tubes, the SP-14 had three, and all the others had more. So there rea... | |
| AUDIO RESEARCH PH7,,, How to adjust pots ? This is one of those cases where a simple phone call to ARC is probably your easiest approach. | |
| Do You Love Music or Do You Love Hi-Fi? Here's a test: how many A'gon members subscribe to either Stereophile or The Absolute Sound, which are primarily about equipment, versus how many subscribe to Gramophone or another publication which is primarily about music recordings? | |
| Turntable and tonearm match Its certainly more obvious with suspended tables such as Linn and Sota, where a heavy arm makes it more difficult to balance out the springs. I'm not so sure why there would be issues with a mass-loaded table, so long as one can set up the pivot t... | |
| Good Tube Amp w/Quatros? From what I've read (and seen myself at one presentation Vandersteen held at Audio Connection in NJ), Richard normally demos with Audio Research equipment, and I believe he voices his speakers with ARC electronics as well. | |
| Which power amplifier match audio research ref 3 I have the "baby version" of the match you are proposing, in my case the ARC LS-17 paired with ARC's 150.2. I think they work very well together driving my Maggies. However, I'm sure you are aware that the 300.2 is one of ARC's first class D ampli... | |
| Class D amps No reason to beat up Nordic, we should welcome newcomers to the forum. Two comments on postings so far:(1) Class "T" is really a class "D" amp. Tripath was one manufacturer of chips for the technology, and ARC called their amp a class "T" simply b... | |
| Linn LP12 Bearing Lube Stan & Everyone Else Who Has Responded: The saga has reached a good conclusion, with some discoveries along the way.First, Stan is (unfortunately) correct, Spinning Dog is indeed going out of business. I spoke with them on the phone today, aft... | |
| Magnepan Crossover Mod Approach? Jaymark: If you haven't already looked, an excellent resource is the Planar Speaker forum over on Audio Asylum. The vast majority of postings relate to Maggies, and there are numerous threads on cross-over mods. One of the more popular was develop... | |
| Linn LP12 Bearing Lube Stanwal: Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the Linn Shop on eBay doesn't stock the oil. The other British audio supplier on eBay (LB Audio) has a specific note that they can no longer supply oil to the U.S. because "Due to heightened securi... | |
| Is there one item you have been wishing for? In athletics, there is a saying "you're only as good as your next race." The equivalent here is that the item I'm wishing for is always the next one after my most recent upgrade. Over the past 3 years or so I've upgraded the amp, pre-amp, phono st... | |
| Different Results between Record Cleaning Machines I have what was a VPI 16 which I upgraded to a 16.5 using VPI's upgrade kit. The upgraded version vacuums significantly better than the original. I suspect that this is contributing to your issue, and strongly recommend the upgrade. The upgrade wo... | |
| Audio Research DS 450 amp......thoughts Let's lower the temperature of this discussion a bit. My objection was simply that if an entire amplifier technology is inferior, I don't understand why a fairly large number of respected manufacturers keep pursuing it.My own experience is a lot l... |