paulfolbrecht
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| Avantgarde Duos - right for me? Front-horns like the Duos are a way to get the dynamics you're missing but so are back horns - Cain & Cain, Carder, Lamhorn, Beauhorn, etc.These designs retain the coherence of the single-driver but add the dynamics of a horn - though they're ... | |
| Dodd Preamp Question Ok, well, the Siemens are so good I don't know if I'll put the Mullards in. Better all-around. Glare definitely gone. One of those no-doubt, don't-have-to-listen-hard changes. | |
| Dodd Preamp Question I now have NOS Mullards and Siemens CCa (the best of ALL 6922 variants according to many in the know).I'll try both and report back.With the stock tubes the Dodd is very good but just occasionally exhibits a bit of treble glare/hardness. | |
| Transformer-coupled tube phono pres Lonestarsouth, step-ups for LO MC have nothing to do with a transformer-coupled output.The reason for the question has to do with a achieving a very low output impedance. With tubed unit, about the only way to do this is with transformers. (Or par... | |
| Budget Low-Capacitance Interconnects Budget is I have used and have much respect for anti-ICs. Didn't know they were on the low-capacitance side. | |
| Tube Phono? MiniMax phono pre is totally silent if properly isolated. | |
| 2-way vs. 3-way I'll just add that the two-way AN/Es have *far* better dynamics than any boxed three-way speaker I've ever had, and I have had a couple. They have very nearly horn-like dynamics... | |
| 2-way vs. 3-way Perhaps you missed the conditions I gave for being able to do it "ALL" (you missed that too) - "cover the enormous bandwidth with two drivers and do this with low distortion and even dispersion at the higher SPL levels necessary to sit far back"If... | |
| 2-way vs. 3-way "Far field" is 8' from the speakers?And a two-way just cannot "do it"? Wow. | |
| Rega RB300 arm & Sumiko Blackbird - good match? I am now running a Blackbird on the RB300 into my Shindo Monbrison. It's really an excellent combination. | |
| Merrill tables I hear there are even new turntables that do-away with vinyl and encode the music stream in 0s and 1s. This has the huge advantages of no noise, huge dynamic range, and media that never wears out. And they're smaller discs too. Truly, perfect soun... | |
| Phono Pre with AES AE-3 The EE MiniMax substantially betters all units mentioned by a fairly wide margin in my experience. I've owned or heard all units mentioned. The MiniMax is within shooting distance of the best of the best.No reason why it wouldn't mate nicely with ... | |
| Preference for separate phono stages? I would expect the Doshi folks to say it's the best there is. It might be - would it be better or worse with two boxes and two power supplies?(To the person who implied the only trade-off is cost - that's not true: the extra IC needed, with more c... | |
| Audio Note digital Your A-N DAC 2.1 is near-SOTA and should be killer with a decent USB source, like a Mac (Mini or otherwise) USB to the DAC (what's with the Squeezebox????) playing CDs ripped **LOSSLESS** with error-correction **ON**.I doubt you'll find a transpor... | |
| Rega RB300 arm & Sumiko Blackbird - good match? I tried a higher-end Grado on my RB300 once and it was AWFUL. Slow and mushy, rolled-off. Sold quickly. It was not an adjustment problem. |