perazzi28
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| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Agree strongly with the Electron Kinetics Amps. All of the Eagle 2 series power amps are stable down to 2 ohms. They became the building platform for all of the mono amps that followed.I managed to purchase a pair of 11 prime mono blocks recently ... | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? Good comparison but why limit your choice to either A or B? These two approaches have taken their turntables to their scientific limit. "audiotroy" is on to it. Enter George Merrill/Robert Williams and the Merrill-Williams R.E.A.L. 101.2 Turnta... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple If your budget will allow, try a pair of Wilson-Benesch Vertex Loudspeakers. No serious listening for about 200 hours of break-in.. Extremely revealing of your upstream components, but they absolutely disappear. Plus a very Hi Wife Acceptance Factor! | |
| Amps/Preamps for Rockport Aviors In my opinion there are preamps that sound worse but none better than the Sutherland N-1. Ron Sutherland incorporates his finest phono stage and line stage in a single chassis. Extreme build quality and works anywhere with any line voltage sans s... | |
| Time for a change. Need some Advice genez.....is pretty much on point. Near field listening is to often overlooked for achieving awesome sound in smaller acoustic spaces.I just completed a system doing just this very approach and the results are simply ridiculous!Using:Wilson-Benes... | |
| XLR interconnects Experimentation with Single Ended RCA interconnects and XLR interconnects may prove enlightening.Many preamplifiers have no issue driving single ended interconnects for a fair distance. My interconnects are 5' long and I have no issues. It can al... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) You will be well served to evaluate some new loudspeakers keeping in mind the amount of space that they will have to fill. It is really often underappreciated what your choice of preamplifier and amplifier(s) can have in a system. There can be a ... | |
| Turntable? Anyone entering the vinyl arena would be well served to check this out:http://hifigem.com/PolyTableSUPER12.htmlGeorge Merrill has an entry level table as well: http://hifigem.com/polytable.htmlHe is a wealth of honest experience and abilities. Bes... | |
| Building an all analog system around Magnepan .7 for 4K and under One should not overlook a really good analog TT/TA setup that is somewhat new. Check out the following: The PolyTable SUPER 12 http://hifigem.com/PolyTableSUPER12.htmlGeorge Merrill has been making TT's since 1979 and this model is getting rave re... | |
| Feedback through turntable Probably feedback, just do some good isolating on the turntable.Get rid of the low pass filter. Do not use it as it changes polarity and you loose micro-details, micro-dynamics, and imaging.Some woofer pumping will be present as a good preamp will... | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? Generally speaking having 2 dedicated circuits can cause more problems than it will solve. If the two dedicated circuits are connected to the two halves of the balanced AC line you have just created a gigantic antenna. You can save yourself a lot ... | |
| Please Help Me Choose a Speaker Cable Kimber Bifocal X | |
| Why Single-Ended? Home audio, especially 2 channel systems with analog being the primary source will rarely benefit from balanced connections. Adding balanced operation in this scenario will only add more circuitry with no real benefit and likely have deleterious e... | |
| Is it too bright or is it high resolution? One must wonder if a "to bright" presentation may be the result of harmonic distortion. Whether this is an amplifier issue a preamplifier issue or the interplay between the electronics and speakers. I am certain that we all want all of the detail... | |
| Tube vs Solid State I've heard some awesome things about the Bricasti M28 Mono Blocks paired specifically with large B&W loudspeakers. No personal experience. As far as preamplifiers are concerned, in my not so humble opinion, there are only preamplifiers that s... |