phd
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| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? I own very large efficient speakers (102db) and although they can easily be powered by a tube push-pull amp tube amp (10 watts per channel) to reasonable and higher levels they still sound really good with the bigger more powerful ss amps. The poi... | |
| Transparent Audio is anything but Transparent More snake oil, I think we have gotten too sophisticated to buy into this nonsense, well at least most of us! | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms The best tonearm is no tonearm. Since that is not practical get one of them fancy wooden tonearms that are hand crafted and are less susceptible to stray electro magnetic pulses. | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off Leave them on all the time or turn them off at night It will not make a big enough impact if you are worried about the environment besides there is not enough audiophiles left to be concerned about. I leave my system on all the time because it sou... | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? Jond, good point, it does only takes one buyer and you have to be patient. | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? audioguiy85, yes that might happen but in the event it does you will see me running down the road with a speaker under each arm, balancing an amp and preamp yelling:: "But they're not getting this!" LOL | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? I'm not a tube guy but I do own the Rogue Metis tube preamp among other things. Nice thing about It is it mutes its circuit until the tubes (6SN7s) stabilizes. It puts out a massive soundstage, a very transparent device, pushes all the right butto... | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results Now if you can figure out how to eliminate the power amp you will have it made. But honestly it depends on the associated equipment if you can successfully eliminate the preamp. My take on this that the preamp is generally the most important compo... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Its kinda of hard to maintain that don't worry be happy attitude.when things are going to hell. But just try and keep a stiff upper lip as things will get better, especially here. in time. Now I'm signing off before I get carpet-bombed. | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? Emergingsoul, what websites did you conduct your search? Offerup, Ebay, US Audio Mart. I have used Ebay on occasions. On Ebay there was a buyer that asked the question: Does anyone sell anything on this website that actually works I did however b... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? Its secretly being bought up by big corporations and then taken to the scrap yard so that you will eventually have to pay their outrageous.prices for the new stuff. Truthfully, it costs too much money to build the new gear as well as the older ge... | |
| How good is good enough? mesch, good answer! | |
| How good is good enough? Here is a true story from the web. A guy has two systems, one cost a million dollars.(the speakers being the most expensive pieces).and the other is a modest system. Groups of people heard both and most everyone liked the sound of the modest syste... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? OK, I think someone is picking on us again. Let me end my post with this highly intelligent statement: "Sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't." | |
| Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ? micelavigne I agree withemergingsoul that your system is a masterpiece of thought and effort. It it is a good thing you have only 10 years involved and not 20 years otherwise you might need a bigger room. Folks this all subjective and there are ... |