philjolet
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| How do you drive 12 Ohm speakers? in general, tubes like a higher impedance solid state does not | |
| Optimal Placement for Magnepan 3.6? What is your room size?I found with my Maggie 1.6 that the Cardas method worked well and the rule of thirds better but was too intrusive.You can go to the Cardas website to see their formula for speaker placementon a 15 x 21 room the rule of third... | |
| Tube Integrated Amp-Power Filter? you will get as many different answers as there are stars in the skyit is worth trying, buy used and sell it if it does not work | |
| Best Remakes Of All Time ditto Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah | |
| Best Remakes Of All Time I will not say it is better (of course) but Carlos Santana and John McGlaughlin did a version of Coltranes 'A Love Supreme' that is awesome and a classic in my book.Phil | |
| Best place in the system for a good PC? FWIWSome of you may remember Sean who used to post here on Agon a few years back. I bought the VH PCs based on his recommendation that they bettered anything under $500 (in his system) that he tried.For me it was a big step up from the factory sup... | |
| Great recording of William Tell Overture? http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/3/Harmonica-Player-Kills-At-Carnegie-Hall-475094.htmljust for fun watch this videohe does the WTO at the end - about half way thruAMAZING!!!sorry to go off topicPhil | |
| what to expect with new preamp breaking in? grain usually goes away with warmup too... | |
| Best place in the system for a good PC? most believe it will be a big improvementI spent just $70 on my VenHaus PC and it was a huge improvement on both my CD player and my ampI could hear the improvement in the size of the soundstage and a nice open quality (among others) upon first li... | |
| Vandersteen vs. JBL rock music etc. I remember Vandy 2Ci's rocking pretty good - and with an Adcom amplifier, no need to tame the high end either, this was with an old CD player fwiw what you have is likely to be much betterthe Vandys are smooth rockers IMO | |
| how long can you leave a CDP on 'pause'? good question - I learned something (that I suspected but confirmed here) thanks for asking | |
| Ribbon tweeters...out of favor these days? maybe it has more to do with the dispersion and blending with the midrange rather than ultimate performance of just the tweeter itself...just a thoughtalso fwiw I have heard both sound extremely good so there are other factors I imagine | |
| Best Remakes Of All Time Miles Davis versions of Michael Jackson's Human Nature and Cindi Lauper's Time After Time, I heard both in concert and they were superb... | |
| What next after Audience AU24 and Siltech G3? I did not mean to be harsh and maybe it should be noted my setup is all vacuum tubes, fwiw at the time we compared the AU24 with Audio Note AN-V on an all ss system and could not tell the difference.Maybe a good disclaimer is that the AU 24 may be... | |
| What next after Audience AU24 and Siltech G3? I find my Gabriel Gold Revelation MKII a big step up from the AU24 which is thin and lifeless in comparisondisclaimer I do have mine up for sale but it does change my opinion of them in relation to the AU24... |