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| Tube rolling question for VK75 SE owners I have a VK-60 with Raytheon 6SN7 and they sound VERY nice. Might work in a 75SE as well. | |
| BAT or Levinson I'm in a similar conundrum. I also have a BAT VK-60 driving AP Virgos and there is also nothing wrong with this setup. But the one thing that keeps disturbing me is that small amount of noise coming from the BAT. It's not an issue when music is pl... | |
| Will a DVD player work with a computer monitor? Maybe have a look at the Samsung MP170 monitor (17"). It is a LCD flat panel, which also doubles as a TV (the tuner is part of the monitor - no TV card needed etc.). It also has two additional video inputs, which should accept the DVD signal. IMHO... | |
| Try this simple DIY interconnect cable. This is basically the Chris Venhaus design, which can be found here: http://www.venhaus1.com/diysilverinterconnects.html. This particular recipe uses thin (28 - 32 gauge is recommended) silver wire.Based on this design, I built an XLR interconnect... | |
| Volume Control? Actually, I'm a happy owner of a Placette RVC, but I just ordered that Bent Audio TVC kit (with the silver transformer upgrade). I hope, it'll improve dynamics and PRAT a little while maintaining that wonderful transparency and musicality of the P... | |
| 5 most overrated movies ever...... Hmm, I wonder whose rating is the standard here by which to measure the overrating? Anyway, I find most Hollywood stuff pretty bad and overrated (two thumbs up - anybody?). But some of it is pretty enjoyable, though, just for that reason (however,... | |
| New Lowther Drivers. Twl, I'd be very interested to hear about your experiences with these Voight pipes, since this is a project I'm also considering in the long run (being very satisfied with my current system, I want to keep myself busy with building a SET amp and i... | |
| What if you had an entire week..... 1. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo2. Bjork - Debut or maybe Post3. Kruder & Dorfmeister - on K7/DJ Kicks4. Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown5. Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife6. Dolly Parton - The Grass is Blue7. Mahler - Symphony... | |
| WEL -- Wife Equivalent Language The other day my wife referred to the tubes as "lamps". Cracked me up. | |
| Passive, Balanced, Remote Pre? I'm pretty happy with my Placette RVC. But as a more cost effective alternative you could consider a transformer-based attenuater. Bent Audio has some kits available (around 800$, they come with RCA AND XLR inputs and outputs - an advantage of the... | |
| Male Jazz singers - any recommendations? Thanks for all these great suggestions. Just went on another shopping spree at my local Towers and picked up a Mel Torme cd (lulu's back in town). Great album, I'm going to check out more suggestions. Thanks again. | |
| What Would You Do? Check on the output impedance of the Jupiter! If it's the same as the Planet (around 10 kOhm) it's a very bad match with your passive. Had a Planet hooked up to a Placette passive for a while and it sounded terrible (passives work better with a lo... | |
| Anyone heard the KR Enterprise Antares???? Seems to be an interesting amp. Is it also available in a monoblock configuration? Also, how are the other KR tube amps in comparison? And how much might this Kronzilla monster (these tubes are humongous!) cost? | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? Why's everybody bashing the Avantgarde horns? They look totally cool, I like them (if anybody wants to give away a pair...). But one ugly hunk of speaker is the Lagacy Audio Whisper. Cheesy grandma-style heavy oak cabinet resting on some balloney ... | |
| Really dumb question about Atmasphere amps Zaikesman - that is exactly what I thought. Maybe you can just turn the amp around - would look a bit funny, though and biasing wouldn't be to easy ,either. |