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| Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga?...Gag Me? I saw Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga recently on one of the late night talk shows. I like Tony, but his voice was pretty rough that night so I decided not to buy the CD. But maybe they used some studio magic to fix his vocals on the disc so I may reco... | |
| Floored by the Sound Quality of TEO Liquid Pre I don't know Douglas, I was reading part of your review and saw the part about you moving the piece to a different shelf and then it sounded tighter and much better. I don't know if I could tolerate dealing with a piece that finicky?? Plus it's ve... | |
| Practical ways to deal with impedance/amp issues? I guess you could buy a 6 or 8 Ohm 25 watt (or higher) power resistor and put it in series with the positive speaker lead. It may degrade the sound quality slightly, but probably not much. Anyway, it would be a cheap fix.Good Luck! | |
| Got Static? Yes, I agree with Viridian that if you have a carpet in the room that could be the culprit. So you might try getting your cables up off the floor with cable bridges or whatever nonconductive supports you choose 2" to 4" should work well.Out here i... | |
| Current limit onset definition? Almarg... since the Spectral DMA 180 is 200 Wpc amp into 8 ohms and can deliver 683 Wpc into 2-ohms, wouldn't it look like a melted puddle of sludge at any of the wattage figures you presented? I'm assuming this is wattage pulled out of the wall (... | |
| How to hook up monoblocks amp to single mono spkr Like Onhwy61 said, only use one mono amp and hook it up as you normally would negative to negative and positive to positive. Then set your preamp to "Mono" playback and you should be fine.If you try to combine both mono amps on one speaker the way... | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? Well yes, I'd say it has pretty much reached the limits of what is possible using the existing phono playback technology.I guess the only point you are missing is that vinyl playback offers some unique musical qualities that are unavailable with t... | |
| Thoughts on potential new system? I'd consider one of the Class-D multi-channel amps from Wyred for sound... they will be significantly lighter, much more energy efficient, and will likely sound as good or better than any of the amps mentioned above.They have a model that offers 5... | |
| Do I really need a preamp? Another interesting amp to check into is the new Ampzilla from Wyred 4 Sound who bought the rights from Spread Spectrum Technologies. I believe it lists for $3000 | |
| Do I really need a preamp? Interesting question. I'm a reviewer for stereotimes.com and I've been looking at the recent Benchmark gear. I requested their new AHB2 amplifier for reveiw which was developed in collaboration with THX. It puts out 100Wpc @ 8ohms and 190Wpc into ... | |
| Rogue Audio It's great to hear a story about an uplifting experience like yours for a change. Rogue Audio is to be commended for their support and fast turn around of your amp. This is the kind of service EVERY company should provide but all too often, they d... | |
| Best Cartridge for technics sl1200mk2 It's a very good turntable and offers high bang for the buck, especially with the KAB upgrades.I don't recall it being particularly picky about cartridge choice. One thing to keep in mind is whether or not your phono preamp will provide enough gai... | |
| Recommend an MC alternative to Clearaudio Maestro The Audio Technica AT33EV is quite good and not too expensive. And a lot of folks like the Denon DL103r. But they are very low output-- about 0.25mV so you'd likely need somewhere between 61 to 72dB of total gain from your phono stage.A lot of fol... | |
| looking for opinions Or you could simply buy a hybrid amp tubes + SS like the Rogue Medusa or the Rogue Sphynx integrated. Then you get the best of both worlds in one box. If your dealer is a Rogue dealer maybe he could get one for you to try out.I have the Medusa in ... | |
| Alternative for VPI springs? Sorbothane pucks work pretty well and VPI even used them instead of springs in their HW19 Jr. model. |