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| Jolida for Meadowlarks? KT-88's as output tubes improve the bass alot on the Jolida 502a | |
| Sound without the Preamp ? Joe re ULTIMATE ATTENUATOR. I need to be more careful with Friday posts after the second magarita. The shunt to ground that I referred to is the Ultimate Attenuator from Electronic Visionary Systems. I use the balanced version with my Melos Solois... | |
| Ideas on building a listening room!! In general I agree with Wombat but in every construction project that has a utilitarian bent (good sound) there is a tension between aesthetics and engineering. If you spend all that money and get a bad sounding room why bother. Surface modificati... | |
| Sound without the Preamp ? toMbhcid: In many combinations with a passive preamp what you have heard as to loss of "musical" properties matches my experience. If your CD player or DAC was designed to drive a power amp with an itegrated volume control that's one thing. If the... | |
| Best musician in the world? Hans, how good to hear from you. I didn't know that the ISP's had managed to install in Valhalla. | |
| Ideas on building a listening room!! I spent a few hundred bucks on an acoustical engineer who has done several well known recording sutios in the Bay area. It was some of the best money I spent. On the construction side if you are going to get the most out of the designs you will ha... | |
| Your favorite Cello recording to opus88. Great suggestion. And yes the CD reissue doesn't capture the beautiful tone in the second movement but it has to be the original Living Stereo vinyl. The vinyl reissue is worse than the CD. | |
| Sound without the Preamp ? I found the same thing removing a top end tub preamp and going directly into my tube monoblocks BUT only after changing my DAC and fiddling with to get the right cables. You were fortunate that it worked on the first try. | |
| Your favorite Cello recording Brahms Double Concerto Szell/Rostropovitch/Oistrakh. EMI 7243 5 66954 2. The recording isn't the best but the tone of the cello interplay with the violin and orchestra is heart stopping beautiful. The overall interpretation is considered one of th... | |
| introducing tube$ into my system I am a big fan of tubes and have owned various ARC CJ and Melos, Marantz and Jolida over the years. In the late 80's I ran for several years with an ARC SP-11 (tube) into either Threshold Stasis Monoblocks or an ARC D-150 and really liked the soun... | |
| Jolida for Meadowlarks? Don't know your speakers but I own the Jolida in my bedroom system. I've owned/own top end ARC, CJ and Melos tube amps and preamps. The Jolida is an outstanding price/performance unit and really easy to listen to, but replace the stock tubes for t... | |
| PS Audio PS-300 one each for mono amps? PS-300 are great on source components, I own two. The have been discussed in other posts on this site. If you really want to drive your power amps I would suggest PS-600. The peak to average power consumption of power amps is very high. If you can... | |
| Best Power Conditioner My AC power has tons of junk yours may not. The 8 gauge ground wire is attached to multiple 12 foot copper rods driven ito the ground outside the listening room and then the preamp ground terminal. There is a seperate 12 gauge ground wire for each... | |
| Best amplifier for original QUAD ESLs? I owned original Quads with the Quad II power amp. I switched to Threshold SA/2 monoblocks and they sounded a lot better. I tried ARC tube powever amps and while they sounded great with the Quads, I preferred the Thresholds. Caveat though, this is... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? re mg123: I think that for most construction the floor makes the most difference. If you have high end speakers with good bass extension, the floors and the walls first act as passive re-radiators and of course the floor vibrates the equipments. M... |