pmboyd
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| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? What people's experience been with and without Merlin RCS, standard and master? Do they generally make a difference, and if so, how much? Are they more effective with tube or solid state amps? | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? How do high-hats and brushes sound with Spendors and Merlins? | |
| Integrated amp, best conversion 220 to 110 volts? Nope, need to replace the transformer. The question is: Where do I get a reasonably priced AUDIO GRADE torroid? | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? Overly "polite" is not desirable either. Do any of these options qualify as overly polite? My tubed preamp does give me some leeway for "tuning." And I have a large menagerie of NOS flavors.I wonder how the various recommendations stack up in term... | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? About Merlin TSM needing "tubes to really shine"... I have a tubed dac and a tubed preamp, but ss monoblocks (albeit designed to sound like a tubed amp). Hmmm. | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? Thanks, Rgs92 and Clio09. Now there's the kind of substantive input I like! | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? Harbeth and Spendor: What are their notable respective STRENGTHS? What are their notable respective WEAKNESSES? | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? So far Harbeth and Spendor get the most votes. Others recommend: Vandersteen, Magneplanar, Ohm, Shelby, Holistic, Reynaud, Von Schweikert, Aerial and Green Mountain.No votes for Fritz Carbon 7 or Merlin MMI or MME? | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? I'm not looking for "perfect" speakers. I'm looking for speakers that make the best compromises possible at the 2K price point, with lack of harshness or hardness at the top of priority list. | |
| Speakers free of grain, glare and steel? Thanks for all your input. Remember, the parameter is 2K... ie, Aerial 5's fall way outside. Also, which Ohm Walsh (number)? Which Spendor? Which Harbeth? | |
| Integrated amp, best conversion 220 to 110 volts? Yes, there are plenty of transformers listed on EBay but are they "audio quality"? I doubt it. Power supply is critically important; it all starts with power... | |
| Integrated amp, best conversion 220 to 110 volts? So where can I get a reasonably priced audio-grade torroid or other xformer for the amp? | |
| Integrated amp, best conversion 220 to 110 volts? Audio tech says the torroid is custom made and there aren't two primary windings so I have to either replace it or use a step-up xformer. Suggestions? | |
| Integrated amp, best conversion 220 to 110 volts? Aha. OK, thanks, I'll take it to an audio tech to check it out! | |
| Integrated amp, best conversion 220 to 110 volts? Thanks for the tip, Lewinskih01. There aren't any extra wires coming off the torroid, however -- all wires are being utilized. This suggests to me that I need to replace the transformer. |