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| Summertime ss amp Question I would try a slightly different take on Rleff's suggestion and go with a Rowland Model 2. It's a better vintage of Rowland than the Model 5 (many argue that the Rowland 2/6/8/9 are the best Rowland amps ever made). It puts out 150 watts into 4 oh... | |
| Anything better than 10 guage Romex? Obviously, persons using any wire should check to see that it meets code, and will function properly, wherever they intend to use it. I ran mine in our apartment in Sao Paulo. PS - Being 12-gauge and used in reasonable runs, Belden 83803 does not ... | |
| Anything better than 10 guage Romex? The Belden 83803 - it is spec'd for smoke and fire alarms because the shielding allows it to survive a fire. Very quiet - I used it in one of my apartments when I installed 20-amp dedicated lines for monoblocks. Here is the Belden spec sheet: www.... | |
| VAC Signature MK2a w/phono users I want to add two other points that should have been included in the above post. First, people running small-tube gear with vacuum tube power supplies (rectification) typically should not run such equipment 24/7 because the tubes in the power supp... | |
| VAC Signature MK2a w/phono users Dear Dev:No, I have never owned a VAC preamp. I have, however, owned a VAC Renaissance 70/70 Mk. III amp or Renaissance 140 Mk. III monoblock amps for the last ten years, and have known Kevin for all of those years. I have friends who are quite fa... | |
| Amp level versus line level inputs for subwoofers REL and a number of other sub manufacturers (and manufacturers of speakers with powered woofers) swear that best sound is achieved when sourced from the speaker outputs of the main amp - they claim that the sound is more coherent, as the sub picks... | |
| VAC Signature MK2a w/phono users A superb tube preamp - congratulations. The manual says "150 hours", but count on 250 hours for 95% of peak performance, and, like most very high-end two channel gear, 1,000 hours for it to fully open up in a highly resolving system. Kevin Hayes, ... | |
| Best Value in Used Bryston Amps and Monoblocks Putting together a system with the equipment choices used by the manufacturer of a key component in a system (here, the speakers) certainly makes sense - I do it myself - but there is a lot to a manufacturer's choice, and in many cases, they choos... | |
| Best Value in Used Bryston Amps and Monoblocks Like virtually all other high-powered amps, Bryston amps use feedback to stabilize the circuit. While they are reasonably clean-sounding and solidly constructed, the feedback and all of the output devices required to achieve high wattage make for ... | |
| Tonearms of exotic materials- esp. Carbon? On the best arms, wand material will be dictated by the cartridge used. The Schroder Reference, for example, is available with several different types of woods, as well as carbon fiber. It is my understanding that the woods have superb damping pro... | |
| Cary SLP05 vs. Audio Research LS-26 The SLP 05 is quite a good preamp - it would be considered the ugly stepsister in few system - it's at least a notch above the LS-26. The fair comparison would be with the Ref 3. The SLP 05 has a very open, transparent, "triode-y" sound - it's bui... | |
| PS AUDIO P500 as a Turntable speed controller? Just be certain that you are not running other components from the PS300 that could be harmed by the different frequency. In this regard, when the Power Plants were introduced, some manufacturers claimed that use of PS Audio multiwaves with their ... | |
| The $5000.00 Complete System Challenge You've now asked two questions, and here are responses in reverse chronological order:1) Speakers for up to $5,000/pair. Assuming you have a medium to large room, Vienna Acoustics Mahler (app. $4,000/pair used) or Dynaudio 3.3 (app. $3,000/pair us... | |
| Help buying fullrange speakers for $1500 "Full-range" means a speaker that can cover all ten octaves, 20 Hz. to 20,000 Hz., and in particular, that has flat bass to 20 Hz. - such speakers are rare and very expensive by most people's standards. Assuming that you mean "basically full-range... | |
| Boulder 865, Vitus SS-010 or Karan KA I 180& 8207;? The above post regarding the darTZeel sounds correct, as does the comment about the Boulder sounding dry. The darTZeel is the solution if you can afford it. |