raquel
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| Buddy Holly and Elvis on SACD I have the DCC double LP of Elvis - there is a lot going on in Elvis' early stuff that a hi-rez system will show, to the point where I, as a middling Elvis fan, could finally see what all of the fuss was about. I have two Buddy Holly compilations ... | |
| Helius Omega Tonearm That arm is a common choice for the Townshend Rock 7 table - very nice arm. According to a friend who knows, it works well with the Ortofon A-90. | |
| NY Times articles about turntables I was impressed that the author spelled "turntable" correctly. | |
| Tube Preamp/solid pwr amp or solid pre/ tube pwr I'm surprised to see so many people advocating a solid-state preamp with a tube amp - they are correct. But as has been hinted at, few tube amps are able to adequately drive typical modern loudspeakers, which feature low impedances in the bass - o... | |
| TAD Reference 1, Rockport Altair, EA MM3 The TAD, with its beryllium drivers, is more forward than the Rockport, which mostly uses warm-sounding Audio Technology drivers (its tweeter is also beryllium). The MM3's is more neutral, its character falling in between the two. The MM3's have a... | |
| Bourbon and rock n roll Hirsch 16 year.Most Pappy Van Winkle's, especially the 20 and 23 years (I think those are the years - too much bourbon years ago pickled the brain). | |
| Will Accuphase A65 Class A be sufficient for Magic There are a couple of factors that need to be considered. First, is your room medium to small in size? If yes, you need a lot less power than you would if your room were large. Second, I just looked at the specs and see that the amp weighs 95 lbs.... | |
| darTZeel NHB-108 users please check in ... Joeinid:Most darT owners are using either Evolution Acoustics or Jena Labs cabling with the amp (interconnects, speaker cables, and power cords). Jena is super stuff, but Evolution would be my choice with darTZeel if I weren't already invested in ... | |
| Playback Design with Hifi tuning fuse My experience would be stop playing with fuses until you get direction from the manufacturer. | |
| Rowland Model 6 monoblocks - my thoughts Tiff Needle:Congratulations on the Model 6's with batteries - they are superb amps. Jonathan Tinn, who is the U.S. distributor for darTZeel and a former Von Schweikert dealer, used to suggest Model 6's for Von Schweikerts if his customers couldn't... | |
| Stores or dealers in Sao Paulo? One more thing further to what Tubegroover wrote - Brazil used to be super-cheap for Americans, but now the exchange rate is in their favor and the economy is hot, so generally speaking, Brazil has become really expensive for Americans. I was in S... | |
| Stores or dealers in Sao Paulo? Aside from buying something from Audiopax, which is based in Rio, Brazil is probably the last place I would buy electronics. My recollection is that the tax on imported electronics is north of 90%, and there is also a significant distributor mark-... | |
| Best current 845 Tubes TJ and Sophia (and Full Music) are the same tube, yes, but Sophia tubes are specially culled, i.e., they are the best of that factory's production.KR makes an 845 tube and I would expect it to be the best of currently available tubes. KR had a bad... | |
| Are Mcintosh Tube Amps really all that? I think a fair response is that McIntosh makes decent stuff, some of which is quite good sounding. I do not know what current production build quality is like. It's important to point out that the company has gone through a number of ownership cha... | |
| VAC 30/30 & Sophia 6SN7's I had read your post and forgotten what you and Almarg had written about the voltage of the Sophia 6SN7's. I was commenting mostly to point out that driver tubes used in the Renaissance amps must be the higher voltage GTB or GTA spec 6SN7's - this... |