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| Best Canadian Made Whiskey Does it have to be Canadian or are you just looking for a top rye whiskey, regardless of origin? There are a few small producers in the U.S. who make great products (e.g., Van Winkle has a great rye). Ask Cincy_Bob. | |
| VAC 300.1 compared to VTL 450 Mk II or similar That vintage of VTL's had such mediocre output transformers that they are often helpless in the face of tough loads, notwithstanding their wattage ratings, and VTL was obliged to offer a "Signature" transformer upgrade. The Siegfried vintages, how... | |
| Powerful Tube Amp for SF Strads? The Audio Valve amps are indeed superb and I should have included them in my discussion (I usually do, but forgot). The 400, I believe, is one of the rare high-powered tube amps that truly sounds good. They will be expensive with the current excha... | |
| Powerful Tube Amp for SF Strads? To expand a bit upon the above posts and my own post regarding the CAT amps and their transformers and power supplies, the original CAT JL-1 100 watt/channel monoblocks are gnarling beasts. They contain outrageous hand-wound transformers that weig... | |
| Powerful Tube Amp for SF Strads? You are going to get a lot of suggestions, and since this is Audiogon, most of them bad. Only a tiny handful of tube amps have output transformers and power supplies of the quality necessary to drive speakers that drop below 3 Ohms in the bass, an... | |
| iPod Docks Wadia 170 Transport "From a business standpoint I cannot understand why Apple themselves is not coming out with something."You must be kidding - the market is tiny for the audiophile-quality sound that the Wadia can deliver when taking the digital signal from an IPod... | |
| Tubes for Cal Audio Labs Alpha Processor The tubes fail because people turn their units on and off, this being hard on the tubes. I've owned a Sigma II for almost fourteen years and ran it 24/7 until it went into a second system in a little-used second apartment six years ago. It just we... | |
| Harsh on tubes? Most tube preamps do not pass a lot of current through tubes, and thus the circuit, per se, is not hard on tubes. The issue is that most tube preamps have solid-state rectification (power supplies), and when the preamp is powered up, the tubes are... | |
| what Ipod dock would you buy? I am aware of two audiophile IPod docs - "audiophile" in the sense that they take the digital signal from the Ipod and not the low-fi analog signal. MSB makes a dock that contains a DAC - it is expensive (north of $2k). Wadia makes a $350 dock tha... | |
| What 300B tubes are you using in your VAC amps? "I ask because KH recommended the CP's over the mesh plate".This suggests that Kevin Hayes might recommend meshplates as an option for the Renaissance amps in some circumstances -- he in fact warns people to never use them, as they cannot handle t... | |
| Kimber Monocle XL Adam:The Monacle XL is a very fine cable, but the Kimber Select 3033 is better and not a lot more expensive.That said, be very wary of cable recommendations -- cable synergy is very unpredictable. The smart way to choose cabling is to try various ... | |
| Lie you told your wife to buy equipment? The ARC CD 3 looks just like the ARC CD 3 SE, which looks just like the ARC CD 7 - hope this helps. | |
| Revel Salon2 vs. B & W 802D vs. Wilson W.P.7? We are not "jackasses". But your speakers have a crap tweeter, and you are evidently deaf and a yahoo. | |
| New miles davis cd.... wow The recording has a lot of tape hiss on it. | |
| Can you reccomend a cable for my VAC 140's Kevin Hayes says stay away from anything with network boxes (Transparent, MIT, etc.). I have had very good luck with Kimber Select all-silver and Jena Symphony, but the Kimber has to remain below 2 meters due to its lack of shielding. I seem to re... |