raquel
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| 16K to Spend. Help me make the end all Upgrade. Commenting upon some of the above items:Generally, I would not spend all that money on speakers for a medium to small-size room that will also serve as a dining room. I would budget $10k for speakers and spend the rest on the other parts of your s... | |
| A Few Audio Truths I've Learned? Eweedhome: You have a sense of humor with timing. Very entertaining. One comment regarding above the above wisdom, IN CAPS:"12. Find the Audiophile club in your town or city. Nothing is more helpfull [sic] then advice of fellow audiophils [sic] an... | |
| Any fans of Jordi Savall? What is there on vinyl? Jordi Savall: I have scoured used bins in France and found nothing. Very frustrating. | |
| How do I turn off my Pass Labs X1? Audioangel:Most types of high-end audio electronics are best left on 24/7, and many manufacturers of high-end equipment intentionally do not include on/off switches on their equipment as a result. My Rowland preamp and phono stage cannot be turned... | |
| Buying used vs. New Regarding the comment in the above post stating that only CD players and speakers present a risk of no longer being fixable due to lack of availability of parts, solid-state power amps (and unfortunately, some of the very high-end ones) sometimes ... | |
| what is the best amp you've ever heard Tube: CAT JL-1 Limited Edition monoblocks ($50k).Solid State: My darTZeel ($21.2k).Honorable mention tube: My VAC 70/70 Renaissance Mk. III ($14k).Honorable mention solid-state: My old Rowland Model 6 monos with Rowland battery power supplies ($16... | |
| Specific needs for a new preamp... Rowland Synergy IIi, but it doesn't have a phono stage. With companion Rowland Cadence phono stage, it would cost roughly $4,000-$4,500 used. Other than the darTZeel and Rowland's Coherence II (my preamp), it is the only consumer preamp I am aware... | |
| The best hifi magazine? No need to write to the magazines -- their editors become aware of threads such as this one. Stereophile is superior to the other magazines in my opinion because of John Atkinson's measurements (measurements only tell part of the story, but withou... | |
| Best Power amps in $7000 range The advice given by other posters about using your budget to upgrade other parts of your system at the same time you buy an amp is sound, especially given your speakers. I checked out your Ushers. Fine speakers, but output limited with two midbass... | |
| Best Power amps in $7000 range What intrigues me about your question is why you seek a 300-400 watt/channel amp at all. Do you run your speakers in a huge room, or listen almost exclusively to big orchestral music or pounding pop/rock? Compared to a lower powered amp in the sam... | |
| The best hifi magazine? I don't know about the best, but the Absolute Sound ("TAS"), with the exception of Anthony Cordesman, is a joke in its latest incarnation. Most of the reviews state that the component being reviewed is the very best the reviewer has heard - they w... | |
| Verity Audio Parsifal vs. Aerial 10T Two totally different speakers. The Parsifal is a finesse speaker that really can't play big, while the 10T's can do big music, yet are somewhat lacking in finesse. Both are great speakers that do a lot of things right, but they are really not com... | |
| Mono Block tube amp or Stereo Tube amplifier? Tube amps tend to produce heat and monoblocks will heat up a room faster than a stereo amp, as they generally have more output tubes (but not always).Monoblocks mean you will need to buy twice the number of tubes. This can be an expensive differen... | |
| Levinson 36 to 360s help needed Using a 37 transport, I went from a 36 to a 360s, the latter being considerably better. That said, this DAC is now a twelve year old design that is not competitive with the better current CD players (or the two CD players that came after it in my ... | |
| Pops 300B tubes on turn on in my Vac I forgot to respond to your question about whether defective output tubes can damage the amp -- the answer is no, because VAC Renaissance amps have a "sentry" output tube shutdown circuit that shuts down power to any output tube pair that goes out... |