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| Pops 300B tubes on turn on in my Vac Are they solid plate or mesh plate? You should not run mesh plate 300B's with VAC Renaissance amps, as they require a straight WeCo spec 300B - meshplates can't handle the voltage in the circuit. Also, VAC's Renaissance amps all autobias the outpu... | |
| speakers for classical music I contributed the above post about the need for a full-range speaker with a lot of headroom and proper timbre to gets strings right. I was going to stay out, but I've seen the posts and follow-up question about Vienna Acoustics Mahlers and have so... | |
| speakers for classical music I assume that by "classical music", you are referring to symphonic music. You need a very good full-range speaker (backed by superb electronics) to have any hope of reproducing the sound of a symphony orchestra, while non-piano chamber music can b... | |
| Building dedicated room with long RCA interconnect Running an RCA interconnect of a length of 15-20 ft. should not pose a noise problem, provided it is well-shielded. However, your c-j tube preamp, like virtually any other tube preamp that does not use output transformers on the preamp outs, will ... | |
| Need Recommendation on Best CD player under $1,000 You said $1,000. If that number can be stretched it a bit, you can buy a new Doge 6 for roughly $1,500 delivered. Not be be pretentious, but a number of people with very high-end systems have purchased this player over the last year -- it is curre... | |
| Best tube amp for Wilson Watt/Puppy The CAT tube amps have tremendous synergy with Wilson speakers. In fact, the guys at Innovative in Manhattan said that the CAT monoblocks paired with X-1's yielded the best sound they have ever gotten out of a two-channel system. That said, and wh... | |
| mbl 6011d or arc ref 3 or dartzeel preamp? Neither the darTZeel amp nor darTZeel preamp are balanced -- the designer is strongly opposed to differential balanced circuits. Both the Version A and Version B darTZeel amps have XLR input connections, with the Version B XLR inputs using input t... | |
| How particluar are Dynaudio C-4's to room placement? The C4's have prodigious bass. Being rear ported, you're taking quite a risk if you can only get them two feet off the wall. | |
| American made Subwoofer The Aerial SW-12 - a very honest product made in Massachusetts. | |
| What is the BEST phono stage The Steelhead is very, very good -- it is debatable whether it makes sense to spend more money, even for use in the most resolving system. That said, I do want to chime in about the Soundsmith cartridge/preamp combination mentioned above -- this r... | |
| Has anyone heard the Soundsmith cartridges? I heard the Strain Gauge and the Voice at Soundsmith's shop. The Strain Gauge is the best cartridge I have heard -- it does everything, but it's the dynamics that are most striking. The Voice is a hell of a good cartridge, too. I note that I was n... | |
| Cassette decks....reliability and build quality... Doesn't sound like you are looking for the ultimate in fidelity, but if you are, try to find a Nak 1000 ZXL or 700 ZXL. Each listed for over $3,000 twenty-five years ago. They represent the pinnacle of cassette deck design. Good shops such as Anal... | |
| Rowland Model 6 + b&W 804s a good match? My post came across as ill-mannered and I apologize. What I meant to say is that the Model 6, which retailed for over $16k when it was introduced ten years ago, occupies a different market segment than a speaker that retailed for $3,500 -- that is... | |
| What is under $5k speaker with best bass slam? Matti:The Salons use 4th order crossovers, which ultimately allow them to go louder than the 1st-order slope Mahlers, assuming you have massive amplification to drive them (Salons are only 86 db. efficient, while Mahlers are +/- 90 db. efficient).... | |
| Rowland Model 6 + b&W 804s a good match? Using Model 6's with B&W 804's would be a mismatch -- Model 6's are among the small handful of finest solid-state amps ever made, while B&W 804's are at best an average hi-fi speaker. Model 6's deserve really high-end speakers. |