raquel
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| How Long to Burn-In Western Electric 300Bs? My guess is that WeCo's explanations as to break-in for the tube are true. The break-in process is not exactly a crowd pleaser, and perhaps for this reason, my experience is that manufacturers tend to understate break-in time if anything. | |
| audiophiles get mention in today's WSJournal I caught the article on the train tonight and found it both funny and a lot better than most non-audiophile pieces about audiophiles -- the mere fact he mentioned that listening over time can draw out differences in gear was impressive. Of course ... | |
| Flat screens? Folks: One last question: what are the typical discounts that dealers offer on good plasmas, for example, assume a 42" plasma that lists for $3,000? Assume further that I would go to a good home theater / two-channel dealer (I would not buy from a... | |
| Flat screens? We thank all of you for your very thoughtful comments -- this is really helpful -- fantastic!Drake and Raquel | |
| Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible. Tubes are generally more prone to microphonics when they are exposed. For this reason alone, they should be inside the chassis. | |
| True dual mono 2 ch amps? VAC 70/70. Dual mono all the way down to separate power cords and on/off switches. | |
| New versions of Vienna Mahlers, Strauss? Gentlemen:I USED to own Mahlers and Rowland amps (and now own different speakers, but still use Rowland preamplification).Shane is right that the Mahlers will generally only work with big solid-state and that all of those big woofers require some ... | |
| Tube amps Not to belabor the issue, but Kevin Hayes is VAC and Dennis Had is Cary. The feedback control was included on the VAC Renaissance amps more for marketing than anything else -- even 1 db. of feedback takes away the magic on dynamic-driver speakers ... | |
| Tube amps A few comments in response to the above posts ... I owned a VAC Renaissance 70/70 Mk. III stereo amp and have owned continuously in my main system for the past six years VAC Renaissance 140/140 Mk. III monoblocks. Even the stereo 70/70 is a very p... | |
| Tube amps While the WP's are nominally efficient and marketed as being tube amp-friendly, they require an amp that can produce a lot of current to control the woofers (the impedence on WP's drops very low in the bass), which rules out the vast majority of t... | |
| Revel Salons vs. Wilson Sophias I ran Salons for three years in a reference two-channel system (amps were either VAC Renaissance 140 Mk. III monos or Rowland Model 6 monos with batteries, and cabling was Kimber Select 3038 and 3033). I have friends (one of whom is Cincy_Bob) who... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Sceana1: Your first three posts to this thread (on 7/17, 7/18 and 7/24) very much give the impression that the Memory Player is completely unrelated to the Sceana speakers, but you now confirm that they share some of the same principals. If AudioO... | |
| How should you treat your tubes? "For longevity it's got to be leaving it on BUT what if the difference was 10 years for on/off or 20 years always on? Do you really think you're going to keep it for 10 or even 20 years?"... I respectfully beg to differ from the right honorable co... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Sceana1: Thank you for the response, but knowing a bit about the hi-fi industry, I'm still betting that the left side of Messrs. Porzilli and Bischoffs' garage is Memory Player and the right side of the garage is Sceana. "Scaena and Nova Physics a... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Scaena1: Were you intending to mention that Scaena Loudspeakers and Nova Physics, maker of the Memory Player, are basically the same people, i.e., Bishoff and Porzilli? I've read your contributions to this thread several times and for whatever rea... |