raquel
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| ADDING A SOFT ON/ OFF CIRCUIT TO A UNIT Why in God's name don't you leave it on 24/7? What does the thing draw at idle, 30 watts? That's $5/month to your electricity bill. If you want your system to sound mid-fi, and if you want to increase the chance that your equipment will break, whe... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Kana813: It was me, the author of the thread, who had it shut down because (i) you had polluted it with shilling for another CD player and (ii) attempted to harass me through e-mail. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? As Audio Oracle reports, the Memory Player ("MP") was in a number of rooms. It was in the Laufer Teknik set-up featuring Behold equipment and speakers, which I heard for thirty minutes on Friday night. Thirty minutes is totally inadequate to evalu... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Ctm_cra: I have found your contribution to this thread to be most edifying and I decided to go back through your other threads. After reading them, I am most impressed by the depth of your knowledge of so many different audio products and the numb... | |
| Techs in NYC - I need names Not to defend Analogique, but they are in Manhattan and their prices reflect that reality. They are also very, very good, which likewise is reflected in their prices. | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players I just fell upon this thread -- with all due respect to the test organizers / participants, I want to explain why I believe that the test tells us next to nothing about the digital components under test (Nilthepill, jfz, Guidocorona and Newbee are... | |
| Techs in NYC - I need names Analogique on W. 20th. They are a factory authorized repair facility for a number of high end brands and are trusted by the high-end shops in the city. I have used them to calibrate my cassette deck and was very pleased (I was referred to them by ... | |
| Levinson 33H vs Boulder 1060/2060?? I apologize for not addressing your question, but take the liberty of seconding what AudioOracle wrote, specifically, that there are other solid-state amps which meet or exceed the sound quality of the Levinson 33H and Boulder amps. If the speaker... | |
| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D Leemincy:An amplifier's output impedence "reacts" with a speaker's impedence, and vice-versa. Many tube amps have a generally high output impedence that features large peaks and dips (solid-state amps tend to be more linear in this respect). The i... | |
| Wilson Alexandria X2s in small room I, too, have heard the X-2's at Innovative. They were powered by Levinson 33's and the then-new (Summer 2005) Spectral single-box CD player, of course with MIT cabling. The room is a large, purpose built room, probably 35' x 25' x 9'.The sound to ... | |
| Wilson Alexandria X2s in small room In a lot of places in the U.S., it's hard to build a utility closet for $65k these days -- that sounds extremely optimistic for a dedicated room. I have a close friend who lives in a low-cost part of the country and his dedicated room is coming in... | |
| What cassettes do peaple like these days .... Uraniumcommittee: Perhaps if you would offer a rationale as opposed to a simple conclusion, you would be taken seriously (then again, your approach thus far will make anything to come a tough sell). | |
| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D Not to thoroughly hijack this thread, but simply for the sake of discussion, I note that I heard the original Grand Utopias in the same room at Singer back in 2000 driven by big Krell and supported with Krell's big subwoofer ("Master Reference"). ... | |
| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D Audiooracle very much knows what he is talking about with this speaker -- I heed his word and wonder whether he has anything more to add about the characteristics of Focal's Be tweeters as used in the Utopia Be line. Are they, like Focal's tioxid ... | |
| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D Hi Sirspeedy:I respectfully disagree. I have heard a lot of acoustic-suspension designs, not to mention that I ran Dunlavy's for six years with solid-state amplification (and I owned Advents for many years, not that they were particularly good exa... |