raquel
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| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D I would add that the Nova has some of the best bass definition I have ever heard -- if you want to hear timpani reproduced in a lifelike manner, it is hard to do better.I otherwise agree with Dave (Audiooracle). I have heard the diamond tweeter in... | |
| What cassettes do peaple like these days .... I'll leave the tape formulations to the recording engineers, but my guess is that they have not changed so much in the last ten or fifteen years and you should try to find TDK or Maxell metal.A well set up cassette deck using metal tape can do a s... | |
| How do you pay? Why? BlindJim: Good information. I will check with my dealers to see what they are doing re: Bax and alternatives. | |
| How do you pay? Why? Fedex and UPS insurance is poor quality and the adjusters generally try to deny claims (and take anywhere from thirty to ninety days or more to act). Anyone who ships a lot on Audiogon should open a commercial account with a professional freight f... | |
| Dunlavy for HT speakers A driver operating out of its passband due to a shallow slope crossover cannot handle the power that it could if it were crossed over more steeply. I am not aware of any debate about this point, which is salient if the issue is suitability for hom... | |
| Dunlavy for HT speakers I owned Dunlavy SC-III's for five years and my best hi-fi friend ran the huge SC-V's for three years, both of which are quite similar to the SC-IV/A's. The SC-IV/A's were (and remain) very competitive at their price point, but they were designed p... | |
| How do you pay? Why? Once a wire transfer has posted to your account, it cannot be reversed or undone by the remitter (the person paying). That is why a wire transfer is the only way a seller who wants to avoid problems (fraud, chargebacks, etc. - see below) should ac... | |
| How do you pay? Why? A couple of comments ...Checks of any variety, whether personal check, cashier's check, certified check or money order, are all susceptible to fraudulent use (fraudulent money orders and cashier's checks are actually the tools of choice for most n... | |
| Seeking hot running amps The ARC Reference 600's produce so much heat that, short of running them in a gymnasium, they're too hot to be practical. They need a dedicated room (and by this, I mean a dedicated amplifier room). | |
| more reliable amp: tube or solid state class A "i'm thinking the tube amp, solely b/c the tube is the hottest part, and its failure is accomodated for in the design (you simply plug in another tube). a hot running SS amp will eventually burn out resistors / transistors, and joe audiophile will... | |
| Opinions on SS amps Singer runs them with Burmeister, but my guess is that the darTZeel would be hard to beat, especially given the efficiency of the Utopia Be line. | |
| How much is the industry accomodation Much of the time, it's not even necessary to pay, as they get equipment as loaners that they keep for many months (and sometimes years). In fact, an occasional problem is reviewers not returning equipment, as they have tremendous power over the in... | |
| Ampli choice : tenor dartzeel etc need your exper Dear Samuel33:Notre ami Mike Lavigne a raison et connait tres, tres bien le sujet. Surtout avec darTZeel a Geneve, le choix est d'autant plus facil. J'ai deux components Audo Research et ils font un bon produit, mais ils ne sont pas du tout au mem... | |
| What tube amp to drive Guarneri's? Actually, that vintage of Rowland sounds very similar to a good tube amp. I ran the Model 6's for a few years, which share the same basic circuit as the Model 8, and on both Revel Salons and Vienna Acoustics Mahlers, they sounded uncannily like my... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier The ARC is pretty neutral and the sound cannot be varied due to its use of 6H30 triodes -- they are only made by Sovtek.The BAT, like the ARC, uses 6H30's, so you are stuck with its sound (which is somewhat "dark").You can tinker with the sound of... |