raquel
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| 20A P.C. Recomendations for Rowland Model 6 Monos. When run from the batteries, the A/C line is literally disconnected from the battery /amp. It would therefore make no difference what kind of cord is used when you are in D/C mode (nor would the cord help or hurt the ability of the battery to char... | |
| 20A P.C. Recomendations for Rowland Model 6 Monos. If you are running them with the batteries, upgrading power cords will make no difference.If you do not have the batteries, I defer to other contributors as to power cords that work well with Model 6's. | |
| Bryston B60 For those prices, you could buy a used Bryston 4B-ST amp and used Audio Research LS-3 preamp. The synergy between them is outstanding and they will smoke the otherwise excellent B-60. | |
| Amati homage with NO334 I heard the Amati Homage with a Levinson amp of that vintage (it was a 334, 335 or 336) and Levinson front end at Innovative Audio in Manhattan several years ago. It was astonishingly mediocre. | |
| Any GREAT "sleeper" amps? "Super steal deal" is a relative thing. What is your budget? | |
| SME Model 10 How much should I spend on speakers? I think that as long as you have the patience to dial in your monitors and the sub, your speakers are not holding you back. The other speakers you mentioned would merely be a different flavor, and it is only for you to determine whether you would ... | |
| Arctic Monkeys Spiritualized: I live in NYC and my corner record shop is saying the CD won't be released in the U.S. until the third week of February. Did you buy it in the U.S. and if so, where? (Not that I can't wait). | |
| Manhattan vinyl shops Footlight Records and the Jazz Record Center are two serious vinyl shops. | |
| Spectral and B&W 802D...Need Amp Advice Innovative Audio in Manhattan was running the Spectral stereo amp and Spectral preamp with 802D's when I was last in there in early August (and Linn universal player through all MIT cabling). B&W is not on my radar screen and I almost always p... | |
| preamp matching to poweramp You also would not want to pair an amp with a particularly sensitive input stage with a preamp that is very high gain -- you will have very little range on the volume control (9 O'Clock can be full-blast with bad mismatches). This happens, so beware. | |
| levinson vs proceed I know a non-U.S. distributor for Harmon. He says that the build quality and reliability of the Proceed line is much worse than Levinson (but adds that subsequent to Madrigal closing their Connecticut facility a few years ago, he received three Le... | |
| OK,getting close-- VAC 30/30 SIG. is a good..... I know a dealer who hooked a 30/30 up to a pair of the very hard to drive N801's just for laughs, and it drove the speakers, nothing blowing up, but I respectfully disagree that the 30/30 would be right for any iteration of the 802, which requires... | |
| OK,getting close-- VAC 30/30 SIG. is a good..... The 30/30 Signature is a supurb amp that will drive a lot of speakers, but it is not right for 802's of any vintage. It should be run with a 90 db. or higher efficient speaker, and a speaker of very high quality (Verity, etc.).The added nice thing... | |
| How do they do it???????????? UPS recently lost a flightcase insured for $7,000 that I shipped two-day air from Florida to NYC for eleven days. A lot of time on the phone revealed that they had failed to segregate the package in Florida as a high-value shipment, and also manag... | |
| Quietest amp you ever owned ? The degree to which an amp will be perceived as quiet or noisy depends to a certain extent upon how efficient (or inefficient) the speakers it is used with are, e.g, a 92 db/watt efficient speaker will make upstream components sound noisier than a... |