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| How To Improve B&W N802 Bass Response? If you really have 20 ft. ceilings and your listening room opens onto other rooms, you have a ton of cubic feet and most likely not enough woofing power to fill it (two 8" woofers per speaker can wash out in such a big area).I would suggest moving... | |
| Jeff Rowland amp owners: What's your pre-amp?? Responses will depend upon which Rowland amp you have. Early Rowland amps used the 600 Ohm balanced input impedence standard and won't work well with some tube preamps. The 6/8ti/9ti, the 10/12, and the 300 series amps are transparent and resolvin... | |
| Lead on Carry That Weight Let me be a little more specific ... the solo comes at the end of Carry That Weight. It is framed by a drum solo (kick drum, mostly) on the front end and then a +/- five second passage of repetitive piano strokes, which leads into "The End". All o... | |
| Full Range Speaker $15-$20000 Range? Congrats on your electronics -- great stuff.The Wilsons and Revels would not work well, as they all drop to 3 Ohms or lower in the bass -- the vast majority of tube amps, even very good ones like the Thors, won't sound right on speakers with these... | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 Schorly: Let me atone for the earlier digression. I have a close friend who used an L2 with JL-1 Limited Editions and all Transparent Ultra cabling on Salons. Sounded spectacular. The L2 is a solid-state preamp with tube power supply. The output i... | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 Jafox: Thanks for setting me straight on CAT tube amps, engineering, business and expository writing.Schorly: My apologies for the diversions from your question. | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 "I highly doubt that Mr. Stevens would bring on a new statement product that is sonically inferior to his previous statement product. And again, it is at a significant price drop."Sure he would if he couldn't make money selling $50k amps. Give... | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 Brian:I would not be surprised if the JL-2 exceeds the performance of the standard JL-1 monos, as it has the upgraded circuit board. However, the $50k Limited Edition JL-1 monos are a different story -- the outrageous parts quality and kryptonite ... | |
| CAT JL-2 Mk2 vs LAMM M1.2 ... on WP 6 or 7 One of my dealers claims that the CAT amps and Wilson Grand Slamm have some of the best synergy he has ever heard in audio. I do not remember which iteration of the Grand Slamm he was referring to, however, as that speaker changed over the years. ... | |
| VAC PHI 2.0 or CTC Blowtorch or... My closest hi-fi friend carefully compared his DCC2 to his Lamm L2 preamp, the latter clearly being one of the best sounding preamps made. The two preamps were so close in his system (an all-out system featuring $50k CAT Limited Edition monoblocks... | |
| Which companies also offer good service?? VAC and Rowland -- excellent.Levinson/Revel -- I needed to get some information about my Salons and was directed to Harmon headquarters in Massachussets. The supposed "Revel guy" I spoke with was an untrained monkey who knew nothing about my Salon... | |
| nice turntable that plays 78s I believe Rega still makes a 78 rpm-only version of the P3. This might be overkill unless you have a lot of 78's. | |
| Is a tube preamp a good idea? Eldartford is correct. It is a myth that leaving small-signal tube gear on 24/7 shortens tube life. I reprint here my response to a thread posing a similar question:"Many people believe that tube gear using small signal tubes such as tube preamps ... | |
| DAL SCIV - tweeters gone need help There shouldn't be any need to rig up anything or solder, as they feature slide-on connections. Madisound is probably the leading source of Dunlavy replacement drivers and my guess is that what they are telling you is correct. Dunlavy used cheap, ... | |
| Sonus Faber vrs Magnepan If you are opening your search, I have a lot of experience with the Dunlavys (Dunlavy is out of business, by the way). The edge in dynamics that Sscot1961 reports for the Dunlavy SC-V is mostly due to the fact that it is the size and shape of a fo... |