raquel
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| Sonus Faber vrs Magnepan I know little about the Maggies and nothing about how Blue Circle might work with SF's, but can say that the Signum is a special speaker with unusually good sound at its price point. It was designed for maximum transient response, and uses an unco... | |
| Speaker question regarding Kharma/Sonus faber . Rgs92: What equipment was Innovative using in conjunction with the Stradavari? Their set-up of the Amati used all-Levinson equipment and no analog, and the sound could not have been more mediocre. Innovative is more of a home theater and multi-roo... | |
| Best Integrated All-tube Amp? Single-ended amps tend to have wild output impedences that interact greatly with most speakers, the result being that the frequency response of the speaker can have a number of huge dips and crests, i.e., the sound is not accurate nor faithful to ... | |
| DAL SCIV - tweeters gone need help They're very easy to replace. You just have to fight with the felt a bit. | |
| My new Accuphase 408 is lacking ...... Your dealer's statement that ten hours of burn-in are enough is absurd. The component will still be opening up at 500 hours. Give it 200 hours and then start to draw conclusions. | |
| Burmester CD 03 sampler Try Lyric HiFi in NYC. I believe they were the distributor for the Burmester CD's. | |
| Best Integrated All-tube Amp? I am not aware of an integrated amp that meets your requirements (single-ended, triode, 300B-based, class-A, no negative feedback, low distorsion, point-to-point wiring, good bass, and a well-known brand), especially one that is "affordable", what... | |
| Is there any way to get into tubes for super cheap Cheap tube preamps and CD players with tube output stages tend to be fine. Cheap tube power amps, however, often have reliability problems, and because they use poor output transformers, cannot adequately power low impedence speakers (which is mos... | |
| correct way to turn off tube preamp Not to stir the pot, but many people believe that tube gear using small signal tubes such as tube preamps and tube DAC's are best left on 24/7, this practice in fact lengthening tube life (and providing better sound). Quoting from the "TIPS & ... | |
| Hum thru an HP100 Hovland That volume control is very delicate and you need to pose these questions to the people who made the component -- call Hovland and ask them what to do (I believe Alex Crespi is still with Hovland -- ask for him).The HP-100 preamp has unshielded ou... | |
| VPI Aries 2 platter is creating hum The original platter is a mixture of stainless, acrylic, cork and lead. I trust that the new acrylic platter and bearing are better sonically, but think that the white-ish acrylic destroys the look of the table (the new platter looks like the afte... | |
| Phono Pre-amp for Analog Newbie Reponses below, in CAPS:You wrote:1) Cartridge (type and make)I SECOND THE CHOICE OF A GRADO SONATA MOVING-MAGNET CARTRIDGE, WHICH LISTS FOR $500. WELL-BUILT, DOES A LOT OF THINGS RIGHT, AND IS APPROPRIATE, PRICE AND PERFORMANCE-WISE, FOR YOUR TUR... | |
| Revel Salon and Plinius SA102 If your room is not huge and you do not listen to a lot of demanding orchestral music, you should be okay (I believe the Plinius is Class A biased and has pretty stiff power supplies). That said, the Salon is only 87 db. efficient and drops near 3... | |
| This Week's "New Yorker" Aceto:What is the date of that New Yorker? My subscription just lapsed and I won't get that issue.Thanks. | |
| McIntosh MA2275 v VAC Avatar Super I have not heard the Super Avatar, but own the VAC Renaissance 140/140's and can say that VAC has a reputation for very high build quality, which should be a priority for you if there is no local distributor. |