raquel
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| No Volume Swing -- help The problem is that your preamp has high output and your amp has high sensitivity, the result being that you have little range in volume control. When this occurs, it has nothing to do with the "quality" of the components per se, and is merely bad... | |
| Emmlabs transport/DCC2, AA Capitale MK II or Wadia Hi Thom_y:As for how the EMM gears does when run directly into amps, I do not know, but it is clear that EMM digital is in a class by itself, be it redbook or SACD.It is also nice to see that you are expanding to Tenor, etc. Really fine stuff.Good... | |
| Best Tubes for Audible Illusions 3 Pre-Amp I must second Imin2U's last comment about keeping hi-fi gear powered up. The proprietor of one of the high end's more noteworthy and successful tube gear companies explained to me that the studies done in the 1950's on tube wear all confirmed that... | |
| Sonus Faber w/ Sonic Frontiers Power 1 - Impedance You generally want to find out the lowest impedence, not the nominal impedence, of your speakers, and set the impedence as close to that as possible.With the SF amps, this means flipping the lid to move a wire, but it is easy to do.Good luck. | |
| Break in period for Solid State pre amp You have no idea how the preamp sounds until it has real break-in time on it. Give it at least 200 hours.In fact, most equipment is still breaking in at 500 hours (sometimes even longer -- look at Verity's website for break-in time on their variou... | |
| JMW 10.5 arm / v.d.H. Frog set-up parameters Dear Rwd:Yes, four 360 degree turns.The release screw is near the top of the tower and bored into the part of the tower that you hold for purposes of turning the threaded tower assembly. Incidentally, there may be disparate opinions regarding set-... | |
| Any vets among the Audiophiles here? For those of you who do not know, The Absolute Sound senior reviewer Anthony Cordesman is a former NATO commander and was ABC's chief on-air military analyst during the first gulf war. He is now associated with a think tank and is a respected nati... | |
| Candid opinions regarding Kharma Ceramique 2.2 Dear Thom_y:I am sure you are trying to keep your list of eligible speakers to a reasonable size, but it occured to me that another speaker that certainly fits your profile is the EgglestonWorks Andra II. They are VERY refined and musical, they di... | |
| Candid opinions regarding Kharma Ceramique 2.2 Dear Thom_y:Hello again. Thorman is correct. With the exception of perhaps the top two or three Kharmas (which cost as much as a house), the Kharmas are not the best speaker for someone who listens primarily to rock, as they are more prone to comp... | |
| What cables for Rowland's Concerto Hi Streetdaddy:I have Rowland Model 6 amps, Rowland Coherence II preamp and Rowland Cadence phono.I run Kimber Select all-silver 1030 interconnects and Kimber Select 3038 all-silver speaker cable with my Rowland equipment. Both Stereo Exchange in ... | |
| Vienna Acoustics Mahler, carpet piercing cones? Dear Bokfudo:I own Mahlers.In both Robert Deutch's Stereophile review and Anthony Cordesman's review for Audio of the Mahlers, they mention substitute cones that are large enough for carpeting. The Stereophile review is on the Stereophile website,... | |
| Amp for my Salons Dear F155:I have Salons in my main system.Larry Greenhill of Stereophile reviewed the Salons with 7B-ST's and was very impressed. That combo will certainly give you the oompf the Salons are capable of. At their price point, I would say that you wo... | |
| how 'bout Wilson Sophias with Simaudio P-5/W-5 ?? Dear Thom-y:I am afraid that I do not own Sofias, nor have more than thirty minutes of personal experience with them, nor do I have personal experience with any Sim Audio equipment, so I do not know how helpful, if at all, my comments will be. I a... | |
| Revel Studio Discussion- Everything Studio Here Dear Dp37:Here is a link to a thread I posted about placing my Salons. Hope it helps:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1054732329&openusid&zzRaquel&4&5#Raquel. | |
| Revel Studio Discussion- Everything Studio Here Dear Dp37:As for 8tc, it's supposedly great for the money, but I understand that Kimber's Monacle XL, used, can be had for a very reasonable price. It uses the same basic design as Kimber's Select cables. I have a friend who uses it between a Brys... |