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| Plinius amp and Conrad-Johnson 16LS I haven't yet heard a Plinius SA-102, Jadem6. So I don't know how the two transformers will affect the bass and treble extension. Has anyone A/B'd those two units for those characteristics? As far as the preamp shootout we did at a dealer, it was ... | |
| Plinius amp and Conrad-Johnson 16LS I had a Plinius SA-100 Mk III which I sold almost two years ago. There are things I loved about the Plinius and others which I felt clearly prevented me from classifying it among the best. I loved the midrange. In my system, I never heard a cleane... | |
| In Memory of Henry Kloss I am going to link you to the obituary on the first page of the Obituary section of today's New York Times. A very touching obituary for a man whose major contributions to this world were technical. Yet, the humanity of the man shows through. I al... | |
| In Memory of Henry Kloss Sad to hear about Henry. He was one of the founders at Acoustic Research and he was the "K" in KLH, and was also the founder of Advent and Cambridge Audio. Along with the Original Advent and small Advent loudspeakers, Advent went on to make severa... | |
| Tuner Recommendation for New York City I live in Manhattan in an environment very similar to yours: 6/10 mile from the Empire State Building on the 21st floor of a 35 story building with four 35-57 story buildings within several blocks of me. In our respective locations, reception diff... | |
| Are more expensive speakers better? There are some great $3000 speakers and plenty of lousy sounding $20,000, $30,000 and $50,000 speakers. There is little to no correlation between quality and price. | |
| The most important piece in a stereo system??? The preamp. If you have made a bad choice in the selection of the preamp, it is very hard to "correct" it with speakers, source or amp. If you have made a great choice in a preamp, you are 85% on the way to nirvana. Also, a lot must be said for sy... | |
| How are Von Schweikert speakers? Thanks Doctorb. I am interested possibly in a VR-5 for a bedroom system. My impression of the earlier Von Schweikert speakers were that while they had an excellent low end, they were kind of overly dark sounding, except for the VR-6, which was ove... | |
| Law of Diminishing Returns; where does it kick in? Just want to second those who said that there is no direct relationship between the quality of sound achieved and the cost to achieve it. In addition, those who think you have to spend 35K (used prices) or 80K (retail prices) to get a system which... | |
| How are Von Schweikert speakers? Doctorb,How much did you pay? | |
| Studio gear vs. Hi-Fi gear Is Hi-Fi a ripoff? Thanks, Frank. I don't know much about that record, but he told me about another sound effects record which he did called "Bob and Ray Throw a Stereo Spectacular", in a comedy skit on the record, he put Bob Elliot of the comedy team "Bob and Ray" ... | |
| Studio gear vs. Hi-Fi gear Is Hi-Fi a ripoff? My father was an engineer for almost 40 years and he engineered many number one pop hits, as well as many of the jazz greats, and even has a Grammy for a classical recording. I can tell you, having been in the studio a fair number of times, that, ... | |
| Christmas music For all you Etta James fans, and you don't really even have to be one,there is "12 Songs of Christmas", with Cedar Walton on piano. Etta does a great job with 12 of the Christmas standards, even adding something to "Jingle Bells", which, let's fac... | |
| equipment sound bad? This is a very interesting topic. In the final analysis, we all seek to make ourselves happy with our purchases by working to achieve the "sound" that we like. Certainly, I have heard certain systems, some very high end, which, by my standards, so... | |
| Question about different tubes Century, Please don't assume that because you are having trouble with one tube preamp, that this means that all tube preamps will have the same problem. This is definitely not true. My experience is that there are really some top SS preamps as wel... |