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| Cables that cost more than the speakers? I don't think you can use any formulas because the retail cost of cable has little to do with what it costs to make and almost nothing to do with how "good" it is or how it sounds. They charge simply what the market will bear or what they can get ... | |
| Bose Infomercial I am sure Herbie got a nice ckeck. It always has struck me, even when I was a teen-ager and that was about thirty years ago, that it was thought to be a good idea to market "high fidelity" sound over television. Certainly any demos that Herbie did... | |
| CAT Ultimate Pre Amp Calvin, I have had no problems with tube reliability in my CAT, which I have had for over 2 years. Were those the stock Sovteks which kept burning out. If not, which brand of tubes were they?I use Telefunken E88CC's (6922) in V6 and V7 of the line... | |
| Website leaking oil? Shhhh.....Don't give Audiogon any ideas! We don't need such "improvements" and "enhancements" here, thank you. | |
| Speaker Upgrade, Vandy 3a, Thiel 3.6 ect I am a Vandersteen 3A Signature owner who mates them with a Pass Aleph 4 amplifier and a Convergent Audio Technology SL-1 Ultimate preamp, so I have top equipment. That said, in the months I have owned these speakers, I have had a great deal of tr... | |
| CAT Ultimate Pre Amp Although some will tell you otherwise, I think it is the best overall performing preamp which I have heard. It certainly competes with the very best. That doesn't mean that it has synergy with every possible amp and speaker that you can mate it wi... | |
| Trelja in New York Sorry. That should have been Pass X-600's, not X-650's. | |
| Trelja in New York I would agree with Trelja that there were really very few rooms with great sound. I was there on Friday. There was a lot of bright sounding equipment. Even the Cary-Vandersteen setup, while it was still one of the better rooms, was too bright. I h... | |
| Where can I buy Tara labs hook up wire? There is an ad currently offering Tara Master Generation I on Audiogon. I have owned Tara Master Generation II and have heard Master Generation I. I thought the Master Generation I was a much smoother, less bright sounding interconnect than Master... | |
| Has anyone heard the new LAMM L2 preamp? I have heard the Aesthetix Callisto and I was not impressed. It actually has some harshness in the upper mids which is slight but still evident. Also, I found it to be surprisingly undynamic. I have not heard the Lamm L2, but did hear the L1. I co... | |
| CAT Ultimate/Tube rolling I have tried Telefunken 6DJ8, Telefunken 6922, Telefunken cca, Telefunken 7308, Sovtek 6922, Amperex 6922, Siemens 6922, Telefunken 12AX7, EI 12AX7 and Tungsram 12AX7. I would rate the Telefunken cca's highest of all the 6DJ8 tubes, but for those ... | |
| CAT Ultimate VS Conrad Johnson Art/CJ 16 C'mon you guys! You can understand if you try! He likes the CAT, but he thinks you need to set it up properly and/or mate it well with other equipment. If you do that it will really sing. The Conrad Johnson preamps in general: he doesn't exactly u... | |
| Vandy 5s vs Wilson W/P 6s I have heard both speakers and after lengthy listening at different dealers, here is my opinion: IMO, Watt Puppy 6's have boomy and congested mid-bass and not much extension below. Otherwise, I don't find that they do much terribly wrong, but I th... | |
| Speaker punishing bass Track # 2 from Sarah Mc Laughlan's "Surfacing". It is strictly very deep bass. If this CD doesn't rattle your floors and windows, your system is not producing bass below 40hz. | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings dick Hyman, "Recital"Dick Hyman, "Plays Duke Ellington"Dick Hyman, "Plays Fats Waller" All on Reference RecordingsBest solo jazz piano that I have ever heard, both for virtuosity and the sound is superb.www.referencerecordings.com |