rcprince
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| Jadis JP80 Owners - Please Help I own an earlier (sn 150, early 90s) JP80. In answer to your questions:1. While I have often been tempted to try another pre, and due to a chronic problem with the phono stage of my JP80 I have actually recently bought a Lamm phono stage, there st... | |
| better gear, worse recordings As an example of what you're talking about, the late 60s/early 70s and beyond DG and CBS Masterworks recordings and the old RCA Dynagrooves stand out to me. The two former were heavily multi-miked recordings using very hot treble mixes and poor ba... | |
| Help Best Audio Store in London? It's been years since I was there, but there was a small shop called The Cornflake Shop which really was a nicely run store, very low-key and nice people. I walked there from the Mayfair area, so probably pretty close to there. I think they may st... | |
| Brightness Differences Between Daytime and Evening I think the likely answers are as you suggest, but there can be another variable, depending on whether your observations are for continuous listening during daylight going into night--your equipment reaching its optimum operating temperature. I fi... | |
| Best Dac you ever heard My favorite DAC remains the Audio Logic 2400, which has remained truer to the music than any dCS, Wadia, Levinson, Krell, ARC or other piece I've heard, both in my system and elsewhere. A very open, "alive" sounding DAC with excellent soundstaging... | |
| NOS tubes new production Richardson Electronics has been making some, I believe copies of the MO Valve KT88s and the WE 300Bs, and the Chinese Golden Dragons were supposed to be exact copies of the MO Valve KT88s. Richardson's are or were exorbitantly priced, due to the e... | |
| Best transport to use with Jadis JS 1 tube dac Nah, it's just that Detlof and I are older... | |
| Tonearms: Graham 2.1 or 2.2 vs Basis Vector Until recently, the phono section of my Jadis JP80MC, but it's been giving me rumble problems for years, which were exascerbated when I got a low-output Koetsu, so I finally swallowed my pride (and dug into my pockets) and got a Lamm LP2 to handle... | |
| Opinions on Audio Logic tube Dacs Yes, they still make the 2400. This is Jerry Ozment's company. The 34 (which is quite similar to the Jadis DAC but uses a solid state power supply and better quality caps, among other things) was the model before the 2400, which can decode 24 bit/... | |
| Tonearms: Graham 2.1 or 2.2 vs Basis Vector The Graham is a great arm, and works extremely well with the Basis, I would echo the others' recommendation of that arm. | |
| Wow I listened to my old AR ES1 last night Welcome back to analog! From a quick view of the classifieds, there's a Basis 2001/Rega/Benz Glider for sale for $2500, and Well-Tempered Classics are always available, it seems; as far as new goes, the Michell tables are indeed nice, and for a lo... | |
| Best transport to use with Jadis JS 1 tube dac It has been my experience that often old technology sounds best.... | |
| Best transport to use with Jadis JS 1 tube dac The Jadis DAC is similar to the Audio Logic. That works very well with CEC TL-1, Forsell and Jadis transports; I'd expect the Jadis to do the same. You should be able to get reasonable deals on at least the CEC used, and they all are really nice l... | |
| Federal Telegraph Co vintage 18 inch speaker Albert, you're right, Andy loves old speakers. Has extolled the virtues of them to me for years. You are to be commended for not making that offer! | |
| NBS Omegas vs Monitor 4's ? My Omegas are still breaking in, but I'm coming to recognize that they're far better than I first described. The soundstaging and bass extension and articulation are more natural and realistic than I've ever heard in my system before, and they've ... |