rcprince
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| Preamp for audio research ref110 Don't be too harsh on ARC, the SP 9 is an old "entry level" (for them) unit, built and sold back before ARC went all balanced with their equipment--that didn't start till they brought out the LS 5 (a terrific sounding line stage, by the way). I'd... | |
| Magico Ultimate, how is it? One thing for sure, there can't possibly be a better speaker coming from Magico in the future, nor a Mark II version--after all, it is "the ultimate". | |
| Magico Ultimate, how is it? Perhaps somewhere between the two opinions above? | |
| Can I use a step up transformer? I wouldn't think you need more gain either, not sure what you mean by overloading your line stage. If you'd rather have the gain setting you use for phono on the pre match your other sources by boosting the cartridge output, OK, an SUT should wor... | |
| Looking for Dynaudio Focus 110a Put in a wanted to buy ad, that would help. Don't ask me how to do it, but I know it can be done on this site. | |
| Herron VTPH-2 12ax7 Recommendations? Agree with stevecham, use the stock ones for a while before you start tube rolling. Keith Herron, when he gave us a demo at an NJAS meeting, felt pretty strongly that there should be no need to change the ones he chose. If you do decide to try d... | |
| Speaker Choice ? Paraneer--doing a little detective work by looking at his threads, I think the OP got Vandersteen Quatros.Vicweast, sorry, but as you know, you can't have any pudding till you eat your meat. | |
| tube tuner drifting station I think you'll find that problem with any analog tuner, not just a tubed one. | |
| Tube advice Not sure about the newer ones, but I would stick with ARC's tubes if the newer amps are anything like the older ones. They were very hard to bias correctly and tubes often would fail on first use because of that. Andy Bouwman told me years ago t... | |
| Identifying EF86 Tubes As tls49's link shows, I had a number of Phillips EF86 tubes that had the mesh plate, as in that picture. My Telefunkens did not; I think my GECs did. Not sure why the differences, but they all worked very well. | |
| Need to lay a portion of my high-end speakers cable under the floor ... I had 40 feet of interconnect under the floor of my old house. Since it was a 12 foot deep basement under the floor, I was able to suspend the cables from the basement ceiling with silicone coated rubber bands suspended from hooks in the beams, w... | |
| Relationship of amplifier sound to transformer quality? One of the reasons Jadis electronics sound so good is their hand-wound transformers. | |
| Is this a bad idea? Replacing integrated RCA cables on turntable with RCA female jacks Not being technical, I'll still offer some basic thoughts. Normally, the less connections you have in the chain, the better the sound, so adding another connection and interconnects could in theory adversely affect things. That's why many of us ... | |
| Dunlavy SC-V questions I can't answer most of your questions (though $4000 sounds like a decent price), but I think your room might be just a little too small for the SC-Vs. My room was 20 by 19 with a 10 foot ceiling, and Duntech Princesses (the equivalent of your SC ... | |
| Audio research m300 I still say try an active preamp if you need more volume. Your Krell puts out plenty of juice that should be able to drive your speaker to high volume levels, but your use of the Wadia volume control does limit the gain you can put into the Krell... |