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| What If Wall Shelf Isn't Option For My Turntable? A cheap fix is to get some wheelbarrow inner tubes and place them on your horizontal surface, then put a cement block or slab of wood on the inner tubes. On this you can set your turntable. I learned this trick in graduate school where we needed a... | |
| The Anatomy of the Acapella Violon - shocking find I agree with you, Oshag. The midrange and treble on this speaker are stunning. Detail in these areas is the best I have heard, bar none. Soundstaging, dynamics are state of the art. Unfortunately the bass is just ordinary. Extension is OK, speed a... | |
| All time favorite speaker cables Intuitive Design Chimera Reference carbon nanotube speaker cables. I did a review on them here on Audiogon. Another league up from conventional cables. | |
| The Anatomy of the Acapella Violon - shocking find I have had BAT SS amps, the VK500 and VK600, and the bass was pretty darned good. The only thing I didn't like was the lack of soundstage size, but for bass, they are great. You might be able to pick up a used VK500 cheap. I would think just about... | |
| The Anatomy of the Acapella Violon - shocking find Hi, Ralph, thanks, yes, I would imagine my single woofer version to be an easier load, even for my big SS amp. It will be interesting to hear what Amfibus finds when he tries driving his suboktav version with a SS amp. I must admit the indicated w... | |
| The Anatomy of the Acapella Violon - shocking find I thought I would weigh in here. I have a 3 year-old pair of High Violins with the single woofer and drive them with a very powerful Essence solid-state amp, actually monoblocks. Each one has 230K of filter capacitance and a 2 KVA transformer. I t... | |
| Best jazz or blues female vocalist ever Sarah Vaughan and Helen Humes come to mind. | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts Other than the tubes vs. solid-state argument and the class A vs. class B argument, an amp with a larger power supply will often sound louder and more dynamic due to its ability to drive more current, i.e. dynamic headroom. When I was in school I ... | |
| Great Cartridge for Graham Phantom I am running my Phantom on an SME 20/2 and using an old Audioquest AQ7000nsx that was upgraded to a Fe5 when the original nsx cantiliver broke. I haven't felt the need to try something else because the sonics of this Scan-Tech built cartridge are ... | |
| 300b vs. NOS mullard el34- both amps in push pull Some of your answer will depend on your speaker load and your room. If you could answer that, along with how loud you listen and musical choices, we could make a more informed recommendation. | |
| Mixing amps pre amps? As Dcstep says above, you should be able to mix brands of amps and preamps. The only time it could be a problem is if the preamp has a high output impedance and/or the power amp has a low input impedance. For practical purposes, the ratio of amp i... | |
| Who is your favorite blues guitarist Yep, I agree with Xiekitchen. Anyone who thinks Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Beck, or others were original acts should listen to Albert Collins' early recordings. | |
| Listening for tube degradation It always seems that I find tube failure being preceded by increased noise, such as when a tube in my phono stage started kicking off big thumps through my speakers and subwoofer. It is often difficult to hear when tubes have aged because they slo... | |
| What is the best place to buy tubes? I have bought tubes from Kevin at Upscale Audio, Andy at Vintage Tube Services, Ken at Advantage Tube Services, and Brendan at Tube World with good results. Tube World is one of the higher-priced places, but he has an unmatched inventory, not to m... | |
| High vs. Low Efficiency Speakers Duke above did a great job of explaining the factors of a speaker of lower effiency vs. one with a higher one. One other factor to consider is the nature of the load, i.e. the impedance vs. frequency curve. If you have a relatively high voltage se... |