rlawry
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| Unhappy with tubes so which transistor amp? I, like you, had tube amps that continued to fail in one way or another. I even had some OTL tube monoblocks that had the biggest soundstage I had ever heard. But I got tired of going to my music room and panicking when the amp failed. When I went... | |
| Ever hear a power cable make a huge difference? I had tried a number of power cords and I was able to hear differences, but I never heard one make what I would term a "big" difference. Until I heard a new type of power cord that uses bundles of carbon nanotubes from Intuitive Design. The differ... | |
| Watt/Puppies with SET or push-pull??? I tried some Cary Audio 300SE SET amps (15 wpc) on my WP7's. While they had a very good presence on voices and solo instruments like strings or piano, they were dynamically compressed and much weaker in the bass than push-pull tube and solid-state... | |
| Name a couple of HOLY GRAIL LPs One of the best-sounding LP's I have heard is the Weather Report LP, the one with the red letters on a blue background. Fantastic dynamic range, especially in the bass, and a gigantic soundstage. | |
| FM Acoustics Amplifiers If you are talking about high bandwidth amplifier designs, two others are Essence and Spectral. My Essence Emerald II amp has a bandwidth of more than 5 MHz. The thing you have to be careful about in most of these designs is the amplification of R... | |
| Intuitive Summits & R.S. Audio Sasons? I believe Dale Pitcher, the Intuitive Design owner and designer, will have the Summits at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in October, and is planning a trip to tour his facility in Wyoming. This may be a good place to hear the Summits and some of hi... | |
| Jazz trombone anyone? I just listened to the recent MFSL reissue of Coleman Hawkins The Hawk Flies High, which has JJ Johnson as a sideman. Anything with JJ is great if you like jazz trombone. | |
| new Aja 180 gram vinyl pressing just arrived I just tried the new Cisco version of Aja and compared it to a really good-sounding original and a MFSL pressing. And my verdict is in: the Cisco is a piece of junk. Bland, detail-challenged, flat, warm and syrupy, and no deep bass that is on both... | |
| New monoblocs for Maxx II, which ones Essence amps were built from about the mid-90's until several years ago. The owner, Dale Pitcher, sold the company and is now with Intuitive Design. I believe only about 300 amps and preamps were built and they are the best equipment I have ever h... | |
| New monoblocs for Maxx II, which ones I do not have the Maxx II's but have heard them at a local dealer being driven by VTL S-400 tube amps and the sound was terrific. I have Watt Puppy 7's and previously owned a pair of Sophias. Since there is what I would term a Wilson "house sound"... | |
| Best sounding LP nobody else has ever heard of... If you are looking for good pop recordings and good music, try Marty Jones Used Guitars and Any Kind of Lie. Both of these are on A&M Records, which almost always have good sonics, unlike most other pop recordings. | |
| Born to Run: Why the Poor Sound Quality? I am not sure I am buying the claim that Springsteen wanted the album to sound gritty or whatever. My take is that, like most of the pop records of that era, record companies were encountering greatly increasing costs due to the artists' fighting ... | |
| Sub Choice I had a REL Storm III and now have a JL Audio F113, so they are close to the B3 and F112. I use my sub to augment Wilson WP7's, so I only run them up to 30 Hz, mainly to pressurize the room. That being said, the F113 is much more powerful and has ... | |
| HIGH output MC verses High MC??? There recently was a thread on the same subject. Everything else being the same, a low output MC cartridge will resolve more detail because the lower-mass coil is mounted to the cantilever rather than the higher mass magnet. Since there is less ma... | |
| Which Solid State Amplifier is Making you Happy? Guidocorona, their names shall ever be anonymous. What difference does it make? Let us just say they are some of the biggest names in audio. Just use your imagination. |