rlawry
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| Want to Start vinyl There are a number of good turntable in the price range you mentioned. Remember that you will need a turntable, tonearm, and cartridge, as well as a phono stage either in your preamp or as a standalone. The phono stage should be matched for the ty... | |
| Review: Mosaic Chimera Speaker cable I was amazed that the Chimeras were so much better than NBS Black Label cables. I had a pair of 8 ft fire-hose sized BL speaker cables, retail $20K, and 3 pairs of 4 ft BL interconnects, retail $10K each. I also had some other top-of-the-line NBS ... | |
| Rel subwoofers I have a Storm III, the next model up from the Strata III. When I listened at the dealer to both there was a little difference in extension and quickness. I would imagine that in a small room you might not hear as much of a difference as in a larg... | |
| Best 6H30 for CJ Premier 140? Yep, I agree with Dgarretson. I had a Premier 140 with the stock EB 6N30's and bought a pair of DR's. There was a small improvement in bass and dynamics, but I heard far greater changes with various 6922 input tubes and with output tubes such as N... | |
| Review: Mosaic Chimera Speaker cable Thanks for the review. I have pairs of the Intuitive Design Mosaic Chimera carbon nanotube interconnect cables between my turntable and phono stage, between the phono stage and preamp, and preamp to power amp. I also have Chimera speaker cables an... | |
| REL studio III hum/rumble I have monoblocks and a REL Storm III sub and have never had the problem you described. The only thing I do differently is hooking up both the sub and satellite speakers to the same speaker outputs on the amp. I am not sure how your amp speaker ou... | |
| CAT SL-1 vs. FS Presence Deluxe & SET/hi-eff spk I have used several versions of the CAT SL-1 preamp over the years and now have an Ultimate Mark 2. I use it with my Wilson WP7's whose sensitivity is 92 dB/watt and have never heard noise, although the WP7's are not as sensitive as your speakers.... | |
| Ventura & Santa Barbara, CA I live in Ojai and would also be interested. I am not aware of any audio organizations in this area. The closest I know of is the LA and Orange County Audiophile Society. Roger | |
| cartridge output level I have a CAT tubed preamp and the owner also discourages the use of NOS tubes, and it certainly is not sonics as NOS tubes are way superior in that piece. My take is that the builder cannot guarantee a supply of NOS tubes, only current production ... | |
| cartridge output level Did you speak with Hovland about possibly increasing the gain in either the phono or line stages? I was able to have this done on an earlier phono stage I had. Sometimes this cannot be done due to limited phono overload. Another thing is the volum... | |
| cartridge output level Thekong: I have never set my Rhea phono stage at 75 dB gain but I guess I should try it and report how it does. Again, since the Rhea uses tubes for all the gain, the choice of tubes is extremely important. The stock tubes worked fine but didn't s... | |
| cartridge output level I agree with your statement that your CD output of 2 volts will lead to about 10 volts output from your preamp using the linestage. But 3 volts output from your preamp should still be enough. The only thing I can think of is that the taper on your... | |
| cartridge output level Yes, I now understand that you have 77 dB of gain prior to your power amp. That should be enough gain (77 db gain of 0.45 mV is a gain factor of almost 8,000, so your preamp output should be close to 3.2 V) which should be way enough gain for your... | |
| cartridge output level The overall gain of your system is what is really most important. With a 0.45 mV cartridge output, I don't think your 46 dB phono and 14 dB linestage gain are enough. You also need to know the voltage gain of your power amp and the voltage sensiti... | |
| What are your thoughts on hybrid amplifiers? A hybrid amp with a tube front end and solid state output stage is a good idea if you want to get some tube sound somewhere in your system but don't want to mess with the hassle of a tubed output stage. Theoretically, using tubes for voltage gain ... |