roberjerman
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| I was literally minutes from purchasing the Special 40's... I certainly wouldn't spend thousands for the Falcon's or other versions! Reality check: the Rogers version listed at $450/pair in 1976 - 78! I was tempted then to buy a pair! | |
| I was literally minutes from purchasing the Special 40's... You might get lucky on the used marketplace. I bought my Rogers LS3/5A's (11 ohms) from an eBay seller in Lithuania (!!!) for $960 + shipping. At that price how could I resist! They arrived safely intact! | |
| Driving different pairs of speakers with different speaker wire lengths You can get an Andover Model One Songbird streamer for $129 and a Tidal subscription. No need for the Denon changer! | |
| Listening to full LPs vs virtually endless digital tracks. Due to time constraints I like listening to half of an LP or CD. Never individual tracks! | |
| Best Patricia Barber or Keith Jarrett Album ? I like Jarrett's Arbour Zena on ECM. Also Survivor's Suite (ECM). These both feature Keith in an ensemble setting with talented sidemen! | |
| defective pre-amp I'll put my money on georgehifi's advice! | |
| Is there any merit in former SOTA gear, The best-selling tube amp is still the Dynaco ST70! Still very desirable despite competition from Ch*na! Like vintage US cars it is easily "hot rodded"! I have one with a different input/driver board. It can drive the Quad 57's very well - and saf... | |
| Is there any merit in former SOTA gear, Not to mention my Ohm Walsh Sound Cylinders and DCM Time Windows driven by James Bongiorno's Sumo Andromeda amp! | |
| Is there any merit in former SOTA gear, I have two pairs of Quad 57's and a pair of the Roger West (Sound Lab) designed KLH Nine full-range electrostats. Both these speakers can compete with today's over-priced five-figure offerings! Add my original built-by-Julius Futterman H3 and H3aa... | |
| Music Reference RM-4 Input-Loading and Gain-Select plugs If there are no loading options on the front or back of the RM-4 leave it alone! I'm sure that the late Rodger Modjeski knew what he was doing when he designed/built it! | |
| Music Reference RM-4 Input-Loading and Gain-Select plugs @imhififan : +1! You've got it right! The RM-4 is a linear-gain (no equalization) stage to boost a low-output mc cartridge's voltage (below 1 mv) by adding gain (30db). I have a Marcof PPA-1 (battery-powered) which does the same thing. In the old ... | |
| powered sub to an Adcom speaker selector box Line level output from the preamp only! | |
| Werner Jagusch Crossovers Damaged on Delivery - Can I Repair? Just buy new inductors from PartsExpress. | |
| SAEC WE-308 L or a new tonearm? A Jelco for less than $1k would be a better choice than the other two tonearms you mentioned. | |
| SAEC WE-308 L or a new tonearm? Pass on the SAEC arm. Why? Because its offset angle is too small to achieve accurate alignment. |