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| Looking for low-watt tube amp suggestions. I love the MiniWatts. Much quieter in my system than some much pricier tube amps. If your speakers are OK with 3.5W, then give it a go. And cheap to upgrade to some killer tubes such as the Psvanes. | |
| Does anyone make a 1'x1' or a 2'x3' diffusor? Well, hardware stores sell things called "saws"... | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? You could not use you PC/Mac with an Oppo. It can take hard drives or flash drives and then you choose music on screen with the remote. Yes a laptop would work as standalone but you'd want to pair it with an approproate DAC. | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? Mac Minis have received high praise as a music server. Particularly the metal unibody versions introduced in 2010 or so. The current model doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, so you would either need to buy an external one or buy a used model that has on... | |
| Why is the market for used Levinson amps so slow? No experience at all with ML gear, but I will say that having first-hand experience with an ML dealer is much more than hearsay. A dealer is an authority who can compare the line under discussion to his experiences with other products in the ML li... | |
| Sturdy sub - $50 in-ear headphones? Thinksound earbuds are around that price. Very nice look and sound | |
| R.E.M. - "Automatic for the People" My go-to sites for questions like this woulde be Steve Hoffman Forum and Discogs. | |
| VPI Classic vs. Well Tempered Amadeus With an Amadeus, I would deal with warped records by buying a Vinyl Flat. | |
| Cleaning the equipment Folks, they call them "washing machines" for a reason. OxyClean also helps. But just be sure you use the "delicate" setting when you tumble dry. | |
| Preamp help for First Watt F3 Just check the output impedance of all the recs that wilysnet just gave you. Some digital sources can have higher output impedances than what is common for preamps (though that may not be the case for these digital sources with volume control. I d... | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? Nope very little to lose on the MiniWatt. I use one with Psvanes (Grade A from Grant Fidelity) in my bedroom system, which had HornShoppe Horns. ALO Audio also sells these and offers some upgrade tube packages as well. I have also heard that their... | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? A shockingly inexpensive tube amp that is also surprisingly quiet is the MiniWatt N3. Quieter than much more expensive tube amps I have tried. And only 3 tubes to roll, making it cheaper to try out tubes like Psvanes (which I love in mine). Might ... | |
| Preamp help for First Watt F3 As you may have seen elsewhere, the rule of thumb is generally 10x less output impedance for your preamp than the input impedance of your amp. Across the whole audible spectrum. I used the very very low output impedance Musical Fidelity kW preamp ... | |
| Recommend some Blues music to a newbie Juat getting into blues now, but I have had a good start lately on vinyl: Mississippi John Hurt "Last Sessions" Muddy Waters "Live at Newport 1960"John Lee Hooker "The Real Folk Blues"Good stuff. | |
| One sub in two systems: Is this possible? The Storm III has both the high level speaker inputs and low level RCA inputs. So yes, with that sub you could have it wired to both systems, and both inputs have separate volume dials for each input. You will just have to fiddle around to see whi... |