russ69
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| Marantz 8b - 4 Ohm vrs. 8 ohm tap - power loss? Tube amps are the same power regardless of what output you use. | |
| DISCUSSION: "It only comes out at night". Does anyone else have this experience!? Night time is the right time. | |
| Do speaker wires have to be the same length for each speaker? Speed of electricity is 186,000 miles a second. A couple of feet doesn't mean much. But. I keep mine the same length because that is the way I am.... | |
| How to tame a bright system? I'd try some Kimber PBJs and some lower line AudioQuest Type 4. If that doesn't get you there, it's speakers or preamp time but I'd give the softer cables a try first. | |
| Which interconnect cable to upgrade first Xcool, you have a good cable now but for a warmer sound I would use a Kimber PBJ. Put it between your amp and preamp. That should warm it up nicely. After that put another one on your CD player. | |
| Tonearm effective mass P.S. It's not really rocket science because you basically have high compliance or low compliance cartridges. A quick call to the tonearm manufacturer will help with cartridge selection as will seeing what cartridges the factory can supply with the... | |
| Tonearm effective mass Moment of inertia Is seldom used to determine cartridge compliance mostly due the complexity of this calculation. The manufacturer might have done this during design but not very practical for field cartridges installation. | |
| Higher powered but efficient amp with the imaging of a Pass XA-25? @russ69 Your suggestions? Time to shop for new loudspeakers. | |
| Higher powered but efficient amp with the imaging of a Pass XA-25? I am happy to help, but recognize an amp purchase is not going to get you where you want to go. You need a strategy… and honestly your current strategy is going in multiple directions. Pretty much this, you are looking at the wrong component. | |
| Tannoy anyone? Cheviot Legacy vs. Stirling GR Kevin never steered me wrong. His advice is spot on. I'm curious what Kev said, I'm thinking about some Tannoys myself. | |
| A decent integrated amp under 2K ... I have fun highly efficient speakers with big amps and most will respond well to the power. Sometimes the big amps have too much gain and you can get hissing with high efficiency loudspeakers. | |
| Vintage Technics SL-1300 poltergeist--help! I don't like automatic tables. If it was me I'd remove the automatic parts and just run it as a manual. | |
| Tannoy anyone? Cheviot Legacy vs. Stirling GR Upscale Audio might be able to help with your selection. | |
| Any Brands You “Hate” because of a bad dealer experience many years ago? @russ69 the MkIII was some scary stuff, bad brakes and suspension aside from a weak fuel delivery. Flat side carbs as I recall. It's a Mach III 500 H1. Mine had a good front disc brake. Regular round slide Mikuni carbs. I got into a tank slappe... | |
| Any Brands You “Hate” because of a bad dealer experience many years ago? I didn’t buy any Kawasaki motorcycles for almost 30 years because I had a bad experience with my Mach III. Finally I thought to myself, that was long enough and now I’ve owned about 9 of them. Whoever designed my Mach III was long gone by 2001 so ... |