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| Looking for Altec 604E Horn Check with Great Plains Audio. They are the go-to folks for repairs and parts for vintage Altecs. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, I completely agree with you about the importance of the shunt components. In my case, I have 2 shunt parts in the crossover itself---a shunt coil on the high frequency driver and a shunt cap on the woofer. Each of these is critical son... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil New Duelund CAST caps installed in my speakers today. These are for the woofer shunt caps in a 2d order crossover. Even stone cold, they trounce the Mundorf Supreme caps that were previously my favorite for that spot. The excellent midrange detail... | |
| Top resistors Interesting Audioman, maybe I need to run in my PathAudio resistors some more. I was not so pleased with their sound compared to Duelund CAST resistors, but I doubt that I had anything close to 100 hours before I removed them. My main complaints a... | |
| Suggestions? Tubed linestage pre-amp?? A used Emotive Audio Sira would be an excellent choice and is in your budget. | |
| Your favourite recording label? PabloStashConcord | |
| Spendor SP 100/R2 and Harbeth 40.1 - impressions? Good to hear that you like the big Spendors so much Classact. Two questions for you---What type of stand are you using? and what type of jumper wire are you using (assuming you aren't biwiring)?I have both Sound Anchors and Skylan stands and they ... | |
| Fred Volz and Emotive Sira Pre Amp Sorry, I don't know how to load pictures to an AudioGon thread. I was hoping you would try to set up a System page again. If you run into troubles with that, perhaps you could just email me a photo through the AudioGon email system. | |
| Fred Volz and Emotive Sira Pre Amp Your Emotive Sira should please you for many years! And it's bound to sound even better as it breaks in. Can you try again to post some pictures? I am curious how the Sira looks with the aluminum top plate. With its forest of tubes, the Sira is on... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil VPN, I am not Tom but I have some suggestions. First, while placement is important, I don't think there are any one-size-fits-all generalizations to be made. In my case, with a Duelund CAST crossover cap, I started out with 3 brass cones under its... | |
| Fred Volz and Emotive Sira Pre Amp Looking forward to your reports. | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Speakers? I apologize for stirring up the hornet's nest of Daedalus fans. They are a vocal group! As I said, there are a number of Daedalus owners whose judgment I respect; I just haven't been able (yet) to hear what it is they like so much. Maybe that's du... | |
| Where can I find a Benz lps cartridge for sale? Like Stringreen, I use my Benz LP (not S version) every day. I had it retipped by Soundsmith once already and will probably do so again within the coming year. The Benz cartridges are so good it's a crying shame that they have abandoned the US mar... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Speakers? For my money, the rooms with the most natural sound were the Deja Vu rooms (both the vintage speaker described by LarryI and the room with Harbeth Monitor 30.1 speakers) and the room with Quad 57's driven by Miyajima electronics. (Not coincidental... | |
| Bypassing A Preamp With Volume Pot In Amp Thanks. I just ordered some more Neotech silver with Teflon insulation and some silk tubing. I have a spot for testing this on my outboard speaker crossover, and I will be able to swap several different wires back and forth for comparison. The sam... |