samhar
Responses from samhar
| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? Mike what about moving the chair to the right away from the A-frame beam and mounting the support, sandbox and TT on the beam. | |
| Does Wilson Sophia Sound good at low volumes? When I switched preamps to the Conrad Johnson Act 2 the Sophia 1's ability to stay "full and balanced" at low levels became apparent. With my old preamp I had to play at a higher volume for the music to have any life, the CDP, amps and cables rema... | |
| Help with amp upgrade What about a 6C33 based amp in the 35-50 watt range? | |
| Upgrading wall outlets Countingbackwards well put!!! | |
| Tubes - How close to be a 'matched' pair? Matched is best these tubes aren't even close!!! What you want to know is the Gm, best would be NOS 14500/14500 and 14500/14500 and above. My understanding is if the sections aren't matched the tubes will vibrate and become noisy at high volumes. ... | |
| How much are your speakers toed in? How much are they stubbed in then?? | |
| swapping IC's to demo and cardas's site sdvice. After moving wire around my system sounds "more relaxed" or "settled in" after 3-4 days of no movement, the presentation becomes "smoother" more homogeneous. | |
| How much are your speakers toed in? Lines through the center of the tops of my Wilson Sophias meet 6'6"behind my ears. The speakers are 8'apart and my ears are 12' from the tweeters. Aprox. 10 degrees toe in. | |
| kt88 or 6550 test data for Hickok 539c or tv7d/u 6.3 HS-5348-1 1.4 P4 C Min. 6250 | |
| ARC vs LFD LFD !! | |
| ARC vs LFD Venice Audio also carries Harbeth and LDF. | |
| More of a Tube Sound In a Tube CD player I have a GamuT that I find much more "musical' than my Raysonic 168 with Amperex PQ's. I have the CD-3 but was told by a former Gamut dealer that the Cd-1 is even more "musical" than the CD-3. I know nothing about it's reliability etc, there is a ... | |
| Vandersteen VCC5 Center with Maggies I tried a different brand center speaker that a had with the 1.6's and landed up purchasing the Maggie center. The Vandy and Maggie sounds are very different, not a good match IMO. | |
| Suggested entry path into vinyl... I said med output moving coil so a lower db setting could be used in the phono section and the hassles with amplifying extraneous noise in a beginning system wouldn't be a big problem. | |
| Harbeth HL5 vs Magnepan 1.6qr Who wins?? If you want low level listening the Harbeths! |