samujohn
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| Upgrade advice, please. Do you have any audiophile friends? If so, borrow a high powered amp and see if power is a problem. I discovered some years back that some of the distortion that I thought was on my recordings, was actually my 60 watt KT88 tube monoblocks overload... | |
| How to make record albums The Buddy Holly on MCA is the most "you are there" reissue in my collection, which includes quite a few 180gram efforts and some 45rpm reissues. I suspect that the original tapes were simply recorded live band performances, and the lack of analog ... | |
| To all tube lovers....... Why would you buy a speaker that needs solid state? What amp was driving it at the demo that so impressed you? | |
| Electrostatic versus conventional speakers An audiophile in our area bought a pair of Quad ESL-63's a few years ago from a police auction for $200. It seems the police confiscated them in a drug bust and an officer took them home and hooked them up to his receiver. The resulting horrible s... | |
| What is a good spartan turntable set up? A quick look through the listings presents the following musical sounding (British laid back) system for well under $1000. (Obviously the cartridge would be a stand in until you spotted a deal on Audiogon.) Sota Moonbeam $325Audio-technica AT 92EC... | |
| Infinite Baffle anyone? The Brits put them in unused fireplaces. The back wave goes up the chimney.The rediscovery of ancient audio hobby tricks is on going. The latest stuff is rarely the best ever, only the best they can do with in a given market at the moment. | |
| What amp / int. amp would you still like to try? Over the years I have heard representations most of the successful analog amplifier designs. I would like to hear all the digital amp designs. So far I have heard a Spectron, a Tact and a Bel Canto, and have been very favorably impressed with the ... | |
| Atma Sphere deserves praise Everybody's makes choices based on personal preference. The above referenced Atmas-phere OTL's sounded great, but I liked the ARC VT-100, and a pair the very light, solid state Bel 1001's just as well. I have a pair of 65 pound subs and some 80 po... | |
| Atma Sphere deserves praise I suppose part of my lack of enthusiasm for shipping Atmas-phere products stems from helping a friend pack up his top of the line OTL's. Three people (and considerable beer) were required to set those monsters in their wooden coffins. I resolved o... | |
| Atma Sphere deserves praise My reaction is mixed. A "small part change" to a tube circuit would seem to be something that a lot of us could do ourselves for a lot less expense and trouble than shipping equipment back to the factory. A hundred dollars invested in a decent sol... | |
| Surge protectors without noise rejection The Wiremold L10320 has no surge protector or filtering. Naim says that all filtering is detrimental to the sound. I must say I like the sound (none), the quality, and the price ($33.70) from Allied Electronics. | |
| Cleaning out my closet Nakamichi cassette deck,Sherwood stereo (tube) tuner, Yamaha top of the line (mid seventies) receiver, Kenwood tuner, Sound Dynamics center channel, far, far too many records from the sixties, too many speaker cables,too many used vacuum tubes.Aud... | |
| to volume pot or not to volume pot Simple volume controls can be a significant cause of distortion. It all depends on the circuit and the components. The worst, and most usual type, is a cheap wire-wound pot, inserted on the hot side of the input. Such a control has balance problem... | |
| Dynamics at lower volumes? OK 6550c, Trelja, define your terms. I will venture that reproducing the dynamic range of "real life" in the home is impossible. What we actually do is play recordings that have a very limited dynamic range.The question posed was "Are there are an... | |
| Dolby True HD vs. DTS HD "The PS3 downconverts the lossless bitstream to DVD-standard DD or DTS, which is lossy. By this method the Blu-rays still sound a bit better than standard DVD because the downconvert operates at a higher bit rate than the DVDs did."Thank you Johnn... |