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| Turn Table upgrade, please advise I also have a Champ II. Latest Champ II has ceramic bearing, but Music Surroundings wants $100 for that ball. I presume you can buy standard ceramic bearing for $2 each and try, should have no ill effect long term. I also improved mine with better... | |
| speaker with high WAF This is the first time I see people recommend Merlin for WAF. Any wifes that I know, including mine, thought Merlin is about as plain and ugly as it gets. No offense, but Merlin is a black box with no style of any kind. Especially if you put Merli... | |
| "Commercial" plasma screens the real deal for HT? Commercial version has higher radiation due to spec requirement, but probably close to consumer version since it's not cost effective to use 2 different types of internal organs for different models.However, consumer version usually has the benefi... | |
| Cary vs Jadis vs Quad tube amps I heard the Jadis 845 once against the Nagra. Even though Nagra puts out twice as much power by using 2x 845 tubes, there was no comparison - Jadis has better everything except sheer volume. The SE magic was abundant to the point I thought Nagra s... | |
| Need help with tube linestage-SF vs ARC vs Others Have owned LS-15 and SF Line 3, currently have Line 3 SE and LS-16, have heard LS-25 II and Ref 1 extensively. My favorite has to be Line 3 SE. Better extension than all of the one I mentioned above, much better transparency, and wider soundstage ... | |
| Give me a tube preamp that looks and sound great another bargain at that price range is Sonic Frontiers Line 3, throw in some NOS later and you have a world class pre. | |
| Rowlands vs. Levinson Amps. One of my audiophile friend has 501 as well as VTL 450 & Classe CA-401 (recently sold). Speakers are Avalon Eidolon, front ends are top notch.No contest, tube rules, by a big margin especially on classical music. Almost like between digital an... | |
| 6922/6DJ8/E88CC on B&K tube tester Anyone else with B&K tube tester? | |
| 6922/6DJ8/E88CC on B&K tube tester Gunbei,I have browsed thru the whole entire booklet to look for any entry on 6922, 6DJ8, E88CC, ECC88, and 7308. I did not see any of them listed anywhere and that's why I decided to ask for help here.Maybe you can do me a big favor and see what o... | |
| SF Cremonas with BAT VK 75SE Depends on your room size and how loud you want to play. I am mating my Amati with VK-75SE with great success, though I don't play super loud and don't mind the compromise in bass weight. I also own Cremona, a little more demanding on power amp th... | |
| WBT Nextgen update listening evaluation 2 Very interesting, might be the best upgrade money can buy.How do I order walker audio spade? I don't see it on their web, do I need to call them?I thought soldering degrades sound especially for high current environment like speaker cables, theref... | |
| Help with a new TV. Run a white screen at max brightness for a while, I don't recall exactly how long, but if memory served right it was 30 minutes. Basically, you "pre" burn the screen a little to avoid burn in later on. Others have concurred to the trick, but I hav... | |
| Help with a new TV. And according to Fujitsu, plasma has less chances of burn in than LCD. Contrary to popular belief, LCD also has burn in issue. If you "tweak" your plasma using Fujitsu's trick, you can minimize burn in on plasma.AVS Forum has tons of info, but bes... | |
| Help with a new TV. I have a 60" Sony GWIV and a 42" NEC ED plasma. I can honestly say HD vs ED is not very obvious unless you are sitting too close to the screen. Especially in a 42" or smaller screen, ED vs. HD is even less obvious.If I can afford a 60" plasma, tha... | |
| XLR-RCA adapter wiring schematic Thanks Aarsoe, Van den Hul website is really helpful and clear. |