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| BEETHOVEN'S LATE STRING QUARTETS Flex: interesting about liking the ABSQ but not the ESQ.Is there a particular reason. The clarity and the muscularpresentation of ESQ are more in tune with what I thought Beethoven would have wanted. I am not saying I like one over the other; in f... | |
| Best amp for Avalon Eidolon speakers? I have a budget(?) Avalon Radian setup that I just puttogether with all Spectral electronics (all from Audiogon).Yes the DMA-360 monos are glorious but they are around$9000 used if you can find them. A nice alternative is theDMA-200, which is a pu... | |
| Mozart,Haydn,Beethoven String Quartets...... Wake me up when you decide to go beyond the precursorsto the greats of the string quartet: Schubert andBartok. Most anything by the premier Emerson String Quartetlights me up. Although I will make a case that Mozart'sString Quintets are interestin... | |
| Most underated albums...... What is underrated? Some obscure band you heard and likedbut nobody else did? Or some band that was popular but thealbum did not get airtime or nobody liked except you???Everything in life might be "rated", but not necessarily rated the way you li... | |
| If i had the money..... From the literature it is Class A up to 25 watts and apparently there is an internal switch to bring it down to 10 watts if you do not want the heat. I think the JC-1sare going to be the standard which all other solid stateamps will aspire for the... | |
| Spectral DMC-30SL ,which CD player???? No it is not the quality of the cds themselves,I think it isthe quality of the DACs and the quality of the analogsection afterwards. DMC-30sl makes the Resolution and theRega sound like a first generation cd player, ie my Mission.I admit now I am ... | |
| Class A, B, C? What do they mean? I think the new Rowland Amp 301 is a class D or H switchingamp. So how does an audio company who makes class D ampsget around these problems. I assume the faster you oversample the better, but how much I am not sure. I assumeyou would have to deci... | |
| Class A, B, C? What do they mean? Sean: Have you ever seen an AF Class C amplifier? I have not. RF amps, in particular, pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation, I have seen many. Ham operators,many. Nada for audio. | |
| Class A, B, C? What do they mean? Sean: In power amplifiers operating at radio frequencies distortion of the rf waveform is relatively unimportant.RF amplifers usually operate with tuned circuits and theselectivity of such circuits filter out the rf harmonics resulting from distor... | |
| Class A, B, C? What do they mean? Class C amps are used mainly in RF amplifers ie fromaround 5Mhz to 1Ghz. After a 1Ghz you start using wave guides for amplification of a small voltage signal. Hamoperators use them. I do not believe it a distortionproblem per se, but a question of... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Already mentioned. Acoustic guitar master; knows what and why for each and every note played. | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green It was 1967. I never saw the Who. The Yardbirds were in the movie Blow Up, the Who turned it down. The Beck/Page duorecorded only four songs ( one being a radio commercial forgreat shakes drink). | |
| Riddle me this... I think we all pursue this hobby or passion in our own way.I at least think we do. I am ridiculed by my friends for spending 1000s of dollars for something that might bring that elusive something to my listening pleasure, being an amplifier,etc. I... | |
| The Ferrari 288 GTO of ARC Tube Amps Two D160s Wow! Who would of thought!!! But be aware of any vintage tube amp: most likely they need to be retubed andmatched. There are 10 6550s total and finding matched sets will not be inexpensive. $1500 in my opinion is high, by theway. I would... | |
| PS: Typical McGowan Sound? -- HCA-2 & Classic 250 Please note the Rowland new amp the 301 is based on somevariation of Class D amplification. What does that tell you??? |