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| Quicksilver V4 or Sonic Frontier Power 2 I had heard the V4 driving a pair of Vandy 5. The bass was a little loose but the mid-range was jaw dropping.I don't know if it can drive your 87db speaker. There are too many variables to consider other than just sensitivity such as the impedance... | |
| Drums reproduction I think it has more to do with marketing and sales.In order to reproduce drums close to live level, you need top notch equipment and a well-treated good size room. I dont know how many of us have the amp and speakers that can reproduce that kind ... | |
| Passive Bi-amping using XLR Y-adapters Use Y-adaptors on the amp side (female to 2 males), not on the preamp side, to avoid a second set of interconnect. | |
| Drums drums drums Im looking for more cds I bet you will love this one. Master of Chinese Percussion track 1, The Poem of Drums. It is a 10 minus not-stop action of drums in different sizes. Just make sure you start the volume low. I will not be responsible for any structural damage of yo... | |
| Grado Statement Series A question for Doug and Twl. If you use a MU stepup set at 20db gain (10x turn ratio) into a 47K loaded phono amp, according to info on Bent Audio web site, the effective load at the cart will be only 235 Ohm? Will that cause any mismatch with Gra... | |
| Questions for BAT VK-75SE owners Jfresh,Thanks for the update. I think you just answered a question I was about to ask. I need to replace the old tubes, I think I will just get the Sovtek or maybe the Electro-Harmonix which seems to be better built. Any experience with those? | |
| beware ipod I have been using a 40g one since Christmas. It has been faultless so far (knocking on woods). You might have gotten a lemon. I would suggest you send it back to Apple for repair. I heard their services are great. | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range I respectfully disagree with Robert Schults statement. His statement assumed that the goodness of a component is measurable and it is absolute, but in reality neither is true.Lets consider this: what does it mean by a good speaker cable? Is it ... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range You should consider speaker, speaker cable, and power amp together as one unit. Some speaker and amp combinations are more sensitive to cable changes than the others. I have experienced some very cheap cables out-performed some very expensive ones... | |
| Please advise - power for TUBE amp? I don't know about your specific amp but my BAT VK-75SE takes a couple of hours to properly warm up. So I usually leave the amp on if I will be listening to it shortly. Otherwise, I turn it off (overnight, go to work, out of town, etc...). | |
| CD Mats I second Herbies CD mat. It makes noticeable improvement to red book playback but it doesn't seem to do anything to SACD or DVD. | |
| Quicksilver M-80 vs. Atma-Sphere M-50? The Atma-Sphere, like any OTL amp, is picker on speaker matching. If you dont have high impedance speakers or if you cannot audition the amp with your speakers to make sure they will work, I would choose the Quicksliver. | |
| How Can I figure out my Effective Tone Arm Mass?? You can use the method Dougdeacon described and look up the chart at the bottom of the FAQ posted on the VDH web site. This FAQ also contains over 200 Q&A covering almost everything related to vinyl playback, some of them are quite insightful.... | |
| Possible move to tubes… help direct me I think a used BAT VK-60 (or VK-60SE if you can find one) will meet most of your requirements:1. It costs about $1700-$2000 on Audiogon, depending on age.2. It has 60 watts per channel but it actually sounds much more powerful than 60 watts.3. It ... | |
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