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| Joule Eletra LA 100 MKIII The batteries in the Joule preamplifier are under no load and don't really have an effect on the bias settings used for the line stage. They will last many years. You don't really need two meters to set the bias... I normally do it with one DMM. I... | |
| New Rega DAC I run in our demo Rega DAC for a week or so before doing some comparisons with the Apollo and Saturn.. using either the Saturn or Apollo as a transport. The DAC with Apollo transport is clearly better than the Apollo and also the Saturn (better to... | |
| Joule Electra LA-150 MK3 vs MK2? Dob... sorry for not getting back here sooner. I have been very busy trying to catch up with customer business since returning from the show, not to mention fighting a bad cold (more like bronchitis my Doc says).To keep things short and sweet... m... | |
| Joule Electra LA-150 MK3 vs MK2? As to value per dollar, that comparison is best left to other who can compare it with other $10K+ preamps. The best I cn do right now is discuss it in comparison to the LA-150MK11. I have to keep this short given I need to get the room going here ... | |
| Joule Electra LA-150 MK3 vs MK2? Yes, we are using the Clear speaker cables and some of the Clear interconnects in the show system (we didn't have enough Clear interconnects to wire the whole system). It is as it names implies, very clear and pure sounding cable. Pretty amazing m... | |
| Joule Electra LA-150 MK3 vs MK2? Update: The preamp (LA-300 Marianne Barber Memorial Line Stage Preamp - Its not called the LA-150MK3) is up and playing in our (merlin/Joule/Cardas) show suite.... sounding very very good so far just only after a half hour of play. | |
| Joule Electra LA-150 MK3 vs MK2? Well Clio, it will just be the usual recent crew at CES this year for Merlin (Bobby and me - Rich Brkich)... Billy hasn't been to a show for a number of years (family obligations and since I'm available he can stay home and be at the plant to get ... | |
| Joule Electra LA-150 MK3 vs MK2? Just a update to confirm that Jud is sending out a Memorial Edition preamp for us (Merlin) to use at CES in the Joule/Merlin/Cardas room. Though I am bummed that Jud himself will not be coming to the show, I am looking forward to hearing the pream... | |
| Sharing my excitement........new Rega P3-24 table Thank you for the business and the kind words Adam... I'm really glad you are enjoying the new table so much. FWIW, What I did for Adam's demo was to first play his old table for him and then switch over to his new P3/24 Exact using the same syste... | |
| Connecting a subwoofer to a Joule LA-150 Ultimately, best way to do this is to put the BAM between preamp and main power amp so you can use the extra pair of outputs on the Joule Preamp to run to your sub. Is it a perfect solution? Maybe not? But any small loss in performance (generally ... | |
| Stupidgood: Ars Sonum Give me or Bobby @ Merlin a call. While we will probably not be able to get one for you to listen to at your home (a back order of close to 20 units prevents that), if you make a trip upstate NY we may be able to arrange a listen.BTW, I coined the... | |
| Merlin 1B They could be from anytime in the late 80's to early 90's. Older if they have foam wrap grill... newer if they have cloth wraped grill. They are nice little buggers... not the level of refinement you will find in the current TSM-MXe, but a nice tw... | |
| Audio Aero Prestiges new transport? Interesting info... my demo Prestige (same one I brought to use as the front end for the Merlin/ARS-Sonum/Cardas room at the Stereophile show the other week) which is only a few months old with the new transport has been very, very quiet. If the t... | |
| Anyone tried the new AA Capitole Reference ? As it is quite clear now, my blurb on my website (posted several months ago, based on limited/preliminary info I got from CES about the new Audio Aero products which are just now becomming available) is not correct. As well, the correct retail pri... | |
| Merlin Owner's... I've lived with the Heavensgates (60W single ended tansformer coupled zero neg feedback monoblock amps) for about a year. If you like the fuller and somewhat softer SE sound, the Heavensgates would make you very happy. The VZN-100 OTLs (and this i... |