stanwal
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| Tube failure -- what would happen in worst case? There was a spectacular demonstration at a European HIFI show last summer, the whole room burned causing several 100K$ damage. This is a sign of BAD AMP DESIGN. I am old enough to remember when everything ran on tubes; a friend who is retired from... | |
| what was your wedding song? Re the previous post: never let your wife have your password. | |
| what was your wedding song? "I Promise To Obey Your Every Wish Forever" | |
| What's the best HDMI cable that you have tried ? All I can say is that my wife knows nothing and cares less about audio and video and she had no trouble seeing the difference between first the stock cable and the Monoprice and then between it and the two more expensive ones. Of course we have Di... | |
| members with no feedback? I have had some very interesting experiences with some low feedback members which have led me to to be very cautious. While it is true that everyone starts sometime do you REALLY want to be the one who has to explain that "BUYING" something involv... | |
| what was your wedding song? "Prince of Denmark's March" by Jeremiah Clark. | |
| What's the best HDMI cable that you have tried ? I use the Wire World too. Use VDH on the bedroom set as I am a dealer, it is good also. Monoprice is quite good for a very low price. | |
| All Maplenoll owners I have not had one but a friend , Foster Blair, has one. He finally gave up on it and he is as technically competent as anyone I know. He does the tube restorations for Mapleshade and has been known to wire kits just for the fun of it , not to lis... | |
| Please recommend used tonearm under $1K Dear Raul, when HIFICHOICE reviewed detachable headshell tone arms in the 80s the FR was the best performing one, I don't recall if the Lustre was included in the group but several respected arms were. You are apparently intent on confusing your p... | |
| All Maplenoll owners This confirms my suspicion that the Maplenoll turntable was not designed to reproduce music but is instead an entrance exam for the Secret Society of Mad Scientists. I suspect they will be contacting you shortly. | |
| Musical Fidelity fine-tuning service The problem I have had shipping things back for repair is that some companies want you to declare the units at a very low value so it is impossible to get insurance for the value of the unit. I had my M3 repaired locally , you might be able to fin... | |
| Speaker cable recommendation for Harbeth I use Spendors, which are very similar. I use Cardas Golden Reference; PS Audio makes a very good one at a much lower cost, can't remember the exact title but it is the one reviewed in 10 AUDIO. | |
| Dynaco ST-70 I used a PAS 3 but that was a long time ago. I had one for a short while about 15 years ago and used both SS and a tube hybrid preamps so any should work. Agree that you might want more power, what about the mono MK 3s? Sixty watts per channel. | |
| Please recommend used tonearm under $1K If you actually read what I originally said I agreed that the 801 was a good arm. If you read contemporary reviews no one thought at the time that it was "the best" arm. The EPA 500, which I had at the same time was a better arm, as were others I ... | |
| SME V or Graham 2.2 on Michell Gyro SE Since the mass of both arms is in the medium range very low compliance cartridges are not ideal for either. I never meant to imply that they are identical in sound, only that they are of comparable quality. Which is best with a particular cartridg... |