stanwal
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| Ideas on Technics SP-15 plinth Use as heavy and dense a material as possible. I would look at vinyl engine site and DIY audio sites for leads. I sold them years ago and they were very good, the bases were always their weakest point. I am a Star Sound dealer and have found that ... | |
| NOS vs New Production Tube Sanity Check SAVE YOUR SANITY. GO SOLID STATE! The above is the reason I only use SS or Hybrid where the tube choice isn't so critical. | |
| Re: What are the Best Speakers a $1000 could get? He is right about buying used ; hard to give specific recommendations as choices are always changing, I would spend the money on a pair of speakers and add the sub later. Older large speakers might make the sub unnecessary. Some info about room si... | |
| Musical Fidelity V-DAC vs. Spitfire/Supplier Duo It should be MUCH better, they have tested a $10000 Dac which only scored 48 on their scale and several $2000 players which were in the 20s so this is a very good score, price does not ALWAYS equal performance. | |
| Musical Fidelity V-DAC vs. Spitfire/Supplier Duo Yes. They say " even using a cheap CD player as an optical source over S/PDIF, jidder is still comparable to the best CD players we have ever tested. These are remarkably good results.----to say that I was surprised by the V-DACs performance is an... | |
| Goodmans Speakers I have found an 1968/9 British HIFI Yearbook but they were made after that time. An Audiom 81 is listed then but it was a 15" woofer. Also a Midax 650 is listed. So I would guess that they were made sometime in the 70s. I have had Yearbooks from o... | |
| Musical Fidelity V-DAC vs. Spitfire/Supplier Duo According to a test in the current HIFICRITIC the V-DAC outperformed several others including the Cambridge Audio and the Benchmark DAC1 Pre (42 to 24 in their scoring system. I have found specs almost totally useless as the better companies are a... | |
| Goodmans Speakers Rudy B. is undoubtly turning over in his grave [ I assume he has passed on] to be called British. British watts are the same as American ones, they just tended not to lie as much as some over here. I have some old books if I can find them and will... | |
| Question - speaker placement - B & W 805 I have a pair and haven't had this problem, I used them as my main speaker when I had an apartment in DC a few years ago and my wife currently uses them sitting on top of a chest of drawers in her craft room, not ideal but still sounds good. I had... | |
| Recall of Krell Amplifiers Disney gets a good deal of the credit for the movie, he loaned his special effects genus whose name was Ub Iwerks or something like that, to the production. They were beaten out for the special effects Oscar by the 10 Commandments, which won every... | |
| Recall of Krell Amplifiers I think it was Altair IV. Forbidden Planet was based on Shakespeare's last play. The Theramin was supposedly played by putting your hands into the path some part of it and moving them to create different effects, or that was the story I read years... | |
| Amp models in 1996... Or subscribe to the one on here, it lists year of introduction and original price. | |
| How to Bi-amp Pre-amp with only 1 set of XLR out I use Meridian 605s and 200 series transports. I have used Y connectors in the past to biamp with RCA plugs and I can see no reason why you can't do the same with XLR. The quality of the Ys will be the main factor, I had good ones made and didn't ... | |
| Help Turntable too far from preamp If you just want a temporary solution get a pair of double female plugs at Radio Shack and use a pair of ordinary ICs to extend the phono lines. You will get a little degradation but it will be much cheaper than getting a longer tonearm cable whic... | |
| Integrated w/phono: Musical Fidelity or NAD or MH? I think the MF is better built and will probably sound better. It does well with low impedance loads. |