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| Explain Class A amp to non audiophile friends A couple of non-electronic analogies perhaps:A complete duty cycle of waveform is 360 degrees, remember 10th grade geometey?1) Imagine hand cranking a wheel.With one crank and one (or two) hand(s) cranking all the way around with one crank this is... | |
| What do I need to complement the Thiel CS2.4 Have you had a chance to listen to them? If so, what other components were they used with? Knowing this would be the place to start. | |
| Name your 5 favorite Led Zeppelin tracks. Maybe not audiophile (Classic version is darn close though) but certainly rockophile to the nth degree. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? Mapleshade single and double helix speaker cables. | |
| Best Chinese Preamp for Bryston 7B Sts? Why chinese when there are at least a couple of wonderful conrad johnson tube preamps made in the USA on Audiogon for less than $1200? | |
| New amp? Thiel... If your 2.4s are new, then you will need the better part of a year to properly break them in. I speak from first hand experience with these fine speakers and it took me that long playing them for a couple hours a day. They simply need break in tim... | |
| 12AX7 preamp tube failure last night It's happened to me too. In combo amps the vibration of the speaker interacting with the tubes is a part of the overall sound but the downside is that it puts the tubes at some risk of shortened life and catastrophic failure. Fortunately these are... | |
| Conrad Johnson 2300A help needed Ed at CJ is an excellent person to work with. Let us know if this helps with the vibration hum. CJ are tops with me. | |
| Meridian 508.24 CD plyer. Is it really that good? Had a 508.24 for over ten years, loved it. Then heard a Cambridge Audio 840 a couple of years ago and decided to make the switch. Newer technology, lower time domain distortion, even though at the time the 508.24 was among the very best in that re... | |
| What are the best interconnects. I have owned several brands over the years in the search for the "best": Harmonic Technologies, Tara, Synergistic, Audioquest and I have settled on Mapleshade ICs and speaker cables as the most revealing, coherent and smoothest. | |
| Name your 5 favorite Led Zeppelin tracks. Thank YouIn The LightTen Years GoneNo QuarterDazed and Confused | |
| Krell FPB 350Mcx's enough for THIEL 7.2's + CS5i's I agree that these amps should provide great sound with the 7.2s. | |
| schticky to clean lp's Wouldn't go near it for cleaning vinyl. | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Here's another proponent and user of an all tubes analog system. | |
| Who listens only to vinyl? Not "only" but certainly about 90% of the time due to recordings I have that are not on CD, or that are nowhere as good on CD. Digital is convenient though and that reason accounts for the remaining 10%. |