swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| The ignorance of SACD & DVD-A marketing idiots.... a famous digital designer does not think highly of sacd and prefers redbook to sacd.and some people prefer Paris Hilton to Angelina Jolie. There's no accounting for taste. | |
| Best steak to eat while listening to your rig? au contraire, Iso. My son says we are "meat-a-tarians". Meat w feet, meat w/o feet, we loves 'em all. Hey, Rrog, that cab is gonna get all vinegary, if you don't give me your address soon. | |
| When to replace pre-amp tube? IIRC, the nuvistor tubes are very long lasting. Yep, here it is, S'phile review of Nuvistor amp says "Typical tube life expectancy is about 100,000 hours, and the failure rate, with almost 1500 Nu-Vista products now in the field, is "about 0.1%." ... | |
| Best steak to eat while listening to your rig? FedEx just delivered a box of porterhouse steaks from Lobel's of New York. These are prime dry aged steaks and the flavor is fantastic.Rrog- Make mine on the red side of medium rare. I'll open a nice aged cabernet and be right over ;-) | |
| Who stay with Merlin longest time Bjesien- If you want to drive down to central CT to hear Merlins, hit me w a PM thru the agon system. Mine are from 04 upgraded to MMes w Master RCs and SBam. | |
| Use for Old Creek Pre-Amp & Amp Steveles- what you have is a two piece unit; a phono stage aka phono pre-amp with an outboard power supply. The output RCAs from a turntable plugs into the RCA jacks on the back of the OBH-8, which takes the very low level signal from the cartridg... | |
| Modern Linestages Just to make my earlier post more clear, I meant that I believe that with active line stages, a well-designed, well-implemented power supply is a VERY important element. I am told (no knowledge in this area) the actual circuit can be very simple. ... | |
| Modern Linestages I am still only slightly foolish when it comes to cables and power cordsAs for me: cables- slightly foolish power cords- more than slightly foolish...just how stiff a power supply does a line stage need?I have zero knowledge about circuit design b... | |
| Dusting tube amp have it performed by your personal french maid. Or in Elizabeth's case, personal pool boy.Or your significant other, dressed in a french maid or pool boy outfit, as is your wont. Or both. but be careful w that vacuum!!! ;~) | |
| what is used to store music from multiple cd's You will need to "rip" = copy the Cds to a hard drive which can be on a computer or NAS storage device and then play them through music player software such as Windows Media Player, Winamp, Media Monkey or JR River. The computer can be directly co... | |
| Modern Linestages I don';t know anything about circuit design, so I can't comment on Rhyno's statement, but regardless of whether or not a line stage has an easy job, IME, the pre-amp is the heart of any system. One of the most important things to get right. I will... | |
| Modern Linestages A lot of very interesting comments above. Manufacturers charge what the market will bear; too much and they go belly-up; not enough and they don't have the resources to survive tough times and develop new products. I esp. liked Uru975's comment:If... | |
| B&W 801D or 802Ds the 80Ds can be very, very good w the right upstream components; not so much if the system has any tendency toward brightness or distortion in the upper frequencies. | |
| New 'Vinyl Flat' flattener? How do you get warped records? I don't know about you, Stringreen, but both my used and new LP retailers provide them @ no extra charge ;~) In fact, it's the flat ones that cost extra, since you have to return the bloody things a half-dozen times ... | |
| Leave the turntable running? OK, guys- get a grip. |