swampwalker
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| Preamps for Atma-Sphere OTL Amplifiers Can't give you a specific recommendation, but based on my experience, you should limit your search to those with true balanced output. | |
| Speaker Choice for Almarro 318B The Sequerra Met 7s would be a great match. I had a pair of the 7.7 Mk 4 or 5s. The only piece(s) I ever regret selling. And yes, with high level inputs you could add a sub if you wanted to. | |
| Ayre amps - cool running? I think that your experience is in line with diff btwn amps that are Class A (run hot) and A/B, although some A/B amps are biased heavily into class A and will run warm-hot most of the time. | |
| Economic Safe Way to Ship an Amp I would strap it to a pallet if possible. Check freight forwarders. If you can take it to and pick it up from airport, air freight is probably the safest, quickest, and possibly even cheapest. | |
| Is the best power cord no power cord at all? There are several high end battery powered products out there, including the battery option for the ASR Emitter amp and pre-amp, Sutherland phono stage, microzotl amp, Dodd pre-amp, battery option for Merlin S-BAM, and more that I am sure I missed. | |
| am/fm/CD in-dash for car? Don't know if Eclipse (by Fujitsu) is still in the biz, but IMO, they beat Alpine by more than a bit. | |
| Why Can't Tubes Be Mass-Produced Cheaply? Answers as follows:1. Quality- Manufacturing skills have eroded. Market is very small.2. Tube electronics were lifeblood of many military and industrial products. Huge numbers of replacements were stockpiled. Soviet- bloc continued to use tubes lo... | |
| Squeezebox and Music Vault NAS Prpixel- Can you provide some more details about the entire rig you have. Not only hardware but software as well. My goal is to ripped bits from HD to a digital input on my APL 3910 and thence into my system. It be a plus to get the music to an au... | |
| Dali MS-5 Bi-Amp; Tri-wire You can do this, but you will need some kind of attenuator or active cross-over. Does the Sim have an additional pre-amp out to drive the Cary. In many cases, taking a signal from the pre-out of an integrated means you have to remove the jumpers t... | |
| Squeezebox and Music Vault NAS I've been debating this route and my take is the Prpixel is correct. | |
| Phono pre for ZYX 100 Yatra high output Another option if you want to keep the ARC, would be the ZYX pre-pre for more gain. It was excellent and easily bettered the SUT in my VAC Ren Mk2. If you do much reading, you will find that proper transformer and load matching with an SUT is crit... | |
| Cowboy Junkies-Trinity Revisited...In deed Everyone who's waiting for it to be released on LP raise your hand! | |
| Phono pre for ZYX 100 Yatra high output New tubes could certainly make a difference. Do you have a way to test them? Don't know the tube complement in a Ph-3, but there are tube equivalents that will give you more gain for certain families. | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner Good point, Z. Of course one should also consider that the easily adjustable, repeatable VTA & VTF adjustments make it easier to optimize for varying weather, humidity, LP thickness, etc, which allows for the associated equipment to be shown a... | |
| Silliest audiophile equipment of all time? Dgarettson- I have no experience with passives and the technical issues associated with them are beyond my comprehension, but I'd bet that the wood chassis is way more impt than the knobs. AFAIK, those $500 knobs were not directed specifically at ... |