swampwalker
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| Tube sound with no tubes Davemitchell is correct for the most part. There are some preamps that have a reputation for being hard on tubes, but most should be good for several thousand hours at least. I would not leave a tube pre on 24/7, but if you had it one 10 hrs/day, ... | |
| Best Sealed/Full-Sized/Balanced Headphones for iPo Just search head-fi.org for "closed back" phones. There are several including SONY and ATH that sell closed phones, and considered very good. | |
| Two subs, yes or no? Bob is correct. 2 is better than one. With 2 mono subs you will be able to minimize room effects, esp. if located asymmetrically in the room. There are also advocates of stereo subs for music, there is only a mono LFE track for HT. If you are goin... | |
| Have you heard the latest Merlin VSM-MXe speakers? TAbl10s- I don't know about availability and have not inquired for 2 reasons. 1. I am pretty happy with my VAC Ren pre, which has a tape loop for the BAM for my Merlins; and 2, I am a friend of a friend ;~). They sure don't come up often used (the... | |
| mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not. Congrats. Enjoy and don't let the naysayers get you down. | |
| Have you heard the latest Merlin VSM-MXe speakers? You have got a fantastic pre-amp (I've heard DougDeacon's) and from what I understand, Nick is very customer oriented. I'm sure he could hook you up with a loop that would work very well, but first I would try listening to it with the BAM btwn amp... | |
| Best Sealed/Full-Sized/Balanced Headphones for iPo Jon- IMO, you are going to be disappointed with any full size cans without a headphone amp, unless its just background music. For details on all things headphone, try head-fi.org. | |
| The most important link in the chain... FWIW, my 2 cents as follows-1. Must have no gross mis-matches- no horn speakers with v. bright, high power ss amp; no low impedence dynamic speaker with low power OTL amp, etc, bad cart/arm compliance match.2. Very high quality electronics with co... | |
| Advice / Counsel re: Upgading System Budget?Room size?Musical taste?Tube, ss or don't care? | |
| Have you heard the latest Merlin VSM-MXe speakers? You are not beginning to hear what these speakers can do w/o the SBAM. | |
| How to fix a Yamaha DSP-A1 lighting problem ????? Have you checked the manual to see if there is an adjustable lighting delay? Some products have a mode where the display goes off after a certain period of time. | |
| Vinyl Virgin seeks additional advice The table should not be that finicky, but you could have inadvertently made the problem worse by lessening the tracking force (VTF). If there is adjustable anti-skate, and you reduced teh VTF, anti-skate would need to be reduced as well. Its also ... | |
| Your First Concert was..... Jefferson Airplane in the Surrealistic Pillow days. I was a high school student; my sister was in college and her friend "knew the band". I've never been the same since ;~). | |
| How do I install female XLR's in Aragon amps? The reason why you don't know where to put the third wire is because you would need truly balanced (differential circuitry) with a +, -, and ground. I disagree with cytocyle on the mod significantly reducing the value because the ports are already... | |
| What is the best place to buy tubes? Have never had a problem with tubes from Jsautter or tubemonger. |