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| Suggest a sub amp to power NHT 2.9 bass? Downtown- You are actually talking about bi-amping. Unless the 2.9s have an active x-over, you will either need identical amps, or one with a gain control, or an active x-over. One choice would be to use a pair of DNA 0.5s, vertically bi-amped (on... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Thanks, guys. I can relate to the humor. I used to work in a plumbing warehouse back in the 60s and got quite creative with brass pipe fittings. I also remember travelling home from Woodstock (yes the 1969 Woodstock) and getting stopped and search... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Patrick- I've been thinking about you a lot. My wife has just finished her 4th surgery in the last 2 months and is about to start what they call dose-dense chemo in a couple of weeks. People like you and she are the definition in my book of class ... | |
| Selling McCormack Upgraded Gear LOL, Jmc... actually Eagle is quite a gentleman. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Actually, I am also interested in anyone who has heard both First Sound and Supratek units in a reasonably direct comparison. | |
| Romance just keeps geting worse Can't help you on your repair problems, but if you are using a pre-amp w/o a phono stage, then you will need a separate phono stage. If your pre-amp has a phono stage, then it may not have enough gain for a low output mc cart. If you post some det... | |
| Full range speakers with small footprint? At 2500, a pair of used Merlin VSMs of a bit older vintage should be easily attainable and after talking to Bobby at Merlin, you can home in a model that can be upgraded to current or near current status when you have the $$. You will get an easy ... | |
| Balanced to RCA or Opposite I would insert the equalizer into the tape loop. Since the signal is so low in amplitude on the phono, any noise in the equalizer will have a large effect on signal/noise ratio. Also phono stage alters frequency response in a "reverse RIAA" curve ... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Great news, Pat. Keep it up, man. Maybe I was wrong when I told me wife that women are clearly tougher than men. | |
| Wife approval factor? Good to hear from you again Detlof. I've been wondering what you have been up to and where you went. Cheers to you as well. | |
| Pure Note Cerulean I thought the speaker cable worked great with several tube amps I have used recently. | |
| tube upgrade for first sound Sorry to get off topic, but I am considering a FS pre to go with my Exemplar 3910-Joule VSN-80- Merlin VSM-MM rig. right now I am using a Supratek Syrah. any comments from yuse guys ? | |
| Separate Transport & DAC: Why not? In addition to real estate and cost of a digital cable, there are also potential jitter problems. Some solve that with a dejitterer ;-) but now you've got 3 boxes and 2 digital cables. I know that I tried that route and eventually went back to a o... | |
| AR-SP16 distortion problem Those are VERY long cable runs. Did ARC know that? Also not sure about using such a long length of RG6 for a line level signal. Maybe one of our tech-heads will chime in. Sean??? | |
| McCormack Silver vs. Gold revision for DNA-125? Not sure about silver v. gold, but I can tell you that my DNA-0.5 Rev A+ was an exceptional amplifier. |