swampwalker
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| Use Your Own Ears When a friend asks your opinion about their labor of love, how do you tell them politely without insulting, or ticking them off?Excellent question and one that requires knowing your friend and having the emotional intelligence to find a way to exp... | |
| The future of preamps OK, George and Knghifi- Point taken. I've got nothing to add technically to this discussion so I will retreat to the sidelines and lurk silently. | |
| The future of preamps So far no one has pointed out the obvious so maybe it does not need saying, but a review of this thread and several others leads one to believe that George is "defending his turf" by talking trash about competitive active pre-amps. And I say this ... | |
| Bookshelves atop SVS subs? Nautilus 805 DIY 801 You mean like my Ref 3A Supremas w the Royal Master monitors atop a pair of passive isobarik subs? Or the Von Schweikert 4, 4Sr and 4 jr, or the Hyperion (forget which one)? Lots of speakers set up that way these days. One concern is to prevent th... | |
| Why so many cut Nordost Odins? I think it's safe to say that Nordost will have no public comment. | |
| KLH Model 12 Check w Madisound or Parts Connexion or there are speaker repairman (Bill Miller maybe) who can probably help. | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? There are lots of tube amps that can equal or out-perform ARC amps AND have fused protection for the output tubes. Any output device tube or solid state can fail. A design that results in a major, $$, cascading failure as a result of a reasonably ... | |
| Proofreader wanted Don't get me started on the editing failures in the Hartford Courant, our local daily newspaper, which has more misspellings and grammatical errors that you can count on your fingers and toes in each edition. It appears that their money woes are s... | |
| Using a RS SPL meter Good advice from Geoffkait and Tom 6897 (an ear is a terrible thing to waste). But also you should read the J. Gordon Holt article in the Stereophile archives on flat frequency response and consider that along w the impact of the measures you take... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? 1. General consensus is that for safety purposes, it's not a good idea to leave a tube amp unattended for any significant period of time. In my case, that means if I leave the house, I turn it off. 2. Let 'em warm up if you want, but no reason not... | |
| no sound with new DAC.....possible reasons why? See if your DAC is recognized as the audio device in your control panel or whatever Mac calls it. | |
| Happy Christmas And a merry christmas to you, too, from the winning side of the pond ;-) | |
| Replace 12AU7 with 6SN7 ? I cannot say anything about your unit but I am using a Modwright transporter with converters to use 6SN7s instead of the 9 pin dual triodes that it was originally designed for. It works fine. Of course in this case, the designer himself makes the ... | |
| The future of preamps Will do, Charles and Iso. I'm very interested in hearing what OB speakers sound like at home; I heard a pair of GRs at RMAF in 2011 and was very impressed w how dynamic and coherent they were, so I'm excited to give these a whirl. The amps that ar... | |
| preamp Luxman C1000 - how set up gain/volume ? In general, you would set the gain so that your volume control operates in the middle of its range when the system volume is where you typically listen. Since most attenuators (volume) are logarithmic in their operation and provide better channel ... |