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| Passive Pre - No Regrets? Would someone tell me what a TVC design is? I have tried the Placette, the Silver Rock, the Reference, several quality pots with silver selector switches, and the Big Dog. | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? Pubul57, given my personal experience with 5 passive units, I suspect he is suggesting that any passive unit cannot give the speed, transparency, and soundstage of at least some active units. I personally value the purity of passive units caused, ... | |
| 12" 45 RPM records: What's the story? I think that pre-echo is ever present. A low noise system will unveil it. I have been listening more for it lately and have heard both on lps and cds. I maybe that good practices with the magnetic tape and important. As yet I have not heard it on ... | |
| Home made cable lifters. Mmakshak, Elusive Disc and others have utilities insulators for sale. They look like what you see on most telephone and electric poles. All I can say is that I have some of what RightWay Audio used to sell and they sound better than those I found ... | |
| Home made cable lifters. If you have a gas high temperature kiln, shape or mold the shape you need and apply a salt glaze and fire. If not forget about anything other than high fire ceramics. Wood, glass, plastic, and even paper in my experience do not do the job. Even un... | |
| 12" 45 RPM records: What's the story? Pre-echo is evident throughout the record, if there is a loud passage preceeded by a soft passage. I must also say that I have one cd with pre-echo, but it is a reissue with remastering, so it could be magnetic transfer.I view pre-echo as one of t... | |
| Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3 I think the polnt is that people will pay nothing if they can. Copywrite laws have found a temporary solution of one copy for your self or in other areas for personal use.I don't know how this willl be resolved but clearly the cat is out of the ba... | |
| Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3 If you bought the cd, it is yours. Copying it for resale is unlawful. Copying it for personal use is not. Copying it for personal use and then deciding to sell the cd, seems to me a gray area. I think that RIAA has created a red herring about the ... | |
| 12" 45 RPM records: What's the story? Yes, reissues 45s are better than their 33.3 originals. More dynamic and transparent. They take two records to equal one record in 33.3 and thus why they were not issued that way. LPs were issued because they could provide 30 minutes of music per ... | |
| JADE AUDIO Cables Hey, guys, where do you get these cables? | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables I love people saying that what they have is the best with no evidence that they have made any comparisons. It really causes me to what to try what they recommend!It is very interesting how little agreement there is about the best sounding intercon... | |
| What are the best tube amps for Klipschorns? As Paul Klipsch used to say, "what the world needs is a good one watt amplifier. I do not recall what the efficiency of the Klipschorns are but it is probably over 100db. I was very happy with my 1.56 watt SET 45 tube amp when I had speaker of suc... | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio, How Good Are They? Adagios at the previous RMAF definitely sounded better on the Red Dragon class D amps than on the tube amp of unknown origin that was later put on them. | |
| DK Design Review Thanks for doing it right, Larry and John. I had all but concluded that all speakers, regardless of price, were hopelessly flawed compromises. Some with the quickness of music with frequency errors throughout and with limited high and bottom ends,... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Well, I have heard a good speaker finally. One that does not have a boxy sound, that has a sharp leading edge, that has the pace of music, that images realistically, that has all frequencies arriving at the same time, and one where the speakers th... |