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| Shakti Stone My local dealer told me that the Shakti Sone was his most returned item. | |
| "Too much gain"? (Cary SLP05 question) Please note that Cary’s preamp gain is done BEFORE it reaches either the trim or main volume control. The only thing that trim pots and the main volume control do is attenuate the signal. The volume controls will not alter the noise floor as it ... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? If you want to increase the scale, weight and dynamics you need to focus on reducing the system’s noise floor. The turntable, cartridge, tonearm, and the resting platform must optimized to work together. | |
| Seeking a recommendation for a reasonably priced Class 1 SPL meter Wouldn’t you be better off investing your money into a calibrated microphone that feeds into an acoustic measurement software program like Room EQ Wizard. | |
| Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes? If you have expensive NOS or OS tubes you might want to wear gloves to help prevent body oils from removing the sometimes delicate silk screen tube markings. Nothing to do with decreased performance or longevity, but merely cosmetic | |
| Cary SLP 98 users, past and present, are there any left? There is an inexpensive app called “Speaker Pop” which can tell you the polarity of each driver. It works as described. I’ve used to make sure that each speaker was wired with the same polarity. You would be surprised at how many speaker “pairs” ... | |
| Sold Sold Sold Now that we have heard from both sides of the story, IMHO, @zappas owes the dealer an apology for attempting to drag his name through the mud. | |
| Krell Moves to new location The dog ate my homework, the cheque is the mail, I will only put the tip in, your package is on its way,. We have all heard it before. | |
| I am sad Perhaps that foreign manufacture of your amplifier is too busy trying to figure out how the US tariffs will affect their business? | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @atmasphere wrote Because the customer has to be able to plug it in right away. Even though they may never use the stock cord, if you were a manufacturer and didn't include it you'd hear about it right away. Then why don’t amplifier manufacture... | |
| Preamp Output Completely Different with Tube Amplifier versus Solid State Amplifier @mulveling excellent response! Bang on | |
| What does your Virtual System page say about you? As any good investigator will tell you….follow the money. In this case, follow the signal. Source to speakers | |
| Krell Moves to new location I have a friend who has had an amplifier at Krell for repair for almost a year now. He has heard absolutely nothing from Krell, and has had no response(s) to his enquires sent to various people mentioned in the Stereophile article including the K... | |
| Transformer Hum DC on the main line can mysteriously appear and disappear. Glad you figured it out. | |
| Preamp with separate volume control for each channel? Aren’t you looking for a preamp with a balance control? |