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| What should be under my speakers? If it were me I would write Steve Herbelin at Herbie's Audio Lab and ask what he suggests. I have his Grounding Bases under my Meadowlarks' spikes ( to good effect ) but he has other products for your purpose as well.Herbie's | |
| Best material for inexpensive amp stands Cork is a selective absorber, not a broad-spectrum absorber. It operates at specific frequencies and not outside them. This is great if it happens to target the frequencies that bother your amps, not so great if not.I have tube monoblocks on maple... | |
| Which budget digital cable ? Haven't heard Joemazzaglia's digital cables but his analog ones certainly are, as Listener57 says, budget in price and elevated in performance.I'm very happy with my expensive Atlas Opus and I would think the cheaper Atlas Compass worth a try. I h... | |
| Footers - isolation or resonance draining Aball and Ckorody--very good primer on footers. | |
| Need Some Educated Advice...For a Newbie Tuber I don't own a Jolida amp but all the tube amps I have owned have benefited from certain special kindnesses.The first is to get them down to the floor if you can. Bass gets better. Next is footers. Some swear by brass cones or spikes, others by sof... | |
| Please recommend a top-notch bookshlef speaker North Creek Kitty Kat Revelator. Made especially to sound best within three inches of the back wall. Tiny, wonderful speakers with amazing bass and midrange smoothness from top notch drivers and crossover components. The only thing you give up, wi... | |
| I bought a TT--Need a phonopre The SimAudio LP3 is a great phono stage for about that money, and I bet you can make it sound even better by running it off a battery. | |
| The best phono stage out there? IMHO the best of anything is not necessarily the most expensive or even the best-sounding; it's the best you can get a deal on. Sort of like shopping the specials.The best special I know of at the moment is an Audiomat 1.5 from UHF Magazine. I bel... | |
| Best wood for an isolation platform Yioryos, thanks for the carpentry info. The maple is really worth doing IME. For platforms your size I would go the same route as you, I think. Mine are a lot smaller, at 12.5" x 17". | |
| AT - 33 prestige . Is it repairable ? I would say that if it's the same price, go for the Soundsmith recommendation. | |
| Best wood for an isolation platform I use 3-inch custom-made maple platforms under my Audio Space tube monoblocks. I ordered them unfinished from Arcadia Audio at what I think was a very reasonable price, then finished them myself.I set my amps on EdenSound BearPaw heavy brass cones... | |
| Bedini Class "A" 200/200 power amp vs. MC-2205? Mr. Jackson, I am sure your ears are telling you right. McIntosh are not best known for their solid-state designs, and these are not Class A either. Class A does wonders for transistors IME, it seems to remove a layer of grunge. IMHO the Bedini sh... | |
| Looking for a great el34 based amp Audiomat Arpège and Prelude Reference, both more expensive than the two I recommended above. Not Class A AFAIK but don't let that stop you giving all these guys a listen, hee hee. The Audiomats won't let you bias them easily. Instead, as I underst... | |
| Looking for a great el34 based amp Audio Space AS-3i. Bias controls on the top panel. Small footprint FWIW, cute-looking, responds nicely to tweaks. Has front-panel feedback control and triode/ultralinear switch.The Rogue Cronus is another interesting option, a little more power, a... | |
| Two-part headphone question Sure you can run an extender, although that will both increase the price of your phones and tend to downgrade the sound slightly, owing to the extra cable and especially the connectors.As for phones to try out the concept with, sound quality and c... |