tom_nice
Responses from tom_nice
| Wanted...Recommendations on Mapleshade I recently got four Mapleshade CD's--really six, since I sent two female vocalists back, just didn't like them much. I'm about to order four more because the sound quality is simply the best I've ever heard from a CD, and I have a number of Chesky... | |
| Do I really need a preamp? I second the opinion of Themusicshop, and have looked at the Welborne Labs kit (or assembled) unit he recommends. If you can do a kit, I'd ask Welborne how big the steps are, and negociate about getting different resistors for the kit, so as to ma... | |
| Pass Aleph 3 high current? Why not ask Nelson Pass? Find their web site--I think it's www.passlabs.com--and look for a "contact" email address. He's always given me fairly prompt (often very prompt) and very useful replies. I have two Aleph 3's that I'm using as monoblocks,... | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... No density apologies called for, I should have explained (if I didn't). Following Nelson Pass's advice, I'm paralleling both inputs, through Y-adapters for my interconnect cables, and outputs, by bundles of wire between L/R binding posts. I'm told... | |
| Power Amp for newbie Quite apart from brands and price points, I'd advise you to at least look into the possibility of monoblock power amps. I used conventional stereo amps for decades, some very good ones included, but after trying a couple kinds of monoblocks I'll n... | |
| Is Cinepro any good? I have the Cinepro 20 Line Balancer in a two-channel stereo system, and it was one of my best additions. I can be set to play an LP at normal listening level and not be able to tell, with my ear against a speaker, that the system is on.The idea be... | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... Drubin, I don't have the option of biamping or biwiring with my Quad ESL 63's. But for anyone who does, I'd certainly give it a try, though I'd ask Nelson Pass about it first. I don't think there's any risk to amps or speakers, but there still may... | |
| Is My Room Large Enough? Sorry, I meant soom MODES, not nodes. Bad proof-reading. | |
| Is My Room Large Enough? I'd get F. Alton Everest's "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget", which deals with acoustic treatment of domestic listening rooms (despite its title), and maybe the 4th edition of his "Master Handbook of Acoustics", for ideas on making your room... | |
| Speaker Cable Length I'd even go so far as to advise people, where feasible, to think of replacing a conventional stereo power amp with a pair of monoblocks. I got the benefits Rute specified in a big way when I changed from 7' speaker cables to 18" ones. But even dro... | |
| Seeking Opinions on Stealth speaker wire Hoping that I can respond to this without getting yelled at for "incessant" praise of Stealth, I happen to be able tpo supply first hand info. I went from expensive homemade speaker cables, containing a lot of Kimber AGHSS, to Audio Magic Spellcas... | |
| Koetsu Black mc Maybe the first thing to say about it is that it's old, on the scene maybe as long as 15 years ago, maybe longer, for all I know. The second thing to say is that it's below the Koetsu Red or Rosewood in their line. Maybe a third thing is that it w... | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... A further remark: I'm using two Alpeh 3's as monoblocks, with 8' interconnects and 18" speaker cables, and have made direct comparisons with a single Aleph 3, 1M interconnects and 7' speaker cables, and the benefits of going to monoblocks are trem... | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... I own Aleph 3's and have been told that Aleph 5's are essentially the same design with more power, and the further plus of accepting XLR connectors. What I can contribute here is mainly a question: do the Alephs other than 3 and 5 have only two ga... | |
| Turntable innertubes: air, water, oil Megasam, I knew already that air bladders are commercially used--isn't that implicit in my post? But thanks anyway for the information, even though for me it wasn't. Redkiwi, I've come to respect your expertise from other posts, but if "the sharpn... |