tomic601
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| A Question About Time Alignment like kids arguing about HP and valvetrains when not much of that horsepower makes it to the ground…. excellent systems engineering rarely focuses on a variable or two… Time, Phase, pistonic motion, low diffraction, energy storage in the radiating ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks Brian - excellent season but it’s over up North anywayyyy…. Second play thru in as many days… Nagra 70 th , jury out on absolute value but certain bits are excellent sonics… | |
| Tube preamp options OP - Johnny R is a great dude and has setup many Quattro in many rooms. If you go down the path of pulling them out, which is a worthy experiment, make sure you rerun Vandertones AND especially revisit the Q setting to get back some or all of the ... | |
| Tube preamp options it is a very serious effort…i believe the production level prototype weighs about 30# and has 12 regulated supplies…. but don’t quote me… ha. IF you have been to a Vandersteen seminar at dealers, he has been talking about it a bit…. There are 3 e... | |
| Tube preamp options i think what might be more illustrative is to look at the Vandersteen amplifiers for potential clues… The M7 is all out hybrid tube and SS outputs with a SE quasi ciirclotron typology with liquid cooling for perfect bias, no emiter resistors….bu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? reunited w my vinyl rig after a Summer away fishing… In arrears today: Fleetwood Mac - Future Games on now: Tom Petty - Wildflowers and All the Rest | |
| Tube preamp options and in particular from the acoustic lens which is equidistant from midrange and tweeter… there is a reason the Quattro is a minimum front baffle and deep cabinet… again, great topics for the Vandy forum where there are many Quattro owners… Glad t... | |
| Tube preamp options and i have a Herron phono…. Keith is a great dude - super gear…definitely neutral…. no rose colored orchestra there….. | |
| Tube preamp options oh…i forgot to mention Brinkmann. Brinkmann and Vandy pair fantastically- Helmut and Richard typically show together at the Munich Audio show… I have a Bardo / Triplaner / Lyra Delos on HRS base. I have heard some of the electronics in Mk I trim b... | |
| Tube preamp options OP - Spencer is right, i don’t post much here anymore…but your thread interests me beyond the Vandersteen aspects… ALL of the preamps so far mentioned have or are capable of significant soundstage depth… It has been a bit but i don’t remember the... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? @noromance Brian, you are very kind. Hopefully you are enjoying the warm glow of tubes in great health. Perhaps i shall return in some depth…after close of fishing….. perhaps…. Jim | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My one step Kind of Blue has a freaking … POP…. i am so disappointed they weren’t able to “ fix “ that in the digital domain….. Normally in the all analog remastering process, a lightning hand on the EQ…can take out those nasty ticks and pops….. | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? i look to Ted Nugent for nuggets of spiritual guidance….. I would adopt a self proclaimed world traveler, but i ran out of pages..in like my 6th passport…. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @big_greg i can drive down and pickup all the MoFi digital trash… at firesale pricing, of course… wink…. | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? y’all understand distortion counts as output..in the overly simplistic efficiency measurement…. right ? |