tonyptony
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| Speaker life expectancy: How long can you buy used My Shahinian Diapasons are coming up on 20 years old. It was only this year that I had to replace the passive radiators. When mine were built the passives used a foam type surround. It took about 19 years for them to distintegrate. Fortunately Sha... | |
| Luciano Pavarotti dead at 71 If you don't already have it, get the Decca (London) recording of him in the William Tell. One can debate the Muti recording on Philips being a better musical performance, but on this Luciano's voice is glorious.http://www.amazon.com/Rossini-Gugli... | |
| Acousctic Zen Sil. Ref. II and Absolute, anyone? Florian, I have the SRII between my source and preamp. I compared them to Kimber KCAG, PAD Venustas, Cardas Neutral Ref, and an XLO (forget which one). Picked them because they had the best combination of clarity, speed, and soundstaging while ret... | |
| Looking for a good Tech near Princeton, NJ Hmm, I'm in the same general area and may need some work on SS gear. Does anyone know how Bob does on things like transports, etc? | |
| What are your thoughts on hybrid amplifiers? I own the Van Alstine FetValve Ultra amp. Tube input stage, SS output stage. It is a killer amp, combining the beauty and HF extension of tubes with the control and articulation of SS. Yes, it can be done, and in this case done very very well. I'v... | |
| Help with PC Audio Quality vs. CD It still isn't "quite" up to par as the CD transport to a MSB digital director (jitter correction) then to the DAC using glass toslinks. It sounds VERY good, and it's close... but it's just not quite there. Not quite as involving and the soundstag... | |
| Best CD sound: Marantz SA8001 or Rega Apollo? The analogy I've heard is that you need to spend 20k to better them4est, I'm not sure I'm in as complete agreement with you on this. I have a BOLDER digital modified SB3 that I've been using for over a year with a good linear supply (but not the s... | |
| What is the best used sub-$500 DAC? Concur with the Museatex, but will also add the EAD DSP7000 Mk.III. | |
| 40ft: speaker cable or interconnect? John, long single ended *is* possible. I solved the problem I was having (described above) by moving to a new amp (which I was coincidentally looking to do anyway). My new amp is an AVA FetValve, which has a very high (and stable) input imdedance ... | |
| 40ft: speaker cable or interconnect? John, one thing to keep in mind is the output impedance of your preamp and the input impedance of the amp. I was in the same situation as you last year, and discovered to my dismay that my old amp's input stage oscillated uncontrolably with long I... | |
| Attenuator recommendations In most cases I would use one at the input of the preamp though instead of the input to the ampYeah, I'd have to agree with that, Herman. Makes it more complicated for me, though. First I'd have to build or buy multiple pairs. And second, my main ... | |
| Attenuator recommendations Thanks for asking for clarification, I've had too much espresso todayNot a problem. :) I may call him about this. I wonder if he builds the shunts in the same sort of RCA M-F assembly as Rothwell. I'm dying to find out where to get that kind of th... | |
| Attenuator recommendations Guy at Placette can make you some plug in attenuators with a single VishayCyto, I'm not sure I see how this is possible, unless Guy uses the input impedance of the downstream component as the parallel element in the resistive divider. But I'm stil... | |
| Attenuator recommendations Clio09, what did you think of the Rothwells? There are some reports on AA that suggest they "color" the sound a bit. | |
| Affordable center channel to match Sophia's? Well, I'm going off on a tangent here, but I bought a pair of Swans M200s from John at Gustosounds when he listed recently on the 'gon. Figured I'd try them as cheap self powered surrounds. Yeah, I know they're not dipoles or bipoles, but I figure... |