vicdamone
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| Best Solid State Amp w/ Avalon Eidolon Diamonds It seems that you have a goal or at least a direction but you're enjoying the auditioning. That's the hobby up until your taste narrows and you become goal orientated and that's the hobby too. So, good for you. I've auditioned many amplifiers in m... | |
| Bob Carver LLC Black Beauty Review Dragon & KensterDragon give Walt at Underwood Hi-Fi a call 770 667-5633 for an answer.Kenster FYI, you may have read my post on the other Bob Carver thread above. Any modification other than tubes may void the products seven year transferable ... | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly This becomes an interesting read towards the bottom. http://db.AudioAsylum.com/mhtml/m.html?forum=tubes&n=231311&highlight=6al5&r=&search_url=%2Fcgi%2Fsearch.mpl%3Fforum%3Dtubes%26searchtext%3D6al5 | |
| SL1200 upgrade tonearm or replace cartridge? Original arm. I read somewhere, and maybe someone else can speak more definitively, that the servo circuit within the SL motor is constantly hunting for the proper rpm. While looking at the strobe it appears to be visually stable but the motor is ... | |
| Replacement for Maggie's? I'm not a fan of panel speakers for their laser like sweet spot, dynamic ability and generally poor transition to what ever is being used for low frequency. A trade show is no place to be critical of a product but I was extremely impressed with Sa... | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly Carver 305s are now listed in Jonathan Valin's reference system at he end of the Audio Research Corp. trio review in the January 2013 edition of TAS. As Dracule mentioned earlier in this thread the Carver 305 are also listed in the TAS "Upper-End ... | |
| SL1200 upgrade tonearm or replace cartridge? Concerning the Benz I would strongly suggest replacement with the new S-Class cartridge. I've read some time back that Benz suspended the re-tip and upgrade for a period of time.I have an original version of the SL 1200. I also was loaned a much o... | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly After rereading the manuals Warrantee the idea of voiding a seven year warrantee gives me second thoughts of incredibly intriguing modifications. Enjoy. | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly Good one Drac. I haven't been under to hood on my 180's. Is that two or four Teflon Vcaps per mono block? Will the Vcaps be replacing some existing caps? | |
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| Can a $3K table be among the best out there? My friend Lewm. you're absolutly correct. Thank you. Going forward I may use the word filament or fish wire. | |
| Digital Or Traditional Preamp? Yeah, what Zd said. If I were young enough not to own any LP's the Empirical Audio Overdrive SE USB DAC/Pre is simply stunning. The Empirical demonstration at the last RMAF had many old grumpy analog types scratching their butts. Consider the Over... | |
| Can a $3K table be among the best out there? The Well Tempered arm is the only arm I know of that can survive a test record resonance test without literally flying of the record. There are no bearings in the arm.When you first handle the arm you'll immediately feel the resistance in all dire... | |
| Tube Amps for Revel Salons PDog, I forgot to mention that Jeff Rowland uses the Salon 2 in one of their listening rooms. There's lost of decent solid state designs. Rowland's work has a little something that I never fail to hear even in the most ridiculous circumstances. |