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| New Western Electric 91E 300B Tube Integrated Amp REVIEW ! These are going to need an insanely efficient speaker--I don't run any 300b amps but the Lamm ML2 which can make more than enough power for my needs and sounds great at around 18 watts per chassis. I'm running a horn/hybrid that is nominally 104db... | |
| The fascination of vintage hi-fi: A Look Back +1 @doyle3433 Any chance you can post a photo or two? It means either setting up a virtual system with link or using one of those third party photo hosting sites and linking from there. We like old stuff! | |
| Advice on Repairs for Audio Research VT100 Mk II I don't know this particular model, but had ARC gear for decades- multiple amps, preamps. I still have the Dual 75a that I bought new in 1975-- it is sitting idle with a fresh tube set I bought from ARC a number of years ago. They were never cheap... | |
| Types of Audiophiles Yeah, I dunno that I fit squarely into one category, especially over time. I came up in "audiophile" world, and by the time I was 20, in 1974-5, I had an all ARC tube system with Quads, an SP10 and eventually a mini-HQD set up with Decca Ribbons a... | |
| Hi-Fi and the Folly of Perfection @hilde45 - there's a book called The Perfect Wrong Note which is sort of Zen and the art of playing an instrument (in this case, the piano). It advocates learning from mistakes, not by repeatedly practicing to overcome the mistake, but by "going w... | |
| Hi-Fi and the Folly of Perfection I get what the OP is describing. My first playback system wasn’t really even a proper hi-fi. It was a suitcase stereo with an RCA jack for a detachable speaker (that latched onto the case). Figure this was early ’60s. I jacked the thing into a mus... | |
| Liquid Stylus Cleaners I’ve largely avoided liquids but when I had Lyra cartridges, they promoted a liquid so I used it periodically but mainly relied on dry brushing. I stopped using any dunk-em type cleaner- whether the Zerodust (which, to me didn’t do much more than... | |
| The fascination of vintage hi-fi: A Look Back "Vintage" means different things to different people. I'm not so interested in a mid-'70s era Japanese receiver. I'd be very interested in pre-WarII theatre-related loudspeakers and amplifiers/transformer and the like. What kind of "vintage" are... | |
| Cartridges The question makes it seem like this is a binary choice. I want the best cartridge I can afford that mates with my arm and voices in my system gracefully. I've achieved that at no small cost. As to buying premium "audiophile" records to compensate... | |
| Disappearing Jazz? In addition to the reissues @Sbank mentioned on vinyl-- high quality at a reasonable price, there are current bands- Snarky Puppy out of Northern Texas is a jazz collective that ought to scratch your big band itch. There are similar collectives in... | |
| Audio Desk Systeme - Vinyl Cleaner – Repair of Water Pump Failure Bill Wojo ++ I hear ya. | |
| Audio Desk Systeme - Vinyl Cleaner – Repair of Water Pump Failure Bill- one of the AD units I had would get stuck sometimes the rollers wouldn't retract- Robert Stein, the importer (Cable Company) just told me to "reboot" it like a computer- pull power and let it reset. That did fix that problem for a while. If ... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners @kennyc said" "KL is out of the USRCM business." They were. But Chad at Acoustic Sounds struck a deal to distribute a version of the smaller unit that has a separate reservoir. It also offers a connection to a household water supply. I have no de... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries And in re Canada, there's not a lot of info-- I found a scholarly policy paper behind a paywall that said Capitol EMI established their first plant in Canada in 1976. Another source on Capitol said that they used an RCA plant for pressing in Smith... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries @teo_audio - you aren't off the wall on this. Discogs has pretty detailed info about EMI pressing plants and also covers the Philips/Phonodisc plants. I know from the history of Island Records (which did own a pressing plant at one point that wa... |