wrm57
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| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s Take a look at offerings from Aric Audio. I’ve owned the Transcend Push Pull for 14 months and it is excellent. With KT150 tubes, you get a stiff 65w of Class A in UL mode. It also takes KT120, KT88, and EL34 with respectively diminishing power. A... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? @mijostyn Thanks. I get that the counterweight coating is something of a band aid. As you say, why not a non-resonant weight? And I got a laugh out the image of a steering wheel with a shock absorber attached, although it is obviously absurd while... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? The OL has no damping at all. @mijostyn , I always appreciate your posts and learn a lot from them, even when I disagree. I’m wondering why you make this claim. OL’s description of the Agile plainly states: The Agile has undergone lengthy exp... | |
| klipsch cornwall iv upgraded crossovers @ptrck887 , Herbie’s Giant Gliders tightened up the bass for me, as well as making it easier to slide the speakers on hardwood. I affixed one under each corner with double-sided carpet tape. BTW, I performed the same mods as you, along with swapp... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? Google Thom Mackris at Galibier Design. He carries both lines and is very knowledgable. | |
| Minimum Power Needed to Drive Klipsch Cornwall IVs? - Considering Erhard_Audio Ray In my 460 sq ft room with 8 ft ceilings, 3 watts of high quality SET is not enough, but 8 watts is more than enough and glorious. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? I have main-system speakers of 89bd/4ohms, 91db/4ohms, and 102db/8ohms. They match up with main amps of 100w Class A SS, 65w PP tube Class A, 8w SET, respectively. Each time I swap in a new combo, it’s my favorite. Many roads to Dublin. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms This disqualifies most VTA towers. People who insist on them need to find themselves a good hobby like cooking or basket weaving. Either/Or reasoning, common among true believers and propagandists, is a rhetorical fallacy that undermines the fo... | |
| Which EPA-100 bearings? That's good advice, @rauliruegas. Much appreciated. | |
| Finally, Amazon Learns to Package Records. I buy directly from labels and musicians when I can, but invariably get some LPs from Amazon. Like Mijo says, the ease of returns is hard to turn down. I’ve gotten many warped records and bad pressings from all sources, especially in the last few ... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? Four times with positive results (Galante Silverdales, Merlin TSM-MME, Perlisten S7t SE, Klipsch Cornwall IV), two with negative (PBN Montana, Spatial X3). The positives are still with me; the negatives did not last. I feel the only way to know a ... | |
| My Four Favorite SS Amps Reference Line Silver Signature, especially after Roger Modjeski updated it for me with a custom soft start. Still in rotation after 24 years, and still the best SS amp I’ve ever heard. | |
| Which EPA-100 bearings? @dover , good info, thanks. | |
| Which EPA-100 bearings? @pindac , thank you for those links. Very interesting, especially moisin’s comments. @rauliruegas , I appreciate your experience in this matter, as in others analog. Is it that you think the ruby material (actually sapphire, as it turns out) has ... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Perfect, thanks. Where did you find this? |