yoyoyaya
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| How long should high quality speakers last? If the drive units have non foam surrounds, twenty years plus. Beyond that, some crossover components might need refurbishment. That's assuming the speakers are driven within normal parameters - not used as PA for parties. That's for moving coil ... | |
| Which end is which? Did we not go over this whole cable directionality thing ad nauseam in another recent thread? | |
| Unipivot tone arms The new Clearaudio magnetically stabilised unipivot provides the best aspects of unipivot and dual axis bearing arms - fabulous arm. | |
| Who has kids that are in a band or have been? @OP Very true. In the music biz there's a lot of truth in the saying "it's not what you know, it's who you know". | |
| Who has kids that are in a band or have been? Good commercial pop song. The drummer playing open handed puts him into a fairly select group. The ability to make money out of original music is in inverse proportion to its democratisation and, unfortunately that's only going to get worse with ... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound I've always found Philips and Decca's 1970s recordings to be good. | |
| 300 Watt Tube Monoblocks Get a pair of Class A transistor amps. With the poor quality of modern power tubes, chasing failures in 16 or so tubes is a sure recipe for misery. | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers As has been said several times above - one set of cables and same cable jumpers. One quality cable is better than two inferior ones. | |
| Best $10-15K bookshelf speaker? I generally don't mention things I haven't personal experience of, but the Thrax Siren sounds like a potentially excellent speaker in that price range. | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @dwette - yes. I am very familiar with all of Clearaudio's lineup. If you have the opportunity, try to get to listen to the same combination with the Unity v the Universal - there is a significant difference. | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @lewm, to supplement what dwette says above, the Master Innovation upgrade is pretty close to buying a second Innovation turntable with all of the parts count that goes with that and that is what the price reflects. The new Clearaudio Unity arm i... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Fans of the Who - and Tommy, in particular - may have a rather different interpretation of the term "fiddle". Separately, the LP12 was also designed with undamped suspension - SME and modern Oracles have silicone damping for their suspensions. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf. I am fully aware that the newer LP 12s are much better built in terms of materials and manufacturing tolerances. Fair point, however. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Linn and its dealers cultivated a mythology about the need for "fettling" of the LP12. God knows, I fettled enough of them to know, and to curse why the damn thing was so badly designed/toleranced in the first place. | |
| Are EL34 based amps more musical than KT series based ? Or it's purely a matter of design? Something from the guitar amp world. EL 34s have a different distortion signature to 6L6s - an evolved KT66. 34s clip more quickly but have a smoother distortion - think of a Marshall stack v a Fender Twin Reverb. However, we use Marshalls becaus... |