zaikesman
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| Chair or Sofa? Which do you use? As of last year I'm now with Bulldogger on the recliner question, though I like to have the headrest available - I don't know how you could recline without it unless you wear a neck-brace while listening. The sofa does give you the multiple listen... | |
| How many AudiogoNers are amateur chefs? Uh, I like to eat...does that count? :-) | |
| what speakers for 40 watt triode? I'm curious whether a different speaker will ameloriate the relative deficiencies of triode, since my experience has always been that switching to triode mode on a push-pull pentode amp will lose you some of the exact qualities you mention - namel... | |
| Yet another call for more Sale catagories... Tok20000, there is currently a section for Receivers under Miscellaneous. | |
| Reversed Polarity LP Cuts - Examples? Rich, I'm sure you realize that this a different scenario and question. I can't see what "fixing" the master in this regard after mixdown could entail except by selectively using info from only one of the channels as necessary to cross-feed into a... | |
| Yet another call for more Sale catagories... Marakanetz, I agree completely about the integrated amp question, and did think of this, but believe it's already been suggested and debated - I could be mistaken in that assumption, however. The way things are organized right now, the tube/SS div... | |
| Speaker rating question.. Yes we are - I wouldn't have it any other way. Which is why I'll add that IMO, no matter how many steps the grading scale had in it, the same basic phenomenon would occur. The 10/10 grade does have a purpose distinct from "New", but by rights shou... | |
| Speaker rating question.. Kurt, please read the posted Audiogon definitions of their AGS scale (just click on any grade, or look it up from the front page) - I think you'll find that the kind of system you desire has always been the official law of the land...it's just tha... | |
| Reversed Polarity LP Cuts - Examples? Cmk, I agree with you on that statement (obviously many folks such as Bob may take some exception), even if it seems to somewhat contradict your previous post. What it really means is that what you're hearing would likely seem largely the same to ... | |
| SS Preamp+valve Amp vs Valve Preamp+SS Amp There are archived threads addressing this subject. I have tried both ways (plus all-tube and all-SS), but I won't make generalizing statements, because my experiences only apply to the gear that I used, not all such combinations. I will say that ... | |
| Speaker rating question.. My recent experience on Audiogon has been that many sellers are overrating their gear. I believe we've experienced "grade-creep", just like the Stereophile RC ratings. A 7/10 piece is a very clean piece according to the standards, but as of now th... | |
| Mosfet vs. Bipolar revisited and the Belles 350A I trust you meant to write either "low-level transparency" or "higher transparency", not "lower transparency"... :-)Goes to show once again that we generalize based on technology stereotypes at our own risk. Glad to learn of your discovery and sat... | |
| Reversed Polarity LP Cuts - Examples? Cmk - If your contention that 1/2 of LP's are pressed with 'reversed phase' were true, and if reversing your system's polarity 'fixed' something like 'weaker bass' supposedly caused by this, then your phono with the inverted polarity woud cause th... | |
| Tubes v. SS: can you mix and match? Webnick, I was not trying to say "...that in general, tube amps tend to be of a higher sound quality than SS amps" - both can have their strengths and weaknesses, and I don't like to generalize sonics as far as 'tube sound' or 'SS sound' types of ... | |
| Help, I'm going crazy with vinyl noise Either that, or chewing gum ought to fix it...sorry to hear that's the problem, but glad you figured it out - and time to get a spare cart! :-) |