zaikesman
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| I need some clarity There are a ton of options - why not give us your budget? Other things being equal, floorstanders will cost more, not less, than 'bookshelf' speakers (the term "monitors" is used interchangably, if not entirely correctly, and is derived from the s... | |
| Your top 10 vinyl LPs that never made it to CD Nice taste, Albert. I never really think about this, owning as I do (like you) a large majority of vinyl over CD's, but just glancing at your list, I think that The Yardbirds "OUSD" is now out on CD (with extras, I believe), though it may be an im... | |
| New Tubes=Noisy Phono Section with VTL 2.5 The MC section will always be the crucial test for tube quietness because of the high gain level employed, but still, quieter tubes will = less noise. Did you specifically tell Kevin that these tubes were for an MC phono section? He should, IMO, o... | |
| groovin organ based soul & jazz This got to be such an over-played and over-commodified genre pretty quickly, but the best cuts by the best players still stand up. Most of the important practioners are mentioned above, so I'll just add that one of the main ingredients in the cla... | |
| HELP w/Preamp Polarity Inversion Problem Elgordo, your contention that the whole catalogs of certain record labels were issued with inverted polarity doesn't make sense to me, considering that many recordings have no absolute 'correct' phase orientation to begin with, particularly multi-... | |
| Bent Silver TX102 compared to Placette RVC Thanks for the report - although I'm not considering going passive and losing preamp gain in my system, I have been interested in learning about the transformer approach. I read with interest Dick Olsher's recent Enjoythemusic.com review of the Au... | |
| Hammond b-3 organ Tweakgeek, I've had a C3 with a Leslie 145 front and center in my living room before, and I don't necessarily recommend the decorating approach (although the Hammond was chopped, to be fair). That monstrosity had to go several years back (unfortun... | |
| Guilty Pleasures: Throwaway Pop "Sugar Sugar" is still my girlfriend's all-time fav tune, with the possible exceptions on alternating days of The Monkees' "Valerie" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Well, at least she's admirably steadfast in her dedication to simplistic ... | |
| I need some clarity Lawbadman, I can't tell you which speakers to get, nor would I presume to try. You'll need to listen to some things yourself if at all possible. What I want to stress is that you don't need "brighter" speakers, as you say - tonal balance is only p... | |
| Tubes with Thiel CS-3.6's? has anyone had success? Unsound, the precise ad copy reads "Uniform, resistive load works well with lower power amplifiers". I think Thiel's trying to tell us something - namely, that the 2.4 won't suck current like a Shop-Vac. So I will assume for the time being that th... | |
| I need some clarity I find it both amusing and sad - how many times do audiophiles have to been reminded not to treat cable swaps, tube swaps, tweaky supports, etc. as band-aids for fundamental system shortcomings? Lawbadman has a mid-fi system right now: Fine, we al... | |
| I need some clarity Dweller has identified your main problem. I used to sell MMG's retail, and while they are fun little speakers for the dough, you will not get crystal clarity out of them no matter what's before them in the chain - they lack the extension (both in ... | |
| CJ CAV 50 vs. VTL IT 85 vs. Rogue Tempest Between the CAV-50 and the IT-85, I'd go with the VTL based on my demo of my own MV-55 against the ST-85 (these are the non-integrated versions of the same amps). Can't comment about with your speakers though, and biasing the C-J is easier since i... | |
| Tubes with Thiel CS-3.6's? has anyone had success? Unsound, as Drubin emailed me today, Thiel is listing the 2.4 on their website as being 87dB sensitive (the correct term for almost any measurement like this you'll encounter, though since almost all the measurements tend to be fudged a bit anyway... | |
| Tubes with Thiel CS-3.6's? has anyone had success? Turnaround, maybe you've noticed that Thiel lately seems to be paying more attention to making their speakers a bit easier to drive than sometimes in the past. I do not think this is specifically in response to demand by tube amp users, but more f... |