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| Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier Steve McCormack claims there's a speaker-control advantage to using balanced-differential output drive that can aid in achieving superior resolution and transparency. How supportable that view is, or why, I'm not qualified to say, other than to re... | |
| Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier Seth: I own many 80's CDs that sound just fine, so if you're throwing yours away, please feel free to throw 'em over here. | |
| Beating the RVG Horse Qdrone: I recently got the RVG CD of "Outward Bound" [New Jazz/Concord]. It's the only version I have, but I don't think the tonal balances sound all that natural and the ride cymbal can be downright annoying. The whole thing has a certain 'mechan... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Status Quo - Spare PartsOutkast - StankoniaThe Velvet Underground - White Light/White HeatShonen Knife - Brand New KnifeGo To Blazes - Love, Lust & TroubleThe New Colony Six - At The River's Edge | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? Audioblazer: Most systems probably never draw more than about half of 15 amps from the wall. Some folks do think 20-amp IEC connectors sound better than 15-amp ones, but that's supposedly due to the physical construction of the contacts rather tha... | |
| Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier Thanks Sodapop, I'd even forgotten I ever posted here...I really enjoy the DNA-500, which actually runs fairly cool and doesn't suck a ton of wall power. I'll wait on any more amp auditioning until I upgrade my speakers, which are about due at thi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Kehut: I was just spinning Oscar Plays Cole this very morning, but on a German CD reissue. It really sounds extremely good -- not at all "digital" -- but I haven't done a direct comparison with the vinyl. (I have quite a few Peterson Verve LPs but... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Alice Coltrane - Universal ConsciousnessKing Pleasure - Golden DaysGabor Szabo & Bobby Womack - High ContrastTodd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True StarRoland Kirk - Kirk In CopenhagenThe Pretty Things - Electric Banana | |
| Speakers small enough for desktop use I did keep the Roles, but still intend to audition others. I've just put it off, mostly because I loathe dealing with audio stores, partly because I'm not ready to set up the whole desktop system yet, and partly because I'm enjoying these well eno... | |
| All tube system or Tube with SS phono? Don't expect to necessarily "lose bass" with a tube phonoamp. Compared to solid-state tubes might show a little less bass control (if the rest of your system can reveal it), however weak bass would be the result of an impedance mismatch with the p... | |
| Bose Wave Music system About a month ago I spent half an hour in Target comparing the Boston Acoustics Recepter radio and the Sony table radio that Sam Tellig spilled ink on. I like the BA better, especially its design, but wouldn't spend the money charged for these on ... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt It's about a J-O-K-E that Cwlondon made. | |
| How significant is a power cord upgrade? Jmcgrogan2 wrote:"I am now of the mindset that the power cords affect the sound, good or bad, more than interconnects or speaker cables do"I've heard this occur as well -- and thought the same thing at times -- but I wouldn't state it as being any... | |
| Where did tracking error go? That terminology? It's just an advertising man talking... | |
| Where did tracking error go? BTW, meant to correct this days ago and forgot, but the variable tracking angle error -- as compared with the constant cutting angle -- that's intrinsic to pivoted arms and absent from linear ones isn't the "azimuth", as was implied above (it's si... |