zaikesman
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| VTL MB-450 B+ Fuse Peter: Are the KTKs available for much less than $8 a pop? | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? I could frankly give a hang about the audio angle of vinyl or turntables -- it's a significantly flawed medium from the sonic standpoint (among others) and is not synonymous with the word "analog" as many audiophiles carelessly assume it to be, an... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable "I am sure the threaded spindle from KAB would most likely be a major improvement as your Michell clamp. I however use a brass puck that is almost one kilo and the results are stunning in deeper bass and image and timbre."I'm reluctant to add much... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable BTW, KAB already offers a threaded spindle modification for their dedicated screw-down clamp (which I haven't tried in place of my Michell). | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable Citation16: Are you talking about the spindle per se, or the bearing? Personally I think both are fine, but wonder how you can add damping here.About the platter, adding any kind of hard topper will be very difficult due to the slight conical conc... | |
| Amp for Thiel CS1.5? Main concern would be how large a room you've got. If on the smaller side (appropriate for these speakers), even a decent push-pull tube 50-watter could sound better than many affordable SS 100-watters (that's the experience I had with my 2.2's in... | |
| Reciever Questions. Thiels. Although (to play devil's advocate)...I believe neither the sealed-box 3.5's, especially if used without the bass EQ but with a self-powered sub, nor the smaller 1.2's, would be the current hogs some Thiels can be, nor as transparently revealing a... | |
| Exactpower Ep15a or PS-Audio p500 I own an EP-15A and like what it does.The rap on the older PS Audio regenerators was that they necessarily were somewhat inefficient due to their use of a traditional linear amplifier to regenerate the entire powerline. Though I don't know the det... | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Mr. Hansen: Thanks for your expanded comments and the link, I did not recall that JA admitted to some mystification about his results. I certainly agree that these jitter tests seem to be exquisitely sensitive and should probably be taken at somet... | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Mr. Hansen: I recall JA once writing something to the effect of cautioning that his jitter test results should only be compared to his own past numbers -- that they can't be cross-compared with numbers from other sources, and that it's where they ... | |
| do burnt CD copys sound as good as originals? Sounds somewhat like the approach taken by the newer Meridian players just being discussed on another thread. | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Bigtee: When you say "I have noticed higher jitter levels with this technology", are you referring to figures published in reviews, or manufacturer specs? (Forgive me for assuming you're not set up to determine this for yourself.) Or are you makin... | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Bigtee: I have no personal experience with the Meridians you mention, but presumably the drawer mechanism felt cheaper because it was cheaper -- beginning I believe with the 588 and continuing in the G08, as far as I know Meridian switched to usin... | |
| 4 ohms to 8 ohm speakers? Of course the tap that sounds the best to you is the one to use, but the one that sounds the loudest indicates the most efficient power transfer, and potentially lowest distortion. But this factor will be all over the map with different speaker/am... | |
| do burnt CD copys sound as good as originals? As it happens a Marantz Pro (model 510 I believe?) was the dual-well machine I referred to in my post of 1/7. Not that it made 'bad' copies by any means, just not as good (digital or analog) as the HHB unit I ultimately bought at the time (meaning... |