zaikesman
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| Levinson 20.5 monos - Time for a Refurb? Herman: Hey, I need to get two vintage tubed guitar amps serviced for new filter caps (at minimum) right now. But I will say that most of the original caps in each of these lasted about twice Unsound's 20 years.Porziob: The useless comments from y... | |
| Looking for floorstanders in the 7-8K range? Your descriptions jibe with my own experiences listening to Thiels (I own 2.2's) and also the Sig's, the one pair of Legacys I've heard. The Sig's had an appealing physicality and warmth I don't get from my speakers, but ultimately they seemed to ... | |
| "Audiogon" Music Reviews at last Congrats Ben on your site. Although I really don't listen to anything you guys seem to focus on (I began to drop out of the new rock music sweepstakes around the time MTV and the CD became ascendent, so I live almost exclusively in the distant pas... | |
| Analog vs. CDP: A fair comparison? Maineiac: After that last post, I will now regard everything you say as complete fiction ;^) | |
| VTL MB-450 "Generations" "I checked with VTL today and they never put InfiniCaps in the stnadard MB-450's. They only do it as a special mod. The standard is the MIT MultiCaps."That sounds right, however, I believe if you go back far enough, even the MultiCaps were an opti... | |
| Looking for floorstanders in the 7-8K range? Congrats on the speaker purchase -- I assume you got these used? I have heard both the 7.2's and the Sig III's in other people's systems (the 7.2's with JC-1's), but I'm wondering if you'd care to contrast for us the sound you're getting in the sa... | |
| 6550 tube vs KT88 "What are the EXACT characterists of a 6550, 88, 90?"Wrong question. I have tried a few brands of new production 6550's and KT88's in my VTL's, and each kind sounded different. As anybody with a little tube rolling experience can tell you, there i... | |
| McCormack Advanced Rectifer Circuitry Where can I read about this upgrade, as you say you've done? Do you mean in the AG forums? Thanks | |
| VTL MB-450 "Generations" Hi Bruce: You've done more on your own with your old tube guitar amps than I've done myself with mine. The VTL circuit board seems pretty spacious and easy to access as far as modern hi-fi tube amps go. This is a job that I personally want to enli... | |
| VTL MB-450 "Generations" I agree that the new faceplate design, assuming it's similar to the new ST-150S, certainly looks nice with the glass and curved lines, but personally I wouldn't trade the utilitarian handles of the old faceplate -- these amps are heavy. What I did... | |
| Review: Einstein The Tube Linestage Tube preamp One little sidenote: I'm sure that, as you report, this unit runs hotter than many. But it's probably more because of the sheer number of 6922 tubes, not that they're biased in class-A per se. Anyone please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as ... | |
| VTL MB-450 "Generations" I believe the first significant upgrade was the "Signature" version output transformers (although I'm not completely sure this basic amp actually went by the "450" designation and used 6550C's before those transformers were incorporated). In any c... | |
| McCormack Advanced Rectifer Circuitry Can you provide any more info about this? Now's the first I've heard of it, and the SMc website's link for it is inactive at this time. (Same for the DNA-500 mods -- the link placeholder's been there for a while, but is still not active.) | |
| Review: Rega Planar 3 Turntable Jomoinc: If you page back through Tom's thread, you'll find I was all over that thang. However, the purpose of his "Hi-Fi" tweak and an underslung counterweight are not the same. Specifically, Tom's tweak doesn't affect vertical mass (tracking for... | |
| Can I expect to pay full retail for a new system? "It reminds me of the time an audio store in So. NH tried very, very hard to sell me a set of $10,000 speaker cables.......for speakers I had paid $2500 for, & an amp I'd paid $1000 for. Apparently, every cable they had for less than $10,000 j... |