zaikesman
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| Can I expect to pay full retail for a new system? Mitch4T and Jea48: Glad you asked and answered that question. The advice given above to carry on your person and pay potentially tens of thousands of $$$ in cash money is ridiculous and unwise. That simply isn't done in any legit business with leg... | |
| Connecing Balanced and Unbalanced at the same time I don't know about your amp specifically, but on most that have both single-ended and balanced inputs, the "switch" between them is not actually an input selector in the preamp sense, but is only there to prevent hum which could otherwise be induc... | |
| AC captive cords??? Eldee: Applying money directly to the system, I love it! Cuts out so many tedious intermediate steps. Makes liquidity of the other kind easy too, but if it got out of hand it could put Audiogon out of business. Obviously higher denominations will ... | |
| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Tea and sympathy for Ghostrider45 -- no good deed goes unpunished, does it? : ( | |
| New VTL Stereo Amp? Have a smooth move! | |
| New VTL Stereo Amp? Yep, although for the moment I'm evaluating a recently-acquired McCormack DNA-500 which exceeds them in several areas. Your description of the VTL vs. CJ (tube) sound is actually very similar to my take in a comparo I did a few years ago between m... | |
| The Search "Do you feel like you are on a merry-go-round?"No, and I don't plan to, which is why I'll say bye to this unpromising tro...I mean thread, before it begins. | |
| Forums and Manufacturers: Are they here to help? On this subject you have to take the useful with the self-interested to some degree. On balance, I'd rather have most of the manufacturers who've contributed here provide their knowledge and insights, as long as they identify themselves and 'keep ... | |
| New VTL Stereo Amp? Hey Steve, I see you upgraded your M-L's -- not too surprised they like the added power and control.The new sophisticated look is certainly sexier, though I don't think as distinctive. But personally I'd rather have those very useful handles and a... | |
| Any Audiophile recording of The Planets? Mre2007: I don't buy new classical releases on CD, just some of the vintage vinyl that I find. As I said, I'm not primarily a classical listener or knowledgeable in the field, and combined with the amount of classical material I inherited from my ... | |
| Can tube preamps be as 'detailed' sounding as ss? Tvad: Because the question and the discussion may please the questioner and the discussers. Chatting about audio is a wholly different activity than listening to it, enjoyable for different reasons. | |
| Review: Aerial 20 T .2 Speaker Thanks for the nice article, makes me wish I could experience what you're hearing :-) Only out of curiousity, how tolerant are these speakers IYO to listening off-axis, particularly in the top octave when standing up? | |
| Taking audio too seriously? Rocks and clocks are serious? | |
| Point Source or Line Source? Impossible to answer definitively in my opinion, even if we write a virtual book here -- there are plenty of potential tradeoffs to each in the real world. Frequently this question also entails choosing between mono-polar vs. bi-polar vs. di-polar... | |
| Analog vs. CDP: A fair comparison? E: I think choice of program material also has something to do with this -- if I listened primarily to classical, where noise and time limits can be more intrusive, I'd probably find more reasons to enjoy digital. Personally, I think CD and LP can... |