zaikesman
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| FedEx, and HELL VTL to the rescue Danamc, sorry about your loss, but I can certainly understand the shipper's policy of not overpaying on overinsured items. If the customer wants to buy insurance at 3X the book value you can't expect the shipper to check or dispute that when the p... | |
| Back into vinyl - part 1 Been there done that. I'd rather hear about Qualityman's (sound)garden. The only "special feet" would be my bare ones, on the lawn. A lovely idyll for imagining here on a gray winter's day... (Oh I forgot Psych, you in da jungle now baby :-) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness [Prestige reissue mono LP] With Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. John Coltrane guests on the title track.Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time [Blue Note Japanese reissue stereo LP] With Jones, Wynton Kelly and ... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode I agree that running XLR into the previous gen VTL amps sounds no better, and maybe just a tad worse than running RCA, even if the preamp is fully-balanced. It has been my experience that between true-balanced components, running XLR usually does ... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode If I'm not mistaken, the knob is only used on the double-decker Reference amps, the rocker on the single-deck Signature models and below. I would assume that the rotary switch is heavier duty rated for the higher power; maybe it's a 20 amp part. B... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode Exactly right. I got over the 'unsettling'. The 'useful' remains. | |
| Review: Porter Port AC Outlet Customized Hubbell 8300 Tweak The new thread activity prompts me to post an update letting Tubemiser and Hdm know that my system's wall duplex was replaced a few months back with a Porter Port.I'm glad to report that the PP is a much more substantially-built connector, which i... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Record Hop Time! I've been remiss to not list any of the 45's spun chez Zaikesman. Here's a good chunk of tonight's mostly 50's and 60's Rhythm'n'Blues stack, in no particular order. Set the preamp to mono and let 'em rip:Willie West - Greatest Lo... | |
| Back into vinyl - part 1 I completely concur with your opinion of the potential in purpose-built listening rooms, based on my experiences in recording studios. From what I've heard, I agree that a good $20K system in a purpose-built $40K room will in the most important wa... | |
| Back into vinyl - part 1 Qualityman: Actually, TWL's system was assembled within non-extravagant budget constraints, something he makes clear if read through the body of the text. And its naturally limited HF dispersion, early LF roll-off, and single-driver suitability fo... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rushton: RE your observation about most folks never having heard a harpsichord live, it is true that my earliest exposure to the instrument was an actual harpsichord, at the house of friends of my parents when I was a little kid. Though they didn'... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sorry. The least I should do to rehabilitate the instrument's image to the lurking legions of harpsichord-haters is spell it properly. Harpsichord! AG why can't we edit these posts so much anymore?... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I've held off on 'Smile'. I have a friend, a veteran rock show-goer and sometime club booker, who went to the concert and proclaimed it the best show he'd ever been to in his life, period. That made me sorry I didn't take him up on his extra ticke... | |
| VTL Tetrode/Triode To the extent the switch may act as a bit of a de facto equalizer, that's exactly what I *don't* like about it. As I probably stated somewhere way up above, the fact that an amp can have two subtly different sounds at the flick of a switch just po... | |
| Back into vinyl - part 1 BTW, $150 is actually about the lowest I would have guessed for those footers. I suppose I'm just used to high end pricing: if dem babies was made to retrofit something like Basis tables instead of the SL-1200, by their looks they'd go for $400 ea... |