midareff1
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| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Dual 1219 in the 70's with a Shure V15 mk3 ... went to CD about 1980? and never looked back. | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. Easy solution although not bargain priced. I use a Magnum Dynalab ST-2 half wave (whip) mast designed for outdoor use in my listening room.. in the corner mounted so the tip reaches a nine foot ceiling. From there the signal goes to a Magnum Dynal... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? Main system.. Acoustat 1100’s w/modified base modules. .. since roughly 1993 As far as this system is concerned I’ve had stuff in house to demo against existing components quite a few times. Pre, amps, tuner and speakers remain the same. CD player... | |
| whats the very best sounding cables for realistic money After using the cable services to demo many different speaker and ic cables it became apparent that Straightwire Maestro was the best performing speaker and ic in my system. I think cables are very system specific. | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Still use a pair of Sumo Andromeda II A’s driving a pair of like vintage Acoustat 1100’s via a like vintage Audio Research LS 2B MKII. Every time I bring in something new to test drive against what I have the newbie gets smoked and sent back. Ha... | |
| Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money? A Sony XA5400ES CD/SACD player I bought as a close out direct from Sony with a 2 year extended warranty for $400. Was $1600 new and a raved Stereophile component. | |
| My Audio Research experience Don't have any experience with ARC power amps but have been using an ARC LS2 MKII B remote preamp for getting close to 30 years. I audition stuff from time to time but it beats back all pretenders to the crown including recently an LS17-SE and an... | |
| Tweaks for a new ARC preamp? Any of you ever try Pearl Metal Tube coolers? Anyone ever try keeping a barrier of sheet copper between their CD/SACD and pre? This is all cheap stuff you can hear... also dive shop.. 2, 3 and 5 pound belt weights. Paint black and put some f... | |
| Tweaks for a new ARC preamp? Thanks guys...Onhighwy61..... thanks for your response. I spent quite a bit of time.. probably years, rolling speaker cables, rolling interconnects, rolling tube(s) to get to where I am now. Now, having said that, some cable prices simply strik... | |
| Tweaks for a new ARC preamp? I have not listened to it in my room but have read many reviews. The only store in town with PrimaLuna doesn't allow in home auditions so that's same same, if I was interested in them. I appreciate your thoughts but don't understand how it relate... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Probably the Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" and some Ben Webster classical jazz. | |
| Recommnedations for moderately price balanced IC's, and adaptors to an RCA end I'd recommend you search eBay for used balanced IC's of the brand you REALLY want. Setting an eBay search will get you emails when something comes up. A few months ago I got an email about a single 18 foot XLR cable from the brand I wanted. $168 ... | |
| Bi-amping Rules I bi-amp with two identical amps, and I mean identical. Despite being about 25 years old they are 5 numbers apart (serial number) built on the same day, same shift, same parts bins. One amp runs the left speaker and one the right. The left chan... | |
| Your single favorite component and on second thought I have lots of favorite components. I really like my modded Acoustat 1100 speakers and the two Sumo Andromeda IIA's that drive them bi-wired on custom cable. Not to miss the crowd is a Radio X modified Sansui tuner and Magnu... | |
| Your single favorite component It is a 1950's Valvo Cca 6922 Pinched Waist I acquired a couple of years ago. It is in a (now antique) Audio Research LS2B MKII remote preamp. Has long ago been a tube roller (roll em in and roll em out) to get to Grey Plate Cca 6922 Siemens &am... |