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| Quack System Upgrades Funny that this subject comes up from time to time. Having an advanced engineering degree, many of these tweaks fail the smell test, wreak of alchemy, and cause my internal BS meter to peg and flash wildly. Many of them seem designed to separate... | |
| GARY BEDINI and JOHN BEDINI have passed on 11-6-16 Wow, very unusual. I once had a Bedini BA-803 power amp, a monster. Sad to hear of their passing. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Ralph, Erik, thank you for the detailed explanation of how electrostatic speakers work with different types of amps. A nice education. | |
| Favorite guitar players not named...... I would add Jim Stafford to the list.Also recently saw a perhaps lesser-known but hugely talented touring guitarist named Ed Berghoff in a backyard venue. He could play everything from Hendrix to Lindsay Buckingham. Very impressed. Check him ou... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Yes, I also agree with atmasphere as I once had some Wilson Sophia speakers, 4 ohms nominal impedance, and a pair of Fourier Panthere OTL amps whose output impedance was around an ohm or so. Adding a pair of autoformers made a huge difference in ... | |
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? Heard them several times at the Newport Beach Audio Show.The smaller 116s in a small room were nothing remarkable.The 101s, however, are perhaps the best-sounding speaker I have ever heard by a long shot. They were set up in a double hotel room, ... | |
| Tube for a Noob ??? I agree with the others that if you are not committed to vinyl, I would stick with either CD's or digital downloads and get some tubes in there somewhere. To make vinyl really effective you need a decent turntable/arm/cartridge combination, vibra... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? Another rationale for using a tubed preamp is that tubes work better than solid-state in amplifying voltages since tubes work at hundreds of volts while SS works at tens of volts. Solid-state work better at amplifying current since they have much... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I use HFC Ultimate Reference cables from my turntable to my phono stage since my turntable has DIN-to-RCA connectors and my Steelhead phono stage has RCA inputs. Rick Schultz told me early on that all of the cables are of identical build (at any ... | |
| Dark Side of the Moon - Is MFSL really all that? Never liked the MFSL versions, particularly the UHQR. Too compressed, thin, and lightweight. I like the original UK and German pressings. I have also tried a number of reissues and don't like them either.Found this in Wikipedia: An obi (帯?) is... | |
| Will changing gain affect frequency response? In addition to how changing the gain of a preamp can change sound due to nonlinearity of the gain control, another thing to consider is where you achieve the gain. For instance, I can change the gain on my phono preamp as well as on my main pream... | |
| LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out I saw on Audioasylum Vinyl Asylum that someone else noticed this problem. Surprising that WB never found it. Since the recording was in 1990 at the end of the vinyl heyday, I seriously doubt that more than one mastering or pressing was done of t... | |
| LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out As an update on this Bob James LP, I bought a sealed copy and it displays the exact same phenomenon of the missing left channel on the first two songs on side 2 and fading in and out on the third cut before correcting for the rest of the LP side. ... | |
| Looking to buy floor standing speakers in $1000 per speaker range. A few years ago I changed from expensive multi-way speakers to single-driver speakers in inexpensive cabinets and am amazed at how long it took me to find these things. I bought a pair of 8" alnico drivers on commonsenseaudio.com (Audio Nirvana) ... | |
| Top five live Rock And Roll Albums I am generally not a fan of live rock and roll albums but would go with Supertramp's Paris. |