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| Is the Cary SLP-05 still relavant? Sure it is, but if a product has not been reviewed in "x" years it is automatically dropped from the list, along with a lot of other excellent products. | |
| Does it make sense to use 6k$ Nos tube with 5K$ tube amplifier? If you need to finance the WE300B NOS purchase, then no. If the cost is a drop in the bucket, go for it. One man's $600 purchase is another man's $6,000. | |
| Help with a suggestion for using audio equipment in extremely humid climate conditions Anything that can be stored in a cabinet to protect it from the salt environment. Look at Class D amplifiers. Look at an audio streamer or any other source that has no moving parts. | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment When you change the vertical position of a pivot, you are in effect changing the horizontal distance between the stylus/record and pivot point of a fixed length tonearm, which in turn changes the balance. As we reduce the distance between stylus/... | |
| Disconnect or power off the circuit breaker The only time I disconnect my system from the AC is during lightening storms. I don't notice any improvement after reconnecting. | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment VTF is maximized when the stylus/record interface and tonearm bearing are horizontally inline with one another. Any deviation from this reference will reduce VTF. Although the VTA will affect VTF, it is not used to set VTF, that's the job of the ... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please It's too bad that the previous thread is now locked as it contained a lot of insightful and useful information. I personally get more from a discussion than I do from a lecture. | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? Now my question is...why? I would say 98% of buyers of this amp do not know to reverse the cable connections That is because they do not read the manual. | |
| Buying Audio in EUR and bringing it to the US for resale Yes it will affect resale value if the voltage is not country specific. Also, some US distributors will not honor warranties or in some cases, refuse to service gray market products. | |
| Levinson 26S question Unless your streamer and tape player only have balanced/XLR outputs, I would look for a regular ML26 or ML26S with single ended RCA inputs. (earlier ML26 versions had camac connections, but you can get rca/camac adapters) | |
| Levinson 26S question There are only two models, the ML26 and ML26S. The "S" version has premium parts and a teflon circuit board. Each model can be ordered in three different configurations; regular line level camac connectors, balanced and phono. The three configu... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... Manley | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? I was not trying to be a snob by saying elite! I was afraid high end would get 4 figure costing subs. I don’t want cheap just to have a sub or two. Good subs start at $1,000 and up .Elite subs cost a multiple of $K | |
| Get your First Watt SIT-3 now? Amplifiers are typically manufactured in "batches", therefore, your amp could be one from the last production run/batch | |
| Is there a standard for number of LP's per inch? No, there is not standard "records per inch" calculation due to too many variables. Just take some average records and measure how many make up an inch. |