bdgregory
Responses from bdgregory
| value question They have them in a bin at one of my local Thrift Stores - $1 each. | |
| Minimus 7 I have my set I bought in the 70's. I mod'd the crossovers a couple years ago - pretty hard to beat! | |
| HK 3490 receiver with no sound? I would say it was either the jumpers were misplaced, or he had the speaker selector switches turned off. There's no reason any of the other stuff (ie power strip, sub, etc) would make a difference. | |
| McCormack DNA-1 runs hot I've had amps run even hotter than 100F (eg ~120F or more for an Ayre V3). Ayre technical support told me "heat is good" | |
| Need an affordable home theater system ? hilarious!! | |
| Yaqin Integrated amp and tube rolling?? I had the MC-10L which used EL34's and 6N1 tubes. It appears yours uses 12AT7 which is probably good given you have a near unlimited opportunity for subs. I would search archives for 12AT7 subs for the pre tubes.As for the EL34's My Yaquin came wi... | |
| Steve Hackett's The Shrouded Horizon, 2011's best. Genesis was over for me when he left the group. I'm glad he did so we got all those great records from him. agreed!. | |
| Yaqin Integrated amp and tube rolling?? which model? | |
| Looking for way to get good audio from netflix Roku has excellent sound quality. It has both optical digital out as well as HDMI - I can't say which yields the better sound quality - try both and you decide. Roku also has Pandora. | |
| Biasing & tube rolling yes, unless your amp is cathode biased, or has a automatic bias scheme that doesn't require or permit adjustment. | |
| guitar solos where less is more Dracule1, thank you, I listened to them all, and enjoyed them all. I ACTUALLY am open to all styles. . . . enjoyed the Ted Greene piece too. | |
| First Rebecca Pidgeon Album? New York Girl's Club is also quite good. | |
| guitar solos where less is more I've always liked Andy Latimer (Camel - check out "Ice"), and Mark Knopfler (Solo work - check out "Our Shangri-La") for this reason. For that matter David Gilmour is also a less is more soloist. | |
| Best Live Album Ever... DiMeola, McGlaughlin, De Lucia "Friday Night in San Francisco"King Crimson "The Nightwatch" | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly If you follow vintage tube amp listings on ebay, Bob Carver shows up on occasion with hand built tube amp listings. Some of them have been fairly simple offerings but with unique circuit designs which he describes in detail. Others much more compl... |