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| nakamichi 480 I have a 480 and I will not part with it. While IMO the 680ZX is the best NAK I own, the 480 is a tank and great for your purpose, not to mention the price you paid makes it a steal. I have owned the 700 (a Ferrari even by NAK standards), 550, and... | |
| Power Cord suggestions Try a Oyaide Tunami GPX from Audio Excellence AZ. Just under $400 and it made a big differnece on my DAC. Also, a bit higher, comsidering they just raised their prices, but if you like the Virtual Dynamics cabls, the Nite and Master series also wo... | |
| DK Design VS-1 Reference MK3 Noise Issue I had a similar issue with the volume control on my tube preamp, a Joule Electra. From about 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock each move up in volume resulted in a static noise being emmitted from the speaker. My preamp had two volume pots and only the righ... | |
| CDP/Preamp/Amp In my system I opted to put a good shielded cable on my DAC. I chose the Oyaide Tunami GPX which I purchased from Audio Excelence AZ ($395 including cable cooking and double cryo). You might be able to by one a little cheaper from Take 5 Audio. Th... | |
| Anyone into quality vintage direct drive? What would the disadvantages of a direct drive table be. I am selling my belt drive rig to upgrade to a new rig and during the down time thought about getting a vintage table to play with. I have seen some nice direct drive tables for excellent pr... | |
| JADE AUDIO Cables I just ordered a Vermeil from JD and he is going to cook it for 10 days prior to shipping it to me. Hopefully that will alleviate some of the burn in time. I'll post my impressions as well when I have had a chance to listen to it. | |
| How to thwart cats Funny, my cats never mess with my gear and I never had a problem with them clawing at my speaker cloth.On the other hand, I was at Dusty Vawter's house once doing an audition of his gear and watched his cat actually climb his speakers on a few occ... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? I'm impressed with the Butler amps. A nice affordable (used) hybrid OTL design. They'll provide some warmth, without sacrificing too much in the process. | |
| Tube amp with SS like bass Of the ones you mentioned the Butler would be my pick. I heard it at RMAF and thought the bass was very good. It is a hybrid design and OTL, no output transformers. That being said I would generally agree with the others who indicated you will hav... | |
| Sacrilege Going from Tubes back to Solid State The Moscode HR401 sounded very nice at RMAF. The build quality is top notch. I'm told you can swap tubes on the fly. A bit north of your budget, but George Kaye offers a trial period on it. I'm seriously considering checking one out. | |
| VD Revelation Speaker cables - Ozzy, in my system the Master did not work that well on my amp. I did use it on my RSA Haley power conditioner and liked the results better. However, I just put a Oyaide Tunami GPX power cord on that power conditioner as an experiment and thought ... | |
| Sacrilege Going from Tubes back to Solid State This may or not be helpful. When I decided to move away from a tube amp I decided to try the TRL D-225. It is listed at 225 watts but tests out closer to 275 watts. It is $4k new. They can make a monoblock version, but that may be over your budget... | |
| VD Revelation Speaker cables - I found the Virtual Dynamics powercords work best on digital sources. This was confirmed this weekend at RMAF as Rick said the biggest impact would be on the digital (transport, CDP, or DAC) source, preamp, and amp in that order. I like the Nite I... | |
| Thinking of modding my 834p, or should I move on? Tfkaudio - you can get a Lundahl step up transformer from K&K Audio. Kevin Carter will configure it and assemble it for you if you like. The process of swappping resistors is one that does not require soldering as Kevin provided pin holes on t... | |
| Power cord suggestions for CDP and tube amp Irish65, thanks for the heads up. The combination of those two vendors will make for a very interesting room. If you like, email me offline, maybe I can arrange to give you a real time or near real time update. Hopefully that will soften the blow ... |