darkmoebius
Responses from darkmoebius
| Affordable anti-jitter device Monarchy Audio DIP is a value buy that outperforms more expensive alternatives. They sell here used in the $150-200 range. | |
| Request to hear Zu speakers 213cobra,When is the LA HE Show? | |
| Request to hear Zu speakers Hey 213Cobra/Phil,I'll take you up on your offer!! I'm in San Pedro(end of Harbor Fwy) and have a couple of nice amps to bring along if you want to try something new. Check out my system here and see if there's anything of interest.Just about any ... | |
| any Sopranophiles here? Just fially got HBO when I switched over to digital cable in Nov/Dec last year. Prior to that, I'd only seen a couple of scattered episodes at friends houses which left me mildly impressed.Now that I have been able to follow the arc of the storyli... | |
| Request to hear Zu speakers Well, I'd love to toss my hat in for a Los Angeles/Southern California listening session if someone would be generous enough to offer.I heard the Druids at the VTV Show a few months ago, but the room colorations were making it close to impossible ... | |
| Small quality HiFi subs reaching 22Hz What is your idea of "small"?There are only a few of ways to recreate real low frequencies - high cabinet volume, high cone excursion, and gobbs of power.Accurate "Low 20's" is going to to take a lot of all three. I would be very, very, leery of a... | |
| Analog One MkII vs MKIII? Same here, I traded several emails with him last year and he was always extremely prompt in replying. | |
| Toughest hombre west of the Pecos? Robert Mitchum and/or Burt LancasterDefinetly tubes 'cause their "Old Style". | |
| What is your most beautiful component? My cherry wood Cain & Cain IM-Ben's(pic) w/ matching Bailey subs & amp stands.There are times when sunlight streams through that window hitting them, that the cherry grain looks like flowing pearlescent liquid. Never ceases to take my brat... | |
| Best sounding,reliable, tube amp below $700 used Thanks Autre, that helps a lot.I have owned both Adcom and Rotel(RC-990/RB-980BX) pre/power combos. As great a value as both are, they can be hard, edgey, and dry as all getout. Moving to tubes will be a revelation. I'd suggest selling your Adcom ... | |
| Balanced power compatabilty census I had a feeling I'd get called on that this morning, Zaikesman, and I'm glad you did. My comment does not apply to any consumer balanced power products(I assume), only people like myself who bought commercial/industrial isolation transformers and ... | |
| Best sounding,reliable, tube amp below $700 used What type of speakers will the amp(s) be driving and what are their specs?And what some tube amps that you've heard and liked along with others that you didn't? | |
| Balanced power compatabilty census The power transformers on my Welborne DRD 300B monoblocks would audibly "buzz" when I plugged the amps into 2.4kVA Topaz Ultra-Isolator trannis wired in balanced config. It was actually so scary that I would have to unplug them after only 5 second... | |
| Best lines in a song "I Shot my mouth off and he showed me waht that hole was for"The Prenders "Tattooed Love Boys":I ran twenty doorsAround the house, black and blueBetween love boysTore my knees up getting tattooedCause I needed, to find out what the thing was forBe... | |
| shipping cd players I think that the "Transit screws" are used to lock the moving armiture that the laser lens traverses above he cd into place so that it doesn't get jarred out of alignment. This prevents the laser from reading across tracks instead of along the tra... |