dbarger
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| Buying a used cartridge...tell us your tale. About 15 years ago, I was traveling for business to Denver and went into an audio store there. Can't remember the name of the place, but they had four or five lightly used very high-end cartridges from one of the audio designers in the area, who w... | |
| TIDAL Lossless Streaming Service Yes, the Aries is the type of device I am looking for. Are there any other similar devices out there? Less expensive would be great. | |
| TIDAL Lossless Streaming Service Are there any streamers that have an app for Tidal yet? I have been looking and cannot find any. I am using Sonos righ now, and satisfied with it, but would like to add a Tidal option without having to fire up my Mac. Preferably just a streamer wi... | |
| TIDAL Lossless Streaming Service I was excited about Tidal, and signed up on the first day. Since there is no ap yet for Sonos, I was streaming it from my Mac Mini music server into my Metrum Hex. I was disappointed in the sound quality, even compared to Spotify and Beats, both o... | |
| Audio Research Reference 250 capacitor issue "Dull and lifeless" sounds like a tube issue, not caps. | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Yes Almarg, that was what I was trying to clarify in my post. Most people don't consider the preamp to be the "source".Atmasphere, I have had the same conversation with Kalvin. He told me also that the preamp must be balanced with the Ref150. He d... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Atmasphere mentioned using only a balanced source. This I assume is only referring to the preamp. It is very possible to use single-ended sources into a balanced ARC preamp, going into a Ref150. They work great, it is only the preamp which needs t... | |
| Metrum Hex vs Metrum Octave I did own an Octave for about 10 months before getting a Hex. Both are really great DAC's, imo. I have owned an ARC Dac7 and 8, and Naim Dac, and it would be really tough to say anything was better than the Hex. I went from the other Dac's to the ... | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? Reading that back, it sounds a bit harsh. Sorry.This is supposed to be fun. | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? What bugs me about this thread is all the armchair quarterbacking about circuit design by non-engineers. These designs are all different. BAT does not design like ARC. Any electrical engineers with expertise on tube circuitry weighed in on these i... | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? Joman, why do you say it is a persistent problem? It is not. If it were, they would fuse it and not have the issue. Can you imagine the issues they would have with the ref610 and 750's if these were recurring problems?This is the problem with the ... | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? I guess I would ask the OP if the blown tube was an ARC tube, or from a different seller. ARC stands by their tubes and offers a warranty for a time period to include repairs. I have owned five different ARC tube amps, VT100mk2 through my current ... | |
| New KT150 tubes? Are there any integrated amps out that come with KT150's? | |
| McIntosh MC402 I have owned two 402's. After I sold the first one, I missed it, and bought another. So I obviously liked it quite a bit. But compared to the ARC Ref110 I also owned at the time, the 402 sounded leaner, and had less bass. It also felt less powerfu... | |
| Ayre VX-5 Diamond amp It sounds like your VX-5 was not burned in all the way. I have a VX-5 and it is truly an excellent amp. I also have an audio research ref 150 and it competes very well with that amp, although ultimately I do prefer the audio research amp. But it s... |