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| How important is the driver tube in a tubed amp? BTWI (Before Transistors Were Invented) we ran output tube until they glowed brightly and pulsated with the music. However, input (gain) stage tubes, and to a lesser extent the driver/inverter tubes we replaced from time to time to maintain sonic ... | |
| Newb - damaged cartridge? And furthermore...if the stylus is user-replaceable it can be removed while you are doing dangerous things like mounting the pickup in an arm.I did enjoy my Ortofon, but now I have a Shure, and I don't look back. | |
| DVD-A player that'll output 24/96 digital signal Why not just get a player with a good D/A? Good D/A's are no longer uncommon. The need for outboard D/A's is fast disapearing. | |
| Newb - damaged cartridge? This is the kind of thing that makes a user-replaceable stylus attractive. My kids did it to me. | |
| Consumer Electronics Show,8-12 Jan. 2004 Las Vegas It's worth doing once in your life. Probably not again unless you are in the industry. | |
| Questions about Toslink's Sean...May I remind you that in the digital world a little signal loss, or distortion, is no big deal. The "ones", so long as the receiver can still recognize them, don't become 0.47's. Also, any "switch" is going to have loss. Two fiber terminati... | |
| Aragon 4004 mk2 vs Adcom 555 mk2 Aball...What do you know about the Carver 1600? Its distortion specs are quite respectable, especially when measured well below the 600 watt level, which, of course, is where it will operate. I have not seen anything but good words about this amp,... | |
| Aragon 4004 mk2 vs Adcom 555 mk2 Aball and Kool139....I think that this FAQ writeup from Adcom, who uses both mosfets and bipolar output devices is a fair description.QUOTEMy amplifier seems to run hot. Is this a problem? Probably not. Most Adcom amplifiers use output devices ca... | |
| Aragon 4004 mk2 vs Adcom 555 mk2 Kool39...My observation about "way more musical" was general in nature, interpreting Johngalt47's observation.With regard to the particular Aragon amp: no I do not have experience with it. From what I see and read it appears to be similar in conce... | |
| Questions about Toslink's I consulted with our fiber optics guy, and as I suspected there are "switches": in fact there are multiplexers. The switch is implemented with a solid state variable opacity material, and is controlled by 0/+5 vdc. Just a guess but the cost would ... | |
| Aragon 4004 mk2 vs Adcom 555 mk2 "Way more musical" is a nice way of saying it has more harmonic distortion. Ok if that's what you like. | |
| Best center speakers for dialogue clarity? Dialog clarity is best with a speaker that has quite restricted frequency response, and therefore is lousy for music. For music you should have a center speaker that matches the Left and Right speakers, and use of a dialog speaker, alas too common... | |
| Quality of 70s Quad Pressings? For SQ recordings you really need a decoder, but, if you have a couple of extra speakers, hook them up in series with each other, and "bridged" across the Hot terminals of your stereo amp and put them in the back of the room. You will recover some... | |
| Rate these on order of importance: Unsound...No they don't. | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... We audiophiles regard specs as being (or should be) related to sonic characteristics. But this is not the primary purpose of specs.A product is tested and the test results are compared with specs so as to verify that the particular unit does not h... |