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| Cool Amp Stands - what to get at a good price? Sound Anchor stands look great and are very reasonably priced compaired to others.They are made about 30 miles from where I live and the owner would probably work me a good deal as I have done buisness twice with him in the past.If you would like,... | |
| Analog Front End for 5000 Sota Star,ET 2.5 and Benz Ruby 2.Check the Sota website At Sotaturntables.com.A refurbished Star should run around 2600.A used ET on this site about 950.00 and the cart.1000-1300 and you have a front end that will kick butt.Good luck | |
| Disks for protecting wood floors from spike damage Have some brass disks that I no longer use that you can have really cheap.I believe they are audio point products.If you want to email me,we can talk. | |
| Best turntable for Eminent Technology arm I've used the ET on the SOTA Star and now the Millenia for many years and never had any trouble.My friend also used one with his VPI TNT.They both work very well. | |
| Best Power Cord The Whale is hard to beat for the money.Agree with Ejlif on the AZ.Quite an amazing PC.Good luck. | |
| What tubes to use for Audio Research SP-9 MkIII? I second the AR tubes having owned the SP-9 and they do sound their best with tube dampers. | |
| CLEAN RECORDS WITH WHAT????? This recipe came out of the Absolute Sound about nine years ago and has served me well since:One gallon of pure distilled water,one pint 97% alcohol,10 drops of Kodak photo-flow and 10 drops of windex.This will run you about a dollar per gallon.Al... | |
| Sota Sapphire Platter Removal Removing the platter is done by backing out the three large bolts on the underside but make sure the two set screws are fully tightened or you could damage the bearing.This can easily be done by placing the table between two chairs and working tha... | |
| ARC...D-90B or D-115MKII? - Driving Maggie 1.6s I've owned both amps you are considering and if I had my choice,I'de go with the 115.More of everything the 90b does.Just make sure the output tubes are in decent shape as they are 100 a pair to replace from ARC.Please feel free to contact me if y... | |
| Can POWER CORDS really make that big a difference? They indeed make an audible difference but to what degree and price you pay,that is the question.There are alot of choices out there and bottom line is what sounds best with what ya got.Common knowledge aside,value and performance be the winning c... | |
| Amp for Vandersteen 3Asig. One thing about Vandersteen speakers is that they love tubes.Just ask R.V. himself.I've owned 2C's and 3A's and also the D115 mk2 and found them to be quite musical however something was still missing until the VT100 mk3 entered the picture.Everyt... | |
| Tubes in Blue Normal for some tubes to do this.What I can gather from some tube experts is it has to do with slow leakage of vacume gasses.Go figure. | |
| What recomendation would you give me ........ Rwd, You are using the same line stage and amp as me and I currently have a 3 meter pair of diamond with really excellent results.Am looking to upgrade but haven't found anything that compairs for the money.Want to try the Zen silver or maybe Pgs ... | |
| Acoustic Zen cables with vinyl front-end Are you using the silver or matrix? The silver ref made quite an improvement over the AQ diamond and lapis in both table to phono and phono to line stage.Haven't tried to amp yet as I need a 3 meter run.Am considering the AQ anaconda in that area ... | |
| Better cable substitue's for my system, for silver ic cables You may want to try A.Q. Anaconda.They are very neutral and detailed.Was using diamond between phono and line but this new cable line is so much beter.Good luck and please feel free to e-mail me if you have any concerns. |