honest1
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| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? Pass Aleph. Or new first watt aleph series, perhaps. If you read between the lines of Pass' web site, they indicate the aleph series was warmer sounding than the X series, which is the reason for introducing the .5 series. I've heard that the Alep... | |
| Alcohol + Vinyl = Disaster... Cw, you've started a story, now you must finish it. Inquiring minds want to know. | |
| Any suggestions for good obscure music? Dengue Fever, Escape from Dragon House. It's one of the oddest discs I have. It is a Cambodian woman singing with an american pop band. The band sounds very retro-60s, kind of like what you might have heard in a 60s spy movie. The singer sounds a ... | |
| Please explain amplifier output impedance I agree with most of what Newbee said. Output impedance and speaker impedance together give the damping factor of the system, which is an indication of hte amp's ability to control the speaker. The higher the speaker impedance is over the amplifie... | |
| Has anyone heard of these speaker? I heard a pair of Tetra speakers ina fellow audiogoner's house once (he was showing sophia tube products), and they were very nice sounding. They were canadian, and they have a website someplace. You should be able to google itup. | |
| Stupid question about power cables ... Jwpstayman - Why is it beneficial to leave the ground connector detached at both ends? I would think that if the ground is connected at one end, it just goes along for the ride, but doesn't hurt anything. Have you any experience with doing this, o... | |
| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading I could take a picture. Should I email it to you, or post it somewhere? | |
| Best object in your listening room. An 1867 (or 1869 - hard to read)French marble tambour clock. | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 Be careful replacing the Virgo IIs. From what I remember of hearing them in shops when they were new (and I oculdn't afford them), they were one of the best speakers I've ever heard. I wouldn't sell them until I lived with their intended replaceme... | |
| What effect does cartridge loading have on sound? Great ideas - If I tilt the arm up, it allows the cartridge to pivot side to side on its little arm. Putting a small jeweller's screwdriver within 1/4" of the cartridge causes it to swing toward the screwdriver. Moving the screwdriver away lets th... | |
| What effect does cartridge loading have on sound? Thanks for your response. It's definitely not wood,it's a solid shiny black color, metal or plastic. The store that sold it to me got it on trade form the person they sold it to years ago, so I wouldn't completely dismiss the notion that it's a MC... | |
| Thoughts on adding a Super tweeter . Tvad - You are right of course, I forgot about the high-res media. Cj - Your experience is what I think is supposed to happen w/supertweeters. The ultrasonic frequencies they reproduce aren't supposed to be heard by themselves, but by their intera... | |
| Thoughts on adding a Super tweeter . I agree with the Tennis man on the overabundance of upper mid / lower treble energy. I base this assertion on my experience at CES / THE this year. Room after room had this characteristic. Even my own system has it to a degree, which annoyed me un... | |
| ESOTERIC, WADIA -- How do they really sound? Buy and sell used on A-gon. While it may be psooible to break even or come out ahead, allow a couple hundred dollars loss on each transaction, and buy and sell until you find what you like. Even at a couple hundred dollars a transaction, you will ... | |
| Wadia 302 Direct to amp or via pre-amp Neither o fthe Wadias I have owned have had a 100 volume setting - just 99, so I can't comment on Aoliviero's experience. In my systemthere isn't a significant difference between 98 and 99, or any close volume settings. If you have a 100, though, ... |