jameswei
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| What Power amp SS would you recommend........ The Bryston 7B ST's do a good job on the low end. They are also Class A rated in Stereophile (for what it's worth), and they're reasonably priced. | |
| Talk About Static Cling... Make sure your drive belt isn't rubbing against anything. | |
| What IC's works best with ML390s cd player? Glad to hear you pulled the trigger on the 390s. I've been pleased with Cardas Golden Cross direct to my Aleph 3. The Golden Cross seems very quiet, the background and small silences are deep black. For me, this heightens the color and dynamic cha... | |
| good CD player with variable output? The Mark Levinson 39 and its successor the 390s are fine players with analog volume controls. The 390s is more dynamic and colorful, but obviously costs more than a used 39. I recommend avoiding players with digital volume controls because they di... | |
| Vintage turntable running fast, any ideas? Could it be that one of your parts is a wrong-size replacement that got put in sometime a long time ago? It sounds like the pulley could be a too-big replacement. Or, the belt (which would have been the first thing to wear out and be replaced) cou... | |
| The final solution to WAF problems / issues. I saw these at the NY show. If they don't sell out to the guys with WAF problems, at least they should appeal to the fetishists. They didn't sound half bad either. | |
| Shielding unshield speakers: Possible? You can cover the speakers in mu-metal, a soft metal that shields against magnetic fields. The more completely the speaker is wrapped, the better, since magnetic fields tend to leak around edges. The thickness of your sheet depends on how strong t... | |
| Tonearm-Preamp Grounding Problems-HELP From your comments, it seems like you've tried swapping out pretty much everything. Could it be environmental? For example, people who live close to high tension electric power transmission lines commonly have voltages built up in their metallic p... | |
| Selection of cd player under 5000 used for... OK. Suggest you wait for a used 390s. | |
| How can Audio shows be improved? All rooms should play show-goers' song requests. Many serious listeners bring their own software. Some rooms just played demos of their own software choices, of course to best show off their systems. Attendees have their own software which they kn... | |
| hum with VPI Jr The early VPI speed controllers were not well shielded and commonly would cause hum if placed too close to phono preamps or the table itself. The SDS is OK. If you have a speed controller that is a pre-SDS VPI product, try to move it far away from... | |
| Levinson 39 vs. Cary 306/200 The 39 is a good player that can be upgraded to the 390s which is a very good player. I haven't compared these against the Cary. | |
| Shield Amp from preamp? suggestions? There is something called mu-metal, which is used in shielding magnetic fields and should also work against electrical fields. You can probably find sellers if you perform an internet search. For full effect, you may want to partially wrap one of ... | |
| Best sound at Stereophile show. Tekunda,The Harvey/Martin Logan room featured a 5.1 channel setup with what I am guessing on memory to have been Odyssey mains in front plus a Theater center channel and Aeon or Scenario surrounds. I think the sub was a ML Descent. These were driv... | |
| Best sound at Stereophile show. My 5 favorites were Gamut/Pipedreams, Tenor/Pipedreams, Wilson/VTL, Joseph/Manley (where was the air conditioning?), and Harvey/Martin Logan, in that order. I also heard Hugh Masekela's Coal Train (on the Hope album) used twice for demo, in Gamut/... |