marakanetz
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| Best of Hearing Aids for deaf Audiophiles? Huh??? Loosing hearing sucks:-(I just realy wonder why high-end manufacturers still didn't come up with high-def hearing aids?:-)On the other hand bigger amp and bigger speakers and certainly cooperative wife during listening sessions:-) | |
| What does a pre out do? There are different kinds of pre outs:One you use with jumper to the poweramp input(of the integrated amp) disconnects the poweramp section.and another kind that will not disconnect the poweramp section and could be used together with different ma... | |
| iPod: Questions and Options iPod car interface realy sucks!Try to wire directly or you may be very dissapointed in car iPod performance.I use it with cassette adapter... | |
| krell kav 300il - what are your thoughts? Heard it in my setup very recently a few days ago.We did A/B with Sunfire Symphonic Reference Stereo Stack.My thumbs up was all the way towards Symphonic Reference combo(i.e. separates). I would doubt that this issue is very speaker match specific... | |
| Active studio monitors. Nobody has them. Why? example of misconception:Genelecs response curve designed for mastering, not for musical enjoymentactive monitor's curve can be adjusted in most cases.some of active studio monitors may perfectly suit the audiophile demands on the wise budget. | |
| bridging tube amps for mono PP stereo tube amp is possible to turn onto a full-function mono amplifier by connecting further in-parallel push and pull tubes between the channels and usning only one output transformer. That's how it's done in BAT tube amps. Just make shure th... | |
| Why even bother? The reason I have a tape player is that I have on tapes something that I don't on CD or vinyl. Otherwise niether tape player or tuner is realy serious for an audiophile... and it's true. | |
| Tuff decision, need help Since I realy didn't like any "part" of sound of PSB Golds(BTW not any better than Silver) i.e. mids, highs and bottom and pretty much enjoyed 801's except the price(realy killing!), I would say no matter how old 801's, they're substantially bette... | |
| Some CD's I just Ordered...Any Thoughts? I've never had any CD that "looked very much that I'd enjoy it":-) | |
| What's Wrong With My Cartridge/Setup? Brian, Stepping through your comments and experiments made so far, it seems that AE isn't functioning well and the load resistance should NOT change when you turn it on.My first scientific guess is that the output of your phono is getting short so... | |
| Funniest sales pitch A joke:Two friends meet each other asking asking how things going well/bad...One of them sais:--Can you imagine I've got an Elephant for $10k! It's a beautiful animal. It waters my flowers and garden, plays with my children and dog and generousely... | |
| What's Wrong With My Cartridge/Setup? Brian,Check load resistance on your tube phono pre. | |
| What's Wrong With My Cartridge/Setup? You're most-probably using MM cartridge onto MC section or your load impedance of your phono is too low. | |
| Big Stupid Warm Speakers Don't forget about Totem Wind used at arround $3600... | |
| Big Stupid Warm Speakers I would suggest looking arround Martin Logan line especially those fully electro-static.Before they play they need to get WORM. |