marakanetz

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Clearaudio Reference Solution
graham is indeed the best arm and mates well with transfiguration carts. might reduce your spendings as well. 
Help with $600 to $800 integrated amp
why should you look for integrated when you can get even separates for this price range:McCormack Micro Line Drive/McCormack DNA0.5 wired with canare cables will get you under $800.For Creek you should upgrade speakers since it's not a great drive... 
who makes a good set of headphones
Grados are excellent headphones but wearing them and keeping them on the head for a long time is a hell of a pain.Senheiser HD-600 are not close to the quality of sound to the RS1 but great to wear and great value.Stax is the world ear standard th... 
Do you pay seller for packaging supplies?
I always let know to the buyer if there is an original box otherwise the box is being ordered from the manufacturer OR(i admit the small scam) by chance I take the box free from the dealer for a specific component if he sells it. It realy depends ... 
Need immediate help
If the unit has a true-balanced in/outputs along with single-ended use Balanced.Definition:True-balanced outputs have their signal wire split to two for positive and negative component of the signal. 
How Often Do You Listen To Live Music??
i hate visiting huge concert halls and rather listen to the music in small area. i often go by 34th street station and listen to unamplified violinists, guitarists and vocals.for the rock i also go to the small places since i mostly visit non-comm... 
bolting speakers to floor?
Since I have a baby issues I constructed a 1Mx1M MDF platform with spikes at the corners that is being flexibly bolted onto the platform so that I could actually rotate the speaker(since it's originally stands on the ball bearings) and it turned o... 
Speaker placement at dealers
When you audition speakers in the demo room 1st place yourself to be a dealer and 2nd be kind to ask dealer to move speakers the way you want to listen to them since they're not yours yet have to serve for the other customers for demos. Dealer don... 
A question about cable break-in
I believe that there are a huge number of variable proccesses that are going on during the performance of interconnect or the speaker cable. To explain this proccess you gotta be a scientist in all sciences(probably excluding IT but might be handy... 
Class A amplifier choice, need suggestions
to be more precise SA series work in class A at whole rated power in to 8 ohms. that i learned from the manufacturer. i 90% tend to believe due to their huge massiveness of the chasis and real worm sound. 
Rare Music?
OK I probably have an ultra-sophisticated collection of records and CDs.I have lots of sophisticated electronics, avant-grade jazz, different types of progressive rock and even ultra-hard to find neo-classical pieces. I also have a list for sale o... 
Surge Recovery - Burned PC board issue. Techs?
Sean, Your help is always appreciated!1.Fortunately the PC-board is not double-sided and I don't have to count on the capacitance between the sides of the PC-board! Tracing the signal path is relatively easy for me as I can open the other monobloc... 
Class A amplifier choice, need suggestions
I just found out that Plinius amps work in class A to the whole rated power into 8 Ohms. Into 4 ohms they switch to class B depending on the power needs. 
A question about cable break-in
Check this out firsthttp://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1035814646&openusid&zzMarakanetz&4&5#Marakanetz 
music , mind , thought and emotion
I liked your ear-definition, Onhwy61!speach, screams, thuds, winds or ANY sounds including music represent a data for ear to be transfered to the brain. A musical instrument can be called a transmitter of music if operated by musician into our bra...