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Bat VK-P10 and Sonic Frontiers SFP 1 Signature
i heard from different people that bat mates good with only bat.some cases i believe are true.is there two sets of inputs/outputs balanced/unbalanced?if yes you should only use balanced connection and newtralize the unbalanced with cardas caps ava... 
CD Recordings..... What Do U Know?
Rives, It's rather playback system has level of jitter X but not the original CD for christ sake.The recorded CD will than have 1.1X level of jitter played in the same system.Yes the future high end CD players might have a memory buffer that will ... 
Bi Amping... worth it?
Drrdiamond,Is there Krell amp 20W/ch??...In all logical sence in order 20W/ch to have the gain arround 30dB the input sencitivity must be 8 milivolts i.e. something between the phono and preamp. So theoretically in such amp you could plug in high-... 
Best Integrated Tube Amp for 2.5K or Less
Asa,From now on i begin to understand that it's not a SS vs. tube issue in general rather than pure and simple bucks. I 100% agree that in 2...6K range VTL amps are standing to be the one of the best and they do beat SS correspondedly. There are d... 
Bi Amping... worth it?
Patrick, Bridging and Bi-amping are two different issues.There is horizontal and vertical bi-amping.In Horizontal bi-amping you use one stereo amp per channel with two pairs of speaker cables/wires connected to the binding posts of a bi-wirable sp... 
state songs -- our suggestions?
Anyone knows Nina Hagen's New York New York?There is a german and english version of the same song can be found on her single LP. 
Review: Theta Digital Data Basic II Transport
i still use ead dsp7000 since i wasn't able to find a better match in the price range. i've acquired this unit for $250 and looking for the improvement in newer tech within $1200...1800 and still can't find. i know that i could jump higher for the... 
Difference between SME 3009 VS. RB 300?
Please make a note that you can try out an AudioQuest PT9 arm that sort-of combines quality of both and in the same price range + very user friendly. Will be a great match to any inexpencive turntable such as Thorens TD160, Well-Tempered. For more... 
CD Recordings..... What Do U Know?
you should admit that re-recording will not be better than original in any case.you can make it sound better if you will re-master from original tape but there you should face the copyright issues. 
state songs -- our suggestions?
Chris Rea "I'm going to Texas""Alabama Song" by Jimmy Morrison 
CD Recordings..... What Do U Know?
i'm not sure about professional cd recordings but if you get dat and make a recording from vinyl you'll be indeed more successfull and have a recording much better than on regular red-book cd. 
Best Integrated Tube Amp for 2.5K or Less
Asa, from nothing to tubes?IMO there shoudn't be any comparison between $350 NAD and $2K VTL.I would call convert that would go from EMC3 to VTL IT85 for example. 
How do you determine how much to spend on speakers
i realized that the maximum i will EVER spend on speakers is $9000 and this would certainly be Sennheizer Orpheus earspeaker system that no floor or monitor speaker i've heard so far can beat. after that the upgrades will only affect sources and p... 
Bi Amping... worth it?
If you reed specs with no gain specified on the amp all you should do is to derive an output voltage from the following equation:Output Power = V*V/R (squared output voltage divided by load resistance)We have load resistance specified usually 8 or... 
Burn-in and Biasing
all today's vtl product have that switch for triode or tetrode operation. I assume that 85W/ch is for tetrode(sorry not penthode) operation and you might have a switch to switch it to triode which nearly halves the output power. in my case(Totem F...