stanwal
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| Best vintage Sansui integrated I had the 919; I think the consensus was that it was better than later ones. The high frequencies were fine on the 919. The AU-X1 was even better but hard to find; I had one of those also. I had these at the same time I was a Krell dealer so had g... | |
| Musical Fidelity M3 integrated Actually, he went whole hog and got some Lamm monos. He had a tube Lamm pre at first and then bought the kW line stage I had. His last purchase has been a AR Ref 5 line stage. Needless to say this is a very good sounding system. I hesitate to reco... | |
| Musical Fidelity M3 integrated I came to the conclusion along with my friend who owned the Mac. On his Wilson Sasha the M3 was so much better he sold the Mac the next week. Yes, it has internal jumpers; they are short RCA ICs. I removed them when I wanted to try my kW line stag... | |
| Musical Fidelity M3 integrated If you are talking about the NuVista M3 any rca ic will do; of course length would be a problem. You could get custom lengths made. I suggest using a Bob's Devices SUT if you are using MC cartridges with the phono stage or a good external phono st... | |
| Who listens only to vinyl? My CD, Meridian 200-Metrum Octave, is very good but my vinyl is better. Tables are modified Linn LP 12 with Rega 1000 arm and Basis 2001 with Graham 2.2. Cartridges AT 33EV and Denon 304. It is of course much easier to get new material on CD. Let ... | |
| Does the speaker port limits the woofer excursion? Manitune is correct. The idea of a port is to relieve the back pressure on the woofer and allow it to move farther than in a sealed box according to all the discussions I have read. Air rushes out of the box at the frequency the port is tuned to. ... | |
| Coax or USB between transport and DAC? I would use coax; USB connections appear to be more variable than coax. | |
| What happened to Krell Dan D. is out and has a new company. However, Krell remains one of the best amps; FAR better than Mac IMHO. The new line, 402e for example, are the best sounding amps they have made so far. The current Chinese made 300 series integrated amp is bet... | |
| Audiogon sellers, please stop and read this thread Nothing new under the sun. I remember buying a demo pair of Apogee Duetta Signatures from a high end dealer in Atlanta in the early 90s; I had paid for them and they were sending them air freight collect to Knoxville; I got a call telling me that ... | |
| Tonearm Ideas for Garrard 301 Rebuild The 12" version of the Jelco might also be considered. I have the 9" version of the 750 and it is quite good. | |
| Amp design logic A friend makes tube preamps by hand; when I bought one in the late 80s the price was around $1000. He investigated producing them commercially but found that setting up an actual production line would result in them having to retail at $3000 to $4... | |
| Amp design logic Look at car prices; a Kia, Mercedes and Rolls Royce all have 4 wheels, a seat and will get you there but the price differential is enormous. Remember that construction cost usually equals 10% of selling price; the rest is overhead and profit. If t... | |
| Configuration Questions Creek also makes a remote volume control with no active circuitry. I have one of them as well as a 22 passive pre I use with my HT set up. | |
| technics SP-25 armboard They had either 2 or 3 aditional arm wands designed for heavier cartridges but they would be hard to find, although I did see one a couple of years ago. I had an EPA 500 in the 80s and it is a great arm. You could add mass to your counter weight i... | |
| naim DAC-Thoughts? It is a very good dac, I shopped for one for several years. But the Metrum Octave which I now use is considerably better at a fraction of the price. |