swampwalker
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| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "There's something we need to discuss-Your husband's cheatin' on us"Matraca Berg | |
| problems picking a HT system due to ohmage I wouldn't get too hung up on the difference between the impedance difference between a nominal 6 ohm and 8 ohm ratings. In real world, impedance (not ohmage) rating is less important than if there are significant variations across the entire freq... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR Charles1dad- That be the beast (and I do mean beast...it made me recall the advice of one A'goner who said that the quality of a tube amp is very closely correlated to its weight, which, of course, correlates to the weight of its output xfrmrs.) W... | |
| Audio Research, next upgrade? Assuming that your amp and speakers are a good match (I have no idea), then I would suggest getting the best pre-amp you can swing. | |
| using my computer as a music server The answer to your question is yes, a music server or other computer source can match or beat a good transport. Suggest you search the forums, do some reading @ computeraudiphile.com and then check back here w specific questions. | |
| Manufacturer checkups Not in my mind, if only for the shipping risk. If a phone call w the s/n does not indicate any possible problems or "unadvertised updates", I wouldn't do it, but I'm not all that anal about my gear. | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR Charles1dad- Pls send me an email msklein52@comcast.net, if you are interested in comparing the Takasukis and BTs to KR and/or AVVT We clones. I have a pair of each but my VAC takes 4 300bs, so they are "on the shelf" right now. With the need for ... | |
| electrical short 1 channel. Cable spade at fault? Hayduke1- sorry, dude, but you are barking up the wrong tree. I know that it sucks to pay big $ for an amp repair. I did a dumb thing w a tube integrated and it cost me close to $1K for the repair, but it was my mistake so I took my lumps. You tel... | |
| Speaker cables for Merlin Speakers I've been very happy using all JADE Audio Vermeil cables and interconnects w my MMes. I found the Cardas GRs to be a little "slow". Never tried the Clears. | |
| Can pandora be improved? My ears agree w Mtruong34. I listen to Pandora quite a bit through my Modwright Transporter. It sounds very nice. Surprisingly good SQ. | |
| PASS and ZYX here is barely enough gain without the PH3 yet using it tends to overdrive the phono section. I don't understand. The PH3SE is a phono stage, no? W/o it, what are you using for RIAA equalization and boosting the signal to line stage input voltage?... | |
| Buzz in my Will Vincent amp Is it a mechanical humm/buzz, not through the speakers? if so, it could be some dc on the power line or it could be that the xformer hold downs need tightening. | |
| Stereo and Fish tanks - noisy need help Its been a long time since I had an aquarium. You can start by asking the fish to be quiet when music is playing ;-) Seriously, you could get rid of the pump noise by running an air line from another room but you might need a more powerful pump to... | |
| Portable DAC Maybe try one of Ray Samuel's units. | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... I recently have been enjoying Oban. A very nice middle of road malt; not too peaty, not too sweet. I really like it and its not $1k/bottle. Not even a c-note. |