viridian
Responses from viridian
| Monitor Audio Made in China? LOL, cute, very cute. Peel off the label and enjoy your fine speakers! | |
| Powering up a SET amp after 6 months in storage The issue with gear that has been sitting for long periods is generally a breakdown of the dielectric charge on the capacitors. To reform them, as pmotz suggests, a variac is used. Although initial power should actually be hundreths or even milliw... | |
| Cartridge upgrades for Technics SL-1200MK2? Tvad, back again for some more, what happened did your account get reactivated? | |
| Cartridge upgrades for Technics SL-1200MK2? Johnny, +1 on the Denon cartridges, really great sounding. It is marvelous that we have such nice choices to suit our turntables and tastes so long after the long playing record was pronounced dead! | |
| Cartridge upgrades for Technics SL-1200MK2? The Dynavector cartridges are a good match for this arm and the Sumiko aftermarket headshell is another good tweek for medium and low compliance cartridges. If you want something now that outperforms the Shure by a wide margin, the Audio Technicat... | |
| How Much Is Too Much? The size of the speakers must be matched to the volume of the room. The Alexandrias are not going to sound very good in a typical European lounge or urban apartment and I doubt that the Sonus will sound right in one of those capacious 5000 cubic f... | |
| High frequency ringing caused by drivers? Sounds to me like the impedance curve of the loudspeakers is causing the output of the amp to ring and operate out of the linear region, in which case band-aids won't help. I would call Roger Modjeski at Music Reference. | |
| A question I suspect reveals a lot of ignorance... Power tubes run in class A are maximally stressed at idle, so they will age pretty much equally if playing or not. Most preamp tubes are also run this way, so this holds true for them as well. Most tube amps outputs are class A/B and these are str... | |
| Arm choices for Thorens TD 150 MKll AB Thanks so much gents. So, a unipivot it shall be, the Mayware and Hadcock seem to be great choices. I really don't mind the MM thing as I have a 14 gram effective mass arm on my other table and that pretty much limits me to MCs on that one. I thin... | |
| Artists 'SELLING OUT' - can we discuss? Since when is making money from your talent and craft "selling out"? I go to work five days a week and never really considered that I was "selling out". More like paying for the house and cars and all the other crap, like stereo gear. I imagine th... | |
| Best vintage Marantz receivers? I rather like the 19 with the built in oscilloscope; good tuner and decent amp section as well. | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... Right, with a feedback rating that is double yours, I have never had the pleasure of selling anything here that isn't current so I appreciate you setting me straight. I guess that makes me a dealer, and you a psychic, eh? As I said, I do agree wit... | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... Great point, about devaluing the gear but, "obsolete--and worthless"? You must be taking hyperbole lessons from Jb8312. | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... So if you buy an amp that is subsequently upgraded, does that somehow change the sound of your amp? Or invalidate your buying decision? The next guy presumably gets a better sounding product, that would be progress wouldn't it? Perhaps version 3 w... | |
| Not Another NuForce thread...... If you are a reviewer, then you should probably refrain from making unsubstantiated statements based on limited sampling, no matter how broad. Perhaps something more like, "One of the top five amps that I have heard". But that really does not sell... |