viridian
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| VTL 50/50 Power Amp Originally, VTL was made in Great Britain. This piece may be from that era, check the back panel to see. It is many, many moons ago. If my memory serves, it was marketed through Audio Advisor and was featured in the catalog. | |
| What do you NEVER want to hear again??? Very interesting things get played in audio showrooms these days. | |
| What do you NEVER want to hear again??? Holly Cole, Pat Barber and especially, especially, Diana Krall; no jazz lite chantuses for me! I'll stick with Nina Simone, never heard her in a store demo though. | |
| Where do I go from here, keep it clean Screw the stereo; more chrome on the hog!Marty (as always) | |
| No posting from me for awhile "Lucky" says to send you best wishes and good luck. | |
| Paint Removal? Playing any Holly Cole or Patricia Barber CD should remove any paint. The problem is that the sound is not localized and may remove the paint from your entire listening room. | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood Tom, this was a very sensitive crew, starting at the Production Designer and going downward. The picture deservedly won the Oscar for best Art Direction. We all really strove to get things right. You can see other examples of the work by the same ... | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood I worked as an Art Department Coordinator on several features on the Sony Studios (formerly called Columbia Pictures) lot in Culver City, as well as working at the Culver Studios and on location films. I can safely say that money for such things w... | |
| New Audiogon Categories? I'd like to see a category titled "overpriced garbage" so that I could avoid the ads from fortune hunters. | |
| Replacing MM Cartridge suggestions phillips table Oh, you will also want to change the belt if the table has been sitting, which should cost less than $20.00. | |
| Replacing MM Cartridge suggestions phillips table To answer your question of how much you will need to spend, less than $100.00 will better your Micro Acoustics cartridge by a wide margin and will get you a cartridge that is well matched to your current turntable. I think that the V15Vmr is overk... | |
| 4 ohm tap vs 8 ohm tap Scott, no damage will result. Most amps will output a bit more power with the matched load, though this is not always the case. The lower impedance tap will have the greater damping factor, which will result in better bass control. Will you prefer... | |
| "hard bop" jazz heads.... Albert, no Tina Brooks or Bud Powell or Roland Kirk or Charles Mingus? | |
| Stress on Solid State Amps Class A amps will run much cooler at full power than at idle or low power so amplifier class should be taken into consideration. | |
| High-end hifi market share It has been said that the Bose marketing budget is bigger than the retail sales of all high-end brands combined. Urban myth? I don't think so. They know how to go to market; the high end brands don't. |