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[quote user="Bud"]My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much bette...
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Let's see if I can magically produce a cd-dvd-preamp-remote volume conntrol-equalizer-wifi-d/a-save stations-and cost under $1000. And it will even tune in TV stations, record them, FM and internet files and even do a/d encoding up to 24/192. Can't b...
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Thos who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I might wait for net Super Electrici...
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Hi Romy,I wish I had seen your post on Placette before buying mine. I didn't realize that there is no balance control on the unit. I know in theory this should not be a problem, but I miss this feature for several reasons. Can't hav...
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Thanks Romy i found the colbert and solved the 60 cycle noise. now go and figure we have a most powerful AM/FM station here wwland the sightliest of its signal is bleeding in to my system. I like to use unshielded rcas i am single ended also, its got...
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Ok, thanks for explaining. I
few things I would like to note.
If your preamp, being
incorporated between you front-end and you power amps degrades sound in any way
or does not make sound better then it is not a good preamp. Period, there is n...
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Thanks for your reply.
I have double checked everything and my VR1 is connected on the positive bias side. With the input shorted I get -4.2V on the grid and it stays the same after I unshort it and adjust VR1 to 0v. Yesterday voltage was dri...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I mi...
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Well, I could not agree more.
I've had a pair of ML2s connected for the past several months. I say it like that because I have not yet seriously worked with them, as I am still building the horns that they will drive.
I connected the ML2s first...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] For now, the amplifiers I use are a pair of Lamm M1.1s (was going to look for a pair of used ML2s, but more and more considering building a pair of Meliquaides). Using the M1.1s with a pair of V.A. Parsifal/Encore (direct...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Actually a N.O.S. EC-8020 "diamond" is worth EUR 500+ ea., an STC 3A7167M is fetching EUR 750+ ea. (I own one N.O.S. sampler with original carton box, bought by chance for cheap, years ago) and WE 437A is at "only" EUR ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] I feel very pleased for you. I was always somewhat puzzled by your descriptions of how you felt the S2 sounded, particularly between 600 and 1200 Hz. My experiences with a few different horns but always with a good quality...
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I have found the problem and was able to resolve the noise quandary.
The Lavry ADC has balance analog input and the Sansui has single-ended output. I use my PAD’s Dominus cable with an RCA to XLR adapter. The adaptor was made by BAT and I used it f...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last week a local audio guy come to my place to listed some music and I played to him my Wand’s Bruckner 4 in video room. With all “phenominality” of the performance I need to confess that sound was horrible. The guy di...
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[quote user="RF at Ona"]Reading about the sensitivity of your system to electrical power supply problems reminds me of the days when I used to make my own equipment as much for the learning experience as for the final result.One of the mundane things...
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Playing tonight Bruckner Seventh I realized that something is very wrong in the system. The basses got insultingly “umfy”. Usually the basses in this music should be large but very soft and they should loll over with speed of like a senior hippopotam...
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Hi everyone,First, thank you for all your advices. The university take many most of my time, so listen to speaker had been difficult.So......I come back with many things too tell, i have made some listening sessions to find a good speaker to work wit...
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I finally added a -15 dB voltage divider to my ML2s last week to fix the noise problem from my L1 preamp - Why did I wait so long?!!The result is absolute dead silence. Nothing. Nada. It is almost impossible to tell if the system is powered on, ev...
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Well, what I have learned after a few experiments and some education is that Bluetooth, regardless quality of implementation is garbage, FM transmission is fine but to do it at more or less acceptable level it will be costly. So, I decided to take ad...
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Well, thanks for the heads up, I was planning on giving myself a PP2000 for Xmas, now I have to re think this.I used to have a 10Kva Isolation transformer and a DIY sort of Line conditioning system with a bunch of nice 4.7 mfd caps between Positive ...
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Well a DEQX will cost you less than a set of good caps! you can buy one and play around with it for a couple of months and see for yourself, you will have fun anyway and thats what tis all about! You will need and extra preamp and 3 different amps...
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Stephano Two good ears has put a post on his site about his new 4 way passive xover.I think this is a better direction than the digital xo. The designer, Thomas, designed also the preamp and I guess he has taken into consideration the input and ...
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[quote user="Paul S"] What are you using for pre-amp chores?
Have you tried phono sources yet?[/quote]
I do not use analog for now, since my preamp is being rebuilt, I hope I will have it back this week. Well, I was listening today the life MET’s b...
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Hi Cat[quote user="Romy the Cat"] However, here is where the trick begins. Putting the headphones on, playing them along with the big loudspeakers system and adjusting the volume of the “big system” (primary the LF channel) it is possible to take the...
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Allo,Well, the divider may certainly be responsible for some softening of transients - in particualr, what values are you using there?Also, the received wisdom is that silver micas are created far from equal; no experience with them myself but I beli...
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Hi Romy,Interesting scale you've come up with there. I would like you to take a look at a preamplifier from Korea called Silvaweld. I have found that with this preamp (model SWC 1000) in my system I can differentiate easily the ...
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I think they're different things. I have a tubed phono preamp which I've slightly tweaked until it delivers the results I needed. If I had found a SS unit doing the same things for me, I had got it. It's not a matter of tubes being better or wor...
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[quote user="Purite Audio"]The veneering is top quality, did you hear them Stitch?Keith.[/quote]Yes, the quality of making is top but to be fair to other manufacturers, they do a good job also. I think, the finish is more important than the sound qua...
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I have no specific personal interest in any new analog adventures as I am pretty comfortable with sound I am getting but for sake of expending the general horizons about what is available out there I would like to point out one might be interesting t...
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Indeed I do know that high wattage does not necessarily mean that accurate dynamic shadings are successfully reproduced, however, I will tell you that my high power amps do the job well, and his tubes do not. Perhaps if he used a horn speaker, ...
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