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| No headphone output....options??? Headroom makes excellent headphone amplifier products as does Musical Fidelity. Less expensive units that are usable can be had from Rega and Creek and quite a few others (Consonance, ASL). You can buy dirt cheap of spend thousands on high end hea... | |
| Downsized and still happy, can it happen? I am getting ready to ditch the preamp entirely for a dedicated phono stage that will run directly into my amplifier which has two RCA inputs; one optimized for DAC output and the other for standard line level. The amp has a pair of quality steppe... | |
| Does this preamp exist? Be warned; the AI Mod 3a runs its triode tubes "hot" and is picky about tubes used. I blew a pair of NOS tubes overnight; nothing wrong with them. Most owners say only get your tubes from AI and Upscale audio. This is a known issue; so, your use o... | |
| Transport/Dac 101 I suggest you consider a Sony DVP-S7700 as it makes an excellent CD transport as well as a damned good DVD player. The secret is it has a dedicated laser pickup for the CD and another for the DVD. Stock it is very good; with minor mods (clock upgr... | |
| Does this preamp exist? note the BAT uses quite few tubes that can run into material money to upgrade to quality NOS units | |
| CAT Preamps vs Amps I do not know how the current units are set up but the earlier preamps (Reference) had their capacitor quite solidly glued to the board with some glue that only CAT can dissolve for service of the caps.I intended to go through my new (used) CAT Re... | |
| Suggestions for electronics for new HT system Check out a brand new Arcam AVR300 home theatre receiver. Has a nice phono section, excellent analogue stereo listening, and is very good as a processor with all the usual modes. The amplifier is also very good and powerful enough for all but thin... | |
| best turntable under $5k the micro seiki (vacuum model) in its original box with the ikeda it245 with a nice cartridge for 4000 looks damned good.. | |
| Richard Green room tune? well, for anybody that like violins check out RICHARD Greene.... | |
| Turntables better than a Wadia 861SE w/ Statement CAT phono stage is excellent although the gain is pretty high for some cartridges which can make volume settings a bitch with the stepped antenuator. That was my experience with an early CAT Signature, anyway.There are better arms than that Nottin... | |
| NPR, Wine Tasteing, & Audiophiles spanish and italian wines are hard to beat for value....12 bucks gets a pretty decent italian wine and 25 a very good young one like a Brunello...50 and it is heaven on earth | |
| How sub-satellite system should work - crossovers pinnacle has a very nice little sub called the subsonic that will work well as well as only take up about a 9" footprint; ie, pair of 6.5" driverstheir babyboomer is good, too, and only a little largermy first choice would be a REL Strata II or II... | |
| Best value table/arm/cart combo? With your budget you can get a much better rig than a low end VPI. I would definitely urge you to stay away from unipivot arms (what VPI uses) as it is easy to destroy a needle with such devices.I would suggest you take a look at Scheu Turntables.... | |
| KT88 single ended amp recommendations please 300b is the way to go...if you want more power go with a 211 or a quality 300b push/pull class A tube ampwe can supply any of these to your specification | |
| Whose sorry now? Sellers remorse from selling amp. merd..I forgot about those spendor ls3/5a speakers I let go for 500 as the cabs were a bit cosmetically challenged..another fooie pa |