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Have you tried the ART SLA-1 amp yet?
To all those reading (Pmkap, harmonic discord, Occams (same person)) rant. My unit uses an Airpax breaker switch which I have found to be far superior sonically to the breaker I was once going to use. I think this character thinks he can bait me i... 
Audio Valve Amps? Good?Bad? Love Them?
I have used both the 75 watt and the 140 watt verisons of the amplifier. I find them to be adequate amplification devices that seem to be low maintenance. The unit do not require manula bias which some would prefer as they do not have to pull out ... 
Review: ART SLA-1 Amplifier
Dlshifi: Thank you and I fully accept the apology.d911 
Review: ART SLA-1 Amplifier
I think that was an apology. Forget the sidetracking, I agree that the discussion should remain topic related. I respect your view of the amp. I don't agree with your second posting which seems very different from the first posting (to me), but th... 
Review: ART SLA-1 Amplifier
I can take the abuse. The fact is the amp is as good as I said it was. Abuse away, I'm a big boy, I know good sound when I hear it. d911 
Pro vs. Consumer Equipment
Bare with me for a moment. I want to take a moment to flat out APOLOGIZE. I have behaved badly to say the least. Though zealous, I could have and should have presented myself in a more forthcoming manner. I accept the responsibility of my action a... 
Have you tried the ART SLA-1 amp yet?
Bare with me for a moment. I want to take a moment to flat out APOLOGIZE. I have behaved badly to say the least. Though zealous, I could have and should have presented myself in a more forthcoming manner. I accept the responsibility of my action a... 
Pro vs. Consumer Equipment
Albert I believe you. Every mod is not equal. This sharing of the minds and experience is, however, what makes this hobby as fun as it is. It is also, unfortunately what has caused me to porbably spend close to a hundred grand in gear over the las... 
Pro vs. Consumer Equipment
Albert I know you prefer analog. I also know your system is completley optimized to make your LP playback sound decent. I am not surprised that you would say this. I have owned some very fine digital gear and to my ears (and to my dismay) the DIO ... 
Pro vs. Consumer Equipment
I have no problem with this. I just need some way to track it. There are obviously people who form opionins about gear they have not yet heard on this site, I won't allow it to go to any of them. If someone suggests a way I can track the unit and ... 
Pro vs. Consumer Equipment
WE also compared it to the $23K pacific microsonics pro dac. The dio literally destroyed it. Price does not always dictate performance. Also, generalizations about bias points and the such are of little interest to me unless I am in my lab designi... 
Pro vs. Consumer Equipment
It's gone. They gave me some lame excuse for removing it. Sean all i can say is that you should audition the amp. As far as the DIO, I don't know your' likes or dislikes or if you ever heard the unit, but it murdered my former Sony SCD-1. And all ... 
A Lamm amp with Avalon Eidolons?
Try the ART SLA-1 amp. Even if you don't mod it, it is better by far than the amps mentioned above. I have listened to all of them except the Boulder. Though I mod this amp I am very sincere when I say that WITHOUT the mod it is still better than ... 
Which will make the most impact, Tube amp or pre..
People ussually go for the tube preamp with the SS amp for the benefit of getting tube magic from the pre and keeping the control and power of the SS amp. I would also add that in a perfect world it always better to audition in your system first, ... 
Kharma CRM 3.2F vs. Avalon Eidolon and Diamond
Well this is what makes the world go round. The best tweet I have heard so far would have to be the Raven 2.0. Best regards,D911