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| Our we Lazy? Unfortunately this thread is becoming a tube vs. SS debate rather than posts by people who have heard and owned many of the great solid state and tube amps and know very well the strengths of each. I thought the point of this thread was to determi... | |
| The elite phono stages VS. Full function Pre-amps G_m_c: Read the page again. Michael Elliot writes that he will not handle the MC gain through active circuits but rather with an step-amp transformer because of the noise issue. It sounds like he has a few different companies that will source him ... | |
| The elite phono stages VS. Full function Pre-amps Hello,I have been thinking exactly along the same lines. I too own a standard Io with one power supply and want very much to hear how an Io signature might be and the benfits of the 2nd power supply. I posted a question on this just last night. An... | |
| Calling all Aesthetix Callisto / Io Owners Thank you all for your comments:Nkj: It's unfortunate that the PS's are pinned differently for the Io vs. Callisto. Must be a subtle difference needed between the two products. But that ends my chances of hearing either one at the moment with 2 PS... | |
| Best pre-owned subs below $1k? I paid $1100 for a used pair of Velodyne ULD-12 powered subs a few years ago. These work so very well in a Home Theatre application. Having two of these allows for better bass balance around the room. My only complaint is that they are walnut whic... | |
| How good is Empirical Audio's Parasound JC1 Mod? I don't know if I would discredit a review from a new member just because this is that person's first post here. But reviews on products that compare to other products, in this case, a stock model vs. a modified model, without the comparison being... | |
| CAT JL2 & Pre SL1 or Atma-Sphere MA-1 & MP-1 Rushton: I too was very surprised and disappointed in the MP3 I borrowed for a weekend. After reading nothing but the greatest praise of their amps for many many years, I had a lot of excitement to finally get a chance to hear this preamp....and i... | |
| CAT JL2 & Pre SL1 or Atma-Sphere MA-1 & MP-1 Pubul: I'm not sure I would agree with the "tonal correction" process through cables. Someone who buys the CAT gear is doing this to a large degree on the product's incredible dynamics and resolution. So many cables that may add warmth to the tona... | |
| CAT JL2 & Pre SL1 or Atma-Sphere MA-1 & MP-1 I was hoping Brian would chime in here but I'll go ahead and give my experiences with these two product lines.First off the preamps: I have not heard the MP1 but have wanted to for many years. The MP3 was one of the most disappointing auditions I ... | |
| Tube recommendations for ARC LS-2 What do you mean by improve the vocals? Do you want more 3-dimensionality, presence out into the room or harmonic richness? You can try all sorts of different tubes here but these qualities are simply not going to be found in the LS2....like squee... | |
| CAT JL2 & Pre SL1 or Atma-Sphere MA-1 & MP-1 Brian (audiogon member is EssentialAudio) has much experience with these two lines next to each other driving Soundlabs. I suggest you send him an email for what I suspect would be some valuable comparative strengths/differences of each.John | |
| ARC VTM200 Question I assume you swapped the input cables on the amps to verify each amp is getting a signal. And try swapping speaker cables to eliminate a problem here too. Then a call to ARC makes a lot of sense. | |
| Review: Aesthetix Calypso Line Stage Tube preamp Hey Jadem6: Looks like I might have to try out some big bears in my room - maybe behind the Soundlabs instead of the Soundlab Sallies. I live in the twin cities west metro so throw me an email and I'm sure I will have some free weekend or evening ... | |
| Review: Aesthetix Calypso Line Stage Tube preamp Hello, welcome to the happy musical world of Aesthetix. You clearly put a lot of effort into making this work for you and it really paid off. So few people give a product a chance like you did. Right on!I have been running with an Io for almost 2 ... | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier Wow Sean, what a wealth of technical details. Thank you as there is always much to learn from your inputs.As Sean mentions, we try to maintain our "more friendly" nature but sometimes things are written here that just fire us up. And no matter how... |