larryi
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| The Best & Rarest of all Stereo Gear I suppose much of what I currently run is rare and quite nice sounding. My preamp is custom-made by Aldo D'Urso in Italy. This makes it "modern," although very few of the components are actually modern. The chassis, tube (310 and 311s), input a... | |
| HIGH Quality Electric Service Panel I know someone who use to design high end music and theater rooms. He would start with a high quality electric panel I believe he liked Equi=Tech. | |
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? I have heard them numerous times at shows and in a couple showrooms. At their best, they sound VERY good. The best that I heard them sound was in quite large rooms, rooms that were closer to small auditorium than even a large living room. Also,... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? I have found that how loud a system needs to be played to be satisfying is not just a matter of the type of speaker or particular models of speakers. The nature of the amplifier is as important. I have been at demonstrations where people who are... | |
| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? I particularly like horns because they can sound dynamic, lively, and satisfying at quite low volume levels. It is just a guess, but, I bet that is part of the reason they are so popular in Japan where everyone lives close together and no one wan... | |
| Music Server Thanks everyone for the response so far. Although I have not been in the market for a server for some time, when I did look into the matter, I did not particularly like computers running software approach as much as a purpose-built server. I fou... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals I like Marianne Faithfull's "Sister Morphine" more than the Stone's version, but, I don't know which is the cover (Jagger and Faithfull co-wrote the song).Peter Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is another decent cover.I like covers that ch... | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? From the standpoint of safety, longevity and energy savings, it makes sense to power down everything. This is particularly true of tube gear. I can understand not wanting to power down amps which can take a really long time to come back up to so... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland Inna,What do you mean by youtube auditioning? I hope you don't seriously mean that you have attempted to discern what stuff sounds like by the audio portion of a youtube posting. At best, youtube tells you something about what the gear looks lik... | |
| Viva, no longer a fan The type of protection of the US distributor and the local dealerships that Viva appears to be employing will, unfortunately, hurt some used buyers that unknowingly purchased a unit that has ended up in another country/sales region. But, absent s... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! emailist,The insect tweak is part of a comprehensive approach I take to just about all my endeavors--If I can get away with doing nothing, that is how I will handle it. That is why I also use "dust damping" for my turntable and other components--... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I am in agreement with most of what Art Dudley says about vintage 1930-60's gear, generally speaking, but, the specific examples he mentioned in the excerpts quoted above, are not what I would be setting out as examples. The Quad? Yes, a terrific... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! Moonglum, Good to hear that your table is working so well for you. As I said, I never had problems with my HW19 and it is still going strong in someone else's hands. My mild concern with VPI is not with the number of models, but, rather, with ho... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! Many years ago I had a VPI HW16 (IV) with a Graham arm on it. That was a very good table that is completely trouble free (it is still at work in a friend's system. Before that, I had the older, non-golf ball version of the WTT (it had a plastic ... | |
| Would increasing the gain in the amp give more weight to the sound? Any negatives? Oops, I did not attach the URL, for some reason insert URL is not working:http://theartofsound.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-10335.html |