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| Harbeth C7- Tube or solid state power? The "most" bass won't be the most accurate bass. I use 16 inch stands, which are close in height to the 17 inch matching wooden stands that Harbeth used to provide with the speakers. Any lower than that and you may get more bass, but probably some... | |
| Harbeth C7- Tube or solid state power? That is true, most of us use solid state amps, and don't understand why anyone would want to use tubes. But, there are quite a few who are happy with C7's and tube amps. The amp should be fairly robust and stable. High power tube amps do fine with... | |
| Rock Lyrics - Best Reference to Other Rock Group I know your thread title refers to other rock groups, but I give you Barbara Keith's "Death of the American Song" - on the Stone Coyotes cd called "Born To Howl":"So beat the drum slowly as they carry her awayWrapped in white linen as cold as the ... | |
| Breakdown of audio investment Just taking my best system at the moment, and contrasting with the last configuration; now beforecd player 34% 27%speakers 24% 19%ttbl/cartridge 16% 13%preamp 13% 23%amp 9% 15%cables 4% 3%Actual cost. The retail price of the cdp would make it an e... | |
| The British speaker sound: Tannoy, Harbeth, etc... I wasn't going to respond to this post, because I have no idea what Tannoy and Harbeth have in common. My guess is nothing. But regarding the BBC dip, it is only about 3 db, in the presence region - so the only effect is to move things back just a... | |
| Cowboy Junkies I have a pristine Trinity Sessions lp, played twice I think. Once when I bought it years ago, and once in the last year or two after I learned from someone in the industry the way the vocals were recorded. Some members of the band confirmed the ru... | |
| Off center stylus - Does this affect sonics ?????? YW. It seems you did the right thing under the circumstances, but cantilevers are usually tapered, so it must be very difficult to align. But there's more. Without seeing it in person I would be a little worried about it leaning a little one way o... | |
| Off center stylus - Does this affect sonics ?????? I don't even want to think about this. If you mean that the stylus cantilever is not parallel to the sides of the cartridge body, how do you align the cartridge? Did you install at a slight angle so that the cantilever, but not the body of the car... | |
| Here's why amps can be more important than speaker No, the resulting output will be a combination of the fundamental plus the distortion components. | |
| Two of your best audiophile Blues CD's ? I think the two best are BB King's Live at Cook County Jail and Sam Cooke's Night Beat. Close behind is BB King's Live at the Regal.Recently, the first Keb Mo cd and Terry Evans's Blues for Thought are very good and I would say audiophile quality ... | |
| Here's why amps can be more important than speaker Utter nonsense. A bad speaker sounds bad, period. A cheap amp with a good speaker is far preferable. If you don't think the distortion produced by speakers is troublesome, then you simply don't care what real life sounds like and you have never he... | |
| Pre-amp as input to another pre-amp? I can't think of any reason it would not be safe. Turn the volume down on the Adcom to begin with and then turn it up as high as you need. I assume the Classe does not have tone controls, so here is no risk of accidentally doubling up on bass boos... | |
| Pre-amp as input to another pre-amp? Yes, but instead of using the pre-out on the tuner-preamp why not just use the tape out facility it probably has? Fixed output like your cd player, bypass the volume control of the first and probably sound better. | |
| How to spot a high current amps? Ghostrider, the rating and advertising claim is "capable of 40 amps pk-pk," and the claimed continuous wpc number into 8 ohms both channels driven is 30. This amp was actually one of the first I saw, this was 20 years ago, for which any current de... | |
| How to spot a high current amps? Hmm. I have amps with current rating, eg., 45 amps, 40 amps, 60 amps. One of them is not difficult at all to lift. Very light in fact, an old Mission Cyrus One integrated that feels like it weighs a pound or two. Yet it was rated at 40 amps, but o... |