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| Best Music Review Resource If you are looking for a good classical music review publication, American Record Guide is one I can heartily endorse. They seem to be less influenced by advertiser's revenues than many others. You will have to endure the editor's endless invectiv... | |
| Microphonic tubes... Being new to tube equipment myself, I've researched this issue. It seems that there is quite a bit of variablity from tube to tube as far as microphonics and noise. Especially among certain nos tubes. It would be woth your time to go to www.vintag... | |
| Hidden Audiophile Classics Ricardo Chailly's/London Sinfonietta's London recording of Stravinsky's Divertimento, Fanfares, Suites 1&2, Octet, & Three Pieces for Clarinet is a wonderful disc. It's very well recorded and performances are superb. You'll find it a demo ... | |
| Best new amp under $2k? All of the amps mentioned are fine performers I'm sure. There's no shortage of high value performance now it seems. While I haven't heard all of those mentioned and can't make meaningful personal comparisons, I am very pleased with the sound of my... | |
| Know of a "Dirt Cheap" tweak? This doesn't help in every system, but this made a very audible improvement in my system. You need a voltmeter and a cheater plug(s) that will let you orient the ac plug(s) in either standard or reverse polarity. I made my own and used a grinder t... | |
| Neutral/Bass Treble? With modern, well done recordings, there is generally no need to use tone controls if you have a harmoniously integrated system. BUT, I sure do find that a number of older recordings from 20+ years back benefit from slight adjusments. Personally, ... | |
| Why is amp toroid humming? Thanks to all who have contributed opinions and suggestions. As Richard at Vantage Audio opined, David Belles has been helpful with suggestions and is quite willing to replace/repair the toroid if required. Of course, neither one of us want to shi... | |
| sonic frontiers discounted There have been some recent discussions about this topic. Research "Sonic Frontiers, what is going on??" on the search feature this site provides. | |
| amps and cd players for magnepan 1.6qr As Lshreve suggested, the Maggie users group is a good place to research opinions on things like this. It strikes me that a number of products will match well with 1.6's, from the variety of producs that people find satisfactory. The reviews I hav... | |
| CD player tweaks I also have a Cambridge cd4se (w/Cambridge C500 preamp, Belles 150A Hot Rod, & Magnepan 1.6qrs.) Recently, I purchased the Aurex mat and cannot say that I'm all that impressed with it. On SOME discs, I could hear a slight improvement, on most,... | |
| OFF, Standby, or ON for amplifiers Another perspective on this question can be found at amp designer David Belles' site "www.powermodules.com" (click on "articles" on the home page.) In the short article he states that both passive and active components can be subject to shortened ... |