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| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp I want to work with the best time for everybody. Bob Levi says he will be here at 10AM. It's so blasted hot in California now it's hard to do anything during the day but stay in and listen to music. I would almost like to say 11AM so I can go f... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp It's official. We will do an precise level-matched A/B comparison of the ARC VSI75 and the DiaLogue Premium integrated amps. Also attending is Bob Levi President of the L.A. and Orange County Audio Society. Both are fabulous amplifiers. We'll... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp skyhawk51 I would just relax and have fun. You have a nice amp and preamp, and I suspect you will get many hours of enjoyment from it. In a month or so all this angst will fade I suspect. Some amps don't have plate fuses and rely on sacrificia... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp who was the first to show experimentally that volume was so important?was it some dude with a big lab at Harmon? Here's some links. Some of this is kind of propeller head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%E2%80%93Munson_curves https://e... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp Kevin at UpScaleAudio, here's an idea that I think many on this thread might like. If you go through with the sound challenge or something like it, make a video of it and then post it on your YouTube channel. I don't know what to put up on Yout... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp That's just silly. Many dealers have good listening rooms and an audiophile can certainly make an initial evaluation there. Sometimes it's easy to ascertain that an amp is too bright, or lacks bass, or is just in some way not to the liking of th... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp I would love to know how PL stood up to ARC in a controlled listening test, especially against ARC reference equipment I can’t believe nobody on this thread lives in So Cal????You can’t "demo" an amp at a store. Or a preamp. There is only one way... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp Look inside the Oyster case of an ARC Ref 6 and tell me that you're not impressed.By the way...congrats on a bad-ass preamp. I would also guess you will get the matching amp at some point and it will look and sound beautiful. Every time I get ... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp "But PrimaLuna wanted the best sound and I think what they have supplied is pretty damn nice "Isn't "they" you & your partner, Kevin? Of course! Why do you think I'm answering? I don't own the company. Let's make that clear. But I'm ec... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp I try to stick with the facts. That way it can’t be called marketing, which is what I loathe most in my industry. The most reputable brands are at times the worst abusers, because nobody questions them. Look at speakers. It was 15 years ago that a... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp I could not agree more about Rolexes and anyone who even casually reads the watch boards knows that what you say is true. Do you know about the NOMOS Tangomat? German made rather than Swiss, but movement is made in-house with incredible precisi... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp Oh, one last thing Kevin, should you happen to see this; twice now you’ve mentioned this six-position testing regimen. What in the hell does that have to do with anything? Do gravitational forces effect electrons flowing through a piece of kit? No... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp I confess to not having heard the Dialogue Premium. Watch Fremer’s videos of the ARC factory tour on youtube. It takes a week to hand-build a Ref 6 at AR’s Minnesota factory. Every transistor is stuffed and soldered by hand, all assembly in every ... | |
| Considering switching from Audio Research to PrimaLuna, troube with VS115 amp Hi guys....I was looking for some info on Google and saw this thread. I wanted to respond to the post that said in my videos I don't talk about how ARC sounds to PrimaLuna and that I only speak of parts and engineering. The reason is everybody s... | |
| PrimaLuna Phono ?? Hey Plato...I don't get to go to forums much but I'm waiting for my wife to blow dry here hair so thought I would lurk. The phono stage was designed by Ex-Goldmund Engineer Marcel Croese and is made in Holland. It is fabulous as you stated, but ... |