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Please help, obsessive audiophile question
Rlips, I didn't realize that you have a picture of your setup until I read Sean's comment. I always try to look for most abvious - your plants behind speakers are not the same size, did you try to swap them around? 
Please help, obsessive audiophile question
A shot of black label or single molt will do wonders to equlize the balance. 
Pre-Amp with A/B Switch?
If you'll only have a pre-amp with A/B switch, you will still need a second amp to drive a second set of speakers.Some McIntosh pre-amps have the A/B switches. McIntosh integrated MA6400 and MA6500 can control 2 sets of speakers. 
300B vs. KT88 SET?
Marco, GREAT pictures - I hope you don't mind me looking there. Photography is my other hobby, Would you offer your professional opinion on some of mine http://public.fotki.com/brightonpic/my_favorite_shots/.Back to the main topic - I really appre... 
300B vs. KT88 SET?
Guys, thank you all for your great inputs. As you can see from my system - I don't expect any problems from the speaker's end, they are 98dB. My biggest concern is musicality, transparancy and blackness of the sound (absence of added noises). Am I... 
300B vs. KT88 SET?
Ctran, thank you for the reply. Did you have to change amps or you could switch 300B for KT-88 in the same amp?Sorry if it's a fullish question, but I'm new to this tube thing, and I do love musicality - my main music pleasures:jazz, vocals, class... 
How is current measured?
I will give you some examples how current is related to the power rating of the amp and to the speaker load. You can determin how much current (I) your amp can supply from the spec of max. Power (W) into specified load (R). W=I^2 x R. So if the sp... 
Cobalt cable theory on bi-wiring. Fact or fiction?
I just had to put my 2c in. To understand the benefit of the biwiring you have to realize that speaker wires are not ideal conductors and low and high frequencies have different effects on the wire.Low frequency signal carries most of the current,... 
WAF, Help, Need Strategy
This is how women's lib and all other issues are resolved in our home:Female is permited to work and to spend the money she earned on anything she wants.Male works and takes care of ALL the living expences. Whatever is left after that - he spends ... 
Best Orchestral Film Scores
Try Sakamoto for Bertolucci's "The Sheltering Sky". 
How many capacitors should I use and why?
The reason to use a small value bypass capacitor across a large value one, is that while in theory for "ideal" capacitors you add them together when connect in parallel, real capacitors work differently with different frequency. Like big value cap... 
Best Interated amp hands down.
Iamcrazy, Didn't you just get more than 20 answers to this question? There are people who like to do it, and people who just want to talk about it. Which one are you?:) 
Does an aftermarket power cord matters for Amp?
I became a beleaver in the benefits of a good PC not when I pluged it in, but 30 days later when I tryed to replace it back with the original one. 
How do iso. cones work and what are the benefits?
Try this little reading, it may help:http://www.topdogaudio.com/pages.cfm?ID=14 
In Heavy Rotation?
Laura Fygi (ony one of the 3 CDs)LA4Bob James w. David SanbornKeiko Ogura - STRADIVARIUS ON GOLD CDAndrea BocelliBeethoven (5,6,7,9)Mireille MathieuPat Metheny - ONE QUIET NIGHTRick Wakeman - COUNTRY AIRSBizet-Shchedrin - THE CARMEN BALLET