chayro
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| Best tube integrated? anyone know? The Bada 222(?) from Pacific valve is very good. It's a hybrid 95 wpc. Smooth, powerful, detailed. Really nice and a 30 day trial. It's what I would own if I had to buy an inexpensive amp. | |
| Arcam CD23 FMJ skipping Replacing the entire transport is pretty easy if you can get one. It couldn't possibly cost too much. Good luck | |
| Music Hall 5.1 owners? Consider the Goldring Eroica MC. It comes hi or lo output and it works well with Pro-ject arms. It's actually pretty decent for the money. | |
| Any other AQ Dragonfly Early Adopters out there? I was looking at that - figured I'd wait a few months for the version 2 to come out. I just don't trust a first-generation digital product. | |
| SS or Tubes for Spendor S3/5? Perhaps a new amp is not what you need to achieve your sonic objective? I remember being amazed when a dealer showed me that everything I thought I needed a new amp to achieve, was actually realized through upgrading the preamp. It didn't matter t... | |
| Please help with Spectron Musician Issue. Don't walk away from the system. There are many very decent amps in the under 1K range you can use till you save up for something else. While I was in between good amps, I used an Onkyo 9555 (I think) and a Bada integrated and found them both very... | |
| Please help with Spectron Musician Issue. If Spectron can't fix it, I would doubt anyone else can. Sad to say, this may be one of the times to just cut your losses and move on. This has happened to me twice in my life - first was with a guy who does modifications. Sunk about $1K + expensi... | |
| DOGE 8 Clarity - Is it in the running, really? I can't speak for the preamp, but IMO, the Doge6 CD player competes with players in the 5K range in the areas of accurate portrayal of acoustic instruments, soundstage and overall "realness". I say this having owned several players in the 5K range... | |
| Linn Ittok lvii Mk. II upgrade to Origin Live or ? I would stick with what you have, as you refer to it as "excellent". Many people want a major upgrade, but then set an unrealistic budget for major improvements. What phono preamp are you using? I was using a Project Tube Box II and the upgrade to... | |
| album cleaning solution There are tons of discussions on record cleaning, but if you are just starting out, I would recommend you purchase a 16 oz. bottle of Nitty Gritty Pure2 fluid and use according to the directions NG provides. If they look especially grungy, I would... | |
| Is anyone interested some Sonus Faber Amatis? The best way to sell them would be to post a classified ad with several nice pictures. That could work. | |
| Audiophile 'Attitude' 08-28-12: TatersI also had an experience with David Weinhard. This was about 10 years ago when he owned Ambrosia. I was looking for a tube amp and he told me that tubes were garbage and that I should come aboard the 21 century. I recently looked a... | |
| Looking for Silent Fan Cooling f my ARC Tube AMP Vornado Zippi totally silent. I was using it when I was keeping a tube amp in a rack with somewhat limited shelf space. I had the fan blowing upwards over the top of the amp so the heat would blow out the side of the rack and not heat the upper sh... | |
| Unusual TAS bomb Any publicity is good publicity, goes the old show-biz maxim. | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced I had a set of those $800 Reimyo wooden footers. Got them here for a few hundred buck. Very nicely made and all, but I just didn't hear much value in them. Of course, footers are very component and system dependent, but they just seemed very overp... |