fsonicsmith
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| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Preamps are much easier and to me not so interesting as power amps.From the heart, I don't want to tease you out and set you up for some type of audio sparring, a form of website f-erism I despise. I respect you and am willing to do my best to li... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Hears what JA had to say in Stereophile.. The Audio Research Reference 75 measures well for a classic tube amplifier design with a single pair of output tubes for each channel and a modest degree of loop negative feedback. Its output transforme... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Roger, I have two questions though the second is a doozy. 1) What do you think of the Tungsol KT150?2) What are your top 5 criticisms of the ARC Ref series components (i.e. the Ref 75SE or Ref 150SE amp and the Ref 6 preamp)?I ask because I own an... | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner They sound better or worse because they are poorly designed or built regardless of drive,To put it diplomatically, you are naive. As with all other components in the chain, no amount of engineering can do away with the flaws inherent in recording ... | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner I find this discussion interesting since I ditched my belt drive VPI's for idlers-a hot rodded Thorens TD124 and a Garrard 301. When I owned my VPI Prime, I heard a distinct jump up in SQ with the Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Roadrunner, but aft... | |
| The Cartridge and Stylus makes a big difference. Been there, done that. The VPI unipivot arms are not a good match with Benz cartridges. That is just my opinion, naturally. I had a Classic and then a Prime and have two Benz Gliders which I used with both decks and then had them both re-tipped by... | |
| Advent loudspeakers This thread made me listen a bit more intently to my Large Advents yesterday and there is a quality that is not present in most current-era speakers; different bass instruments appear to emanate from different depths within the general area of the... | |
| Advent loudspeakers In 1977 while a Senior in HS I bought a pair of the "New Advents". I own them to this day. They are in my basement and I play them while working out. The surrounds have been replaced twice. The last go-round I used Van L Speakerworks in Chicago an... | |
| Any turntable / tonearm setup experts near Chattanooga / Knoxville Tennessee Robmag; you and Greg will hit off. You have a lot in common. Greg is a self-reliant kind of guy who repairs his own cars, home, you name it. He is 65 or so and looks like he can beat just about anyone's ass. But most important, he knows how to set... | |
| Any turntable / tonearm setup experts near Chattanooga / Knoxville Tennessee Not particularly close but 2 hours away is Greg Metz of Classic Thorens who is an expert on turntable set-up but may not be interested in setting up a modern era table-he focuses on vintage. You can find him on FB under "Classic Thorens". | |
| Devore Nines vs. 0/93's I highly recommend giving Don Better (dealer in Cleveland OH) a call. He will tell it to you straight. I bought my O/93's from him. I did not listen to the 9's. I love my O/93's. They are not perfect. They have compromises I am happy to live with.... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? You are like the guy who walked into the psychiatrist's office wearing nothing but Saran Wrap. I can clearly see you're nuts. | |
| Vintage Turntables compared to modern? I have ditched modern decks for vintage but with modern arms. I am using a totally hot-rodded Thorens TD124 mated with a 12" Reed 3P and I have a mint grease-bering ivory Garrard 301 being worked on with a 10.5 Reed 3P. The Thorens has a much more... | |
| Phono Stages with External Power Supplies...Worth It? fsonicsmith, I am surprised you would place the AR Ref6 above the Steelhead, but if you are a "solder slinger", like me, I can suggest some very small changes to the Steelhead that make it sound worlds better. Either PM me or indicate here if you... | |
| Phono Stages with External Power Supplies...Worth It? It all depends. With both preamps and phono stages, separating the PSU from the line circuitry is in theory optimal. Let me emphasize in "THEORY". This is because there are phono stages and preamps with built-in transformers and capacitors (PSU's)... |