jasonbourne52
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| enough amplifier power A good rule-of-thumb is: 10X the average listening power. If you listen at an average of 1 watt then you need 10 watts for sufficient headroom. 2 watts needs 20 watts. 3 watts need 30 watts. 10 watts average needs 100 watts! 50 watts average needs... | |
| Rod Stewart-Never A Dull Moment I doubt it is worth much! Probably common in South Korea! | |
| Shanling SCD-T200 not reading discs Lasers have a finite life. Sooner or later they will need replacement. | |
| buget used amp ? dougm5740: that's a Crown XLS1502. It is an 8.6 lb powerhouse! If I didn't already have twenty amps on hand I might buy one to try on the DQ10's! | |
| buget used amp ? There are two Amber Series 70 amps available now on eBay. $325 + free shipping. $229.99 + $61.25 shipping. I own one myself! Outstanding SQ and able to deliver high current into low impedance speakers! An easy recommendation for you! Why pay more?... | |
| Speaker recommendations for Mac MA7900 Plus for less money the Tekton Moabs make the Cornwall's sound like Japanese Kubuki speakers! | |
| Speaker recommendations for Mac MA7900 Tekton Double Impacts - at around $3K they kill the competition! | |
| Amplifier brand/designer with the most unique and consistent “house sound?” Plus he worked on loudspeaker design at Rectilinear in Brooklyn! | |
| Amplifier brand/designer with the most unique and consistent “house sound?” James Bongiorno for his work with SAE, Dynaco, GAS, Sumo and SST! He designed some of the best SS amps ever: SAE MkIII, Dynaco 400, GAS Ampzilla, Sumo Andromeda and the Nine, SST Ampzilla and the Son! A record spanning four decades! | |
| Classical Top Five My two favorite composers, Bruckner and Mahler, definitely appear in the next five! One looking backward to Bach, the other presaging the Twentieth Century and Shostakovich! | |
| Classical Top Five I read a book once on this very topic! J.S.Bach was at the top! And a very persuasive case indeed was made for him! | |
| Classical Top Five I agree with tlayman18 that Haydn deserved inclusion in the Top Five. He practically invented the Classical Symphony - 104 of them, eh! | |
| Classical Top Five WAGNER UBER ALLES! The favorite composer of that notorious Austrian with the toothbrush mustache! | |
| Replacing tubes and caps Tubes are at their best right out of the box. They slowly decline with use and age. As the cathode coating is used up they weaken but will still work for a long time. There is no "break-in" - contrary to what the misinformed claim! A vacuum tube i... | |
| Classical Top Five FRANZ SCHUBERT! |